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by mg at 10:04 AM on July 13, 2004
What in the hell has happened around here? Everyone, self included, seems so damn serious, and so frickin’ humorless. We should all be happy. It seems as if everyone is in such a bad mood and is ready to snap faster than the girl picked by producers of a reality TV show to be "the bitch" character. We shouldn't be fighting, we should be loving each other, like a barrel of gay monkeys.
I mean, in the past couple months Anna has bought a new house. After nearly a decade, Snaggle has graduated from college. Linz is moving in with her man. Ezy has married his woman. I’ve had a kid! (*please insert your good news here, I haven’t forgotten you, but my carpal tunnel is hurting, and I can’t type for long stretches. You know who I’m talking about now.)
So why all the bad vibes recently? Oh, sure, it’d be pretty easy to point fingers and cast blame, some of us have been pretty good at that recently. But who cares? I don’t. I’d rather just move on with this ugly period of BS history. I'm ready to get started on the next era, what several months from now I hope we’ll all look back fondly on as the time of "Good Times" times.
Speaking of Good Times, Isabel Sanford died last week. Sanford was best know for her role as Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson, on the 70s TV show The Jeffersons. Hell, lets be honest, she is known exclusively for her role as Weezie from The Jeffersons, though some of you younger folk probably just know her as the old lady in those Old Navy commercials. No, not the old lady with the big glasses, the fat, black old lady with a voice like a two for one special on cartons of cigarettes.
Speaking of Jack Klugman’s gravel throat, Sanford’s death completes the second piece of a dead celebrity trinity, with Klugman’s Odd Couple co-star Tony Randal being the first. If we ignore the deaths of actual celebrities Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, and that Regan guy, then we should expect one more washed-up 70s TV star to perish before the moon is once again new. Or something.
Who do you think will be take the bronze metal in this trio of dead B-celebrities? I know it is morbid, and potentially cruel to speculate on such matters, but maybe that is exactly the sort of meaningless task we need to break the tension around here. So, who is your pick?
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My guesses would be Harry Morgan (MASH), Red Foxx (Sanford and Son), Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jeff Conaway (Taxi), or possibly Shirley from What’s Happening.
by mg at July 13, 2004 10:07 AM
"Who do you think will be take the bronze metal in this trio of dead B-celebrities?"
YOU!
Oh, and congrats on the pup.
by Joseph at July 13, 2004 10:09 AM
You have a point there MG. The mood has been a little serious here lately. Maybe we're all going through adversity in other areas that is perpetuating this? Maybe. We do need to have ourselves a love in from here on out. Here's a hug for you all.
My guess would be Red Foxx. Shit, that man was old when Sanford & Son was in its heyday. That will be a sad, sad day though.
by Ezy at July 13, 2004 10:23 AM
The mood has been a bit edgy here lately. It was becoming a little uncomfortable. Maybe we're all going through some sort of adversity, in our lives, at the same time? Maybe. We do need to make this the love in it was in the past though. Group hug!!
I would guess Red Foxx. Hell, that man was old when Sanford & Son was in its heyday. That will be a sad, sad day though.
by Ezy at July 13, 2004 10:30 AM
How the hell did that happen!? I commented the first one, got an error so I wrote another and now the first one is back. Hmmmmmmmm.
by Eay at July 13, 2004 10:32 AM
If it helps any, I got a new apartment and a new bed. My kitten hates me, but that's old news.
by Jen X at July 13, 2004 12:08 PM
I don't know why that happened Eay, I just thought you were trying to get the words just right.
Thanks Josef. As one of few people in my age group with a child, and the only one I know with a boy, perhaps you and I should get planning on that arranged marriage between Owen and Franny now? At this point, that'll probably be the closest I'll ever be to actually getting with your sis-in-law. Its definitely the closest chance you'll have of getting with me.
by mg at July 13, 2004 12:11 PM
Oh MG, how you flatter me. I never even thought it was an option. I had no idea you wanted the sis-n-law and me. Very cool. If I wasn't clear above, I consider you one of the few B-celebrities I know.
Do you have any goats to offer my son?
by Joseph at July 13, 2004 2:30 PM
Three things:
1. I think that group hug is a very good idea *hugs everyone*
2. Why are images of that Simpsons episode where Apu gets married dancing around in my head?
3. I thought Ted Knight was already dead. Didn't he die of cancer or something like that?
by Lucy at July 13, 2004 4:22 PM
Screw you all!
BTW- My votes are for: John Ritter (Threes company), Michael Landon (Little House on the Prarie), and William Katt (Greatest American Hero).
by Eviltom at July 13, 2004 5:43 PM
We love you too Evil One.
by Ezy at July 13, 2004 6:14 PM
Hey... not a decade, just 6.5 years....
And plus, who ever read a happy book? You always have to have characters overcoming adversity... that's what makes for good reading.
by snaggle at July 13, 2004 6:23 PM
Does it have to be from an old sitcom? I think that David Spade from whatever it is he is on isn't long for this world. He just seems so frail and fragile. And the odds are great on a young guy like him in the death pools. I just wish I'd seen River Phoenix coming. Oh wait, that didn't come out right.
by anna at July 13, 2004 7:14 PM
Oh and MG, not to jump around like a gay monkey in a barrel, but I am pretty happy with the new digs. I walk around with that old U2 lyric in my head: "I don't care about money but you should see where I live." It's old and little rudnown, but it's our old and rundown.
by anna at July 14, 2004 7:41 AM
Tom: That was the second "Greatest American Hero" reference I'd heard in a day. Weird. I remember it fondly, but not well. I wonder if it is out on DVD?
by mg at July 14, 2004 1:22 PM
Redd Foxx and John Ritter are already dead. Just for clarification and accuracy
by Teach at July 14, 2004 2:08 PM