Y2/D313...Sunday

I kind of did absolutely nothing today, outside of dabbling at the beginning of the fantasy novel I'm trying to write. It now has foot notes and Gaelic.

Don't.

I know it's tempting.

But just don't.

You know who you are. ;-)

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Is it just me? Or does it seem like over half my generation's father's are dying of Alzheimer's? Hugh Jackman, who is 53, just lost his father to Alzheimer's. His wife is 13 years older than him, which I found interesting. He was born in 1968 and she was born in 1955.

He's among the few film actors out there that I still adore and have not been decimated by social media's gossip train.

Oh, the Ellen DeGeneris like on FB was actually a scam. There are scammers on FB. I reported it. Unlikely they will do anything. But I find it via Snopes. Here is the link to Snopes outing the scam. I'm tired of this.
I've blocked the page.

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There's this great quote I found in a contemporary romance novel of all places.

Because there is no way an introvert and a criminally picky eater can go to a dinner party and come out alive."

Each time the stupid doctor tells me to cut something out my diet, I think...okay are you intentionally killing what is left of my social life?

I remember when I was diagnosed as gluten intolerant.

Doctor: What's wrong?
ME: This is going to kill my social life.
Doctor: Are you one of those people who lives to eat?
Me: Yes, although that's hardly the issue here.
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Just finished watching the filmed adaptation of the Broadway Stage Musical Dear Evan Hansen, which is depressing. It tries to be uplifting, but it doesn't quite accomplish it. ( Read more... )

Random Picture of the Evening

Memory Lane - 1970s..

1. I finally figured out the name of this old adventure movie that I saw in 1976, as a kid. It had a scene in it where the characters were being eaten alive by mosquitos in the Florida Everglades, and took place in the 1800s, after the Civil War. For a long time, I thought I'd dreamed up this movie. I don't remember anything from it but the portion in the Everglades.

It's called Treasure of Matecumbe based on a 1961 novel by Robert Louis Taylor entitled The Journey to Matecumbe. It starred popular Disney child actor, Jimmy Doran, Billy Attmore, Joan Hackette, Robert Foxworth, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Robert Donqui, Dick Van Patten, and Jane Wyatt.
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2. As a child, around the age of 11 or 12? I had a huge crush on Ike Eisenmann. He played Tony in the Escape from Witch Mountain films in the 1970s, and was in Fantastic Journey with Roddy McDowel, along with various other films and television shows in the 1970s.

He's long since retired from film, and became a major vocal effects consultant, then a writer.

Here's the podcast on all the Witch Mountain films.. Ike Eisnemann interview on the Witch Mountain Films.

My childhood 1970s film/television boyfriend crushes were in no particular order?

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