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Four days ago I heard Jo Stafford’s “You Belong to Me” as a Pandora QuickMix selection. I was so impressed with her singing that I published this post:

Pitch-Perfect

Then today, while listening to Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out from a couple of weeks ago, I paused about 45 minutes into the show. With a Rory Gallagher track on the phone, I went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.

Returning to the porch I put down the tea and checked my laptop. YouTube was suggesting a video from a month ago. Well, whadda ya know, it’s by a young guy who is obviously delighted with Jo’s singing of “You Belong to Me” and, by coincidence, he’s wearing a Rory Gallagher t-shirt. He shows exactly how well Jo could sing both on-key and deliberately off-key.

Empathy with Mimi for 11/22/63

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Mimi Alford, née Beardsley

Then, at two o’clock P.M., another bulletin, this one official: The President was dead… My head was flooded with images of the President the last time I saw him, just seven days earlier, in the Carlyle. He had hugged me and said he’d call me when he got back from Texas… What sent me over the edge was the image of Dave Powers with his hand on the casket, standing in front of it as if he were guarding the President, then lifting it with other aides into the waiting Navy ambulance… My tears turned into violent, racking sobs…

– Intimate JFK friend Mimi Beardsley

Tapped Out

I’ll get a jump on next year’s 40th(!) anniversary of one of my two favorite comedy movies, This is Spinal Tap.

My other favorite laugh-filled movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is scheduled for limited release in theaters only on December 3. Wait, no. It will be shown again on December 6. But that will be the absolute last time. Never again to be repeated, not ever!

Go Fund Her

You don’t know Larry Blamire’s The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra?? You will… oh, YOU WILL!

I am very cautious when supporting GoFundMe campaigns. You’re giving money to someone outright, with no strings attached. When Larry Blamire announced this campaign on behalf of Jennifer “Animala” Blaire, my only hesitation in making a donation was the time it took to recover from reading the story behind her troubles.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/animala-needs-help-actress-jennifer-blaire

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Jen as Animala in, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra Returns