On a hot day like today, Purgatory was a cooler place to be! Purgatory Chasm, in Sutton, MA, that is.
Who will live to 100? Glorious Gloria Stuart!
Researchers here in Boston claim to have identified genes that indicate who will live a long life. There’s no doubt that actress Gloria Stuart has these genes, because today is her 100th birthday!
We’re all young once…
The story I recall reading long ago in an old issue of CREEM magazine that I can’t find at the moment went something like this. Debbie Harry was spotted at CBGB’s by some fashion biz type from a slick magazine or a big modeling agency. He walked up to her, handed Debbie his card, and said, “Be there at 10 tomorrow. Name your price.” Debbie, who by then was already nearly thirty, and who had previously worked as a waitress and a Playboy bunny, threw the card away.
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Happy 65th birthday to the one and only Debbie Harry, icon and role model, who has my vote as the #1 most important female music talent of her era.
The Black Widow?
My lack of worldliness and poor political acumen are leaving me perplexed. Why would the Russians consider this woman to be a good candidate for training as an alleged spy? What made them think she could possibly be able to gain access to the private quarters of influential men? Here’s another picture of her I found, training in Russia.
That Ringood feeling
Here’s a minute of what we were doing tonight… seeing Ringo! Hard to believe he’s about to turn 70.
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A Kink kicks
Since returning from North Carolina I’m trying to get caught up on things I missed, and I’ve just learned that the Kinks’ original bassist, Pete Quaife, has died. How did all of these guys who were in their 20’s in the 1960’s get to be in their 60’s?? Don’t answer that!
