Thirty years ago today
My daughter and I played games on my new computer, like Doom, Descent and Fire and Ice until her mother picked her up.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Monday, 28 September 2026
September 28, 1996: I bought my first computer
Thirty years ago today
On Saturday morning my landlady Marjorie’s boyfriend Andrew drove me to the International Centre in Mississauga for the CompuFest Computer Show. I had asked for his help in finding my first computer since he worked at IBM. He guided me through picking what he thought was the best package. I got a PC tower, though I don’t remember the brand, but when I look through computer images and names from that year, Compaq Presario sounds and looks familiar. It came with Windows 95 and some game samples like Doom, Descent II, and Ice and Fire. It came with one of those big clunky monitors that also had speakers, a keyboard and a mouse. We brought it home and Andrew helped me set it up. A printer didn’t come with the package but I still needed one and I wanted to get online.
Later Nancy brought our daughter to my place to spend the weekend and True and I enjoyed playing the new games, especially Doom.
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Charo
On Thursday after midnight I was running the lint roller over the curtains between the bedroom and the living room to catch bedbugs when the wooden bracket that holds up the right end of the curtain rod fell off. Inside the wall where it had been attached was a bedbug nest. I covered the hole with carpet tape to trap the monsters inside and then I propped up the right end of the rod with a camera tripod. I finished lint rolling the curtains, the top of my bed, and my pillow. I shook out my top sheet and the comforter on the deck and went to bed around 2:05. I didn’t sleep very well before the alarm went off at 5:00. After yoga I didn’t find any bedbugs around my bed.
I finished translating “Les bienfaits de la pratique” (The Benefits of Practice) by Boris Vian. Since there’s no audio and I can’t work out the chords, tomorrow I’ll just post in on my Christian’s Translations blog and then move on to the next Vian song.
While I was typing a yellowjacket was landing on my keyboard and I paid close attention so my hands didn’t get too close. Later though I put my left hand on my leg and I guess the yellowjacket had moved to that spot and I got stung on the inside of my pinky. It really hurt.
I worked out the chords for three-quarters of the first verse of “La fille aux claquettes” (The Tap Dancing Girl) by Serge Gainsbourg. I should have that and maybe the chorus finished on Friday.
I weighed 90.75 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the second of four sessions and it went out of tune on every song. My little finger still bothered me while I was playing but not enough to impede my chording.
I weighed 91.35 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride and on the way back stopped at Freshco where most of the grapes were too soft but I managed to find one bag of firm red ones and two of the green. I also bought bananas, a pack of blueberries, half a brown sugar ham, a small tub of I Can’t Believe It’s not Butter, a jug of orange juice, a large can of Full City Dark coffee, some two-in-one shampoo, and a lint roller. I price matched the grapes to Walmart’s price of $6.47 a kilo.
I weighed 91 kilos at 18:40.
I was three days behind in my journal and worked on catching up.
I cut up a whole chicken into legs, wings, breasts, and spine and grilled the parts. I had a leg with a potato and gravy while watching a video of Carol Burnett Show Show Stoppers from 2001.
It starts with short clips of bloopers. Like one where Carol says, “I said to myself, Blossom Butterworth” then she pauses and repeats the start but obviously has forgotten the line so she says, “You’ve had it, Carol Burnett!”
Carol comes out to the same stage where her show was filmed to a live audience and a standing ovation.
She takes questions from the audience. Someone asks Carol how she would like to be immortalized. She says she’s having a rose named after her.
A guy named Scott says he’s been in love with her since he was small and one of the sexiest things she’s ever done is the Tarzan yell. Carol says, “You think the Tarzan yell is sexy? Are you all right?” She does it for him.
Carol says she has Harvey, Vicki, and Tim with her and then starts a song about what a perfect team they were. “With our golden throats we hit all the notes” then she shows clips of them fumbling their songs. Vicki goes off key; Harvey loses his note on “King of the Road”. Carol continues that “Nothing could break up our perfect team” and then shows several clips of sketches where broke up.
Carol says most of the clips they’ll be showing have never been seen.
There’s a clip of Harvey and Tim cracking up during an Old Man sketch, then Carol brings Harvey and Tim out. Tim shuffles out very slowly in his old man wig to a standing ovation.
Someone asks if they always did the series live. Tim says, “A couple of us were dead at the time.”
They show the clip of Tim playing a superior officer drumming Harvey out of the service and it’s the first time Tim used the accent that would later be that of Mr. Tudball. The accent causes Harvey to crack up. He tells Harvey he left his men in a ditch to get knots on their heads “while you went into town to sing. I like to sing myself but there is a time for singing and there is a time for duty. When you’re on duty you shouldn’t sing.” He starts on listing places he can sing and then the clip stops.
Carol, Harvey, and Tim are now sitting down. Referring to the clip, Harvey asks if anyone could have stood up to that kind of torture? He says he tried and he’d even lie awake nights thinking of ways to get Tim but he’d always turn it around.
Harvey shows a clip where Tim got himself. It might be a parody of Jaws. Tim tells a story of how he lost a girlfriend to the sharks. He says they were in a sailboat off Hawaii when she tried to swim to shore. She’d have made it too if…” Tim starts to laugh and totally cracks up as he says, “She’d have made it if she hadn’t been wearing her lucky ham!” Harvey says they had a betting pool all week on whether Tim would get through it.
Carol says she got Tim once when he was playing a man pretending to be a mannequin in the window, Carol comes out in a housecoat and dances like a stripper in front of Tim. Then she opens her coat and he starts laughing. She turns to the camera to show she’s wearing prosthetic breasts. She also got him in the sketch where she’s giving him a sponge bath while singing “You Light Up My Life” but she also cracked up.
Carol brings out her mother, sister, and friend, Vicki Lawrence.
An audience member asks for Vicki’s origin story again. Vicki asks, “Doesn’t everybody know this story?” Carol says she’ll tell it anyway. Tim sits down and Harvey wanders off and shouts stage right, “Could you order me a tuna fish sandwich on rye?” Tim and Harvey sit on the couch while Carol continues the story. Tim asks Harvey, “Do you use Viagra?” Harvey answers, “That would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building!”
Carol shows the famous scene when Mama is insulting Eunice’s sanity and ad libs some that crack Carol up. Then she shows a clip of the other insults that never aired from the same scene: “I think you done sprung a leak in your dingy! Is it yer time of the month or somethin?” Eunice is turned away to laugh and Mama grabs her to say, “Look at me!” before Mama cracks up too.
There’s another family sketch when they are playing Sorry and Mama is supposed to say, “gosh dern” but she says “God damn”.
They show the clip where Tim is improvising a story about Siamese elephants joined at the trunk. Eunice tries to move on to mama’s line when Mama says, “You sure that little asshole’s through?” and everybody falls to the floor laughing.
Vicki’s first character that she developed for the show was the high voiced bimbo. She asked Harvey, “How come when I play her I’m stupid for the whole week?” Harvey answered, “Any character you do well is truly a part of you.” To which Vicki responded, “Then how come you’re so good in drag?” She says she never got an answer but Harvey now puts on an effeminate voice and says, “I haven’t the faintest clue!”
They show the first time Harvey ever appeared as Mother Marcus in the As the Stomach Turns soap opera parody. Carol as Marian is sitting with Marcus and she reaches over to squeeze Marcus’s big boob. Then Marcus says, Turnabout is fair play” and reaches for Carol’s boob but Carol turns away and says, “If you can find it!”
They show a clip from when Charo was a guest on the show and Carol played Charo’s mother in a similar skimpy costume but with sagging and swinging breasts. Carol says Bob Mackie would put raw rice in the boobs. Vicki remembers having a whole rack of different sized boobs fitted for her in the costume department: “Small, medium, large, little push, medium push, over the top push, down to the knee, raisins, no raisins…”
They show a clip where Carol says she’s going to go down the pier and fish for sea bass” but she pronounces it like “bass guitar”.
In a commercial parody Harvey plays a minister being served something by Carol as an elderly housekeeper or wife. Harvey says he doesn’t want it because it tastes fishy’ She shoves some in his mouth and he says, “It doesn’t taste fishy! I wonder why!” Carols says, “It’s a veal cutlet you asshole!” Then in the next take Harvey says, “This doesn’t taste fishy asshole, I wonder why!” In the next clip Harvey says, “It doesn’t taste fishy, I wonder why!” Then the crew shouts in chorus, “It’s a veal cutlet you asshole!”
They show a clip of Tim as the old man in an out of control electric wheelchair. It’s supposed to go out through the window but after several tries he just stands up and shuffles through.
They show the clip of the old man sketch in the butcher shop with Tim behind the counter and messing up Harvey’s order. Harvey was a nervous wreck because Laurence Olivier was in the audience. Harvey’s pants were supposed to fall down and when your pants fall down in a sketch you are supposed to wear boxer shorts but Harvey forgot to and wore briefs instead.
There is a clip of Carol dressed as her character Stella Toddler and she strips down to the padded undergarment and the swinging breasts to show what goes into a sketch.
Carol has Bob Mackie wave from his seat.
Carol and Vicki dance and sing a song called “The Mackie Rag” describing costumes that make you feel like a queen, or slightly obscene, cute as can be. Vicki sings “You’ve seen some hot mamas but you never seen a Mama like me”. “Formal, informal, or drag (and they show Harvey the fairy godmother Markus) Wonderful or wacky, elegant or tacky, gimme gimme gimme, gimme a Mackie rag”. They bring Bob on stage. Then Tim comes out in drag and struggling in platform shoes to kiss Bob’s hand.
Carol sings the full version of her theme song. Thetn the cast and Bob come out and stand together to join arms as usual and sway from side to side as the music plays and the credits roll.
Charo’s native language was Spanish but she also spoke Italian, French and English. She started playing guitar at the age of 9 and at 14 she won a scholarship to learn guitar from Segovia. She was discovered by Xavier Cugat when she was 16 and he brought her to the US. He later married her. She won a court case proving that she was born in 1951 but that would have made her 15 when she married Cugat at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. She was the winner of the Guitar Player Magazine poll of Best Flamingo Guitarist for two years in a row. Her trademark phrase “Cuchi Cuchi” came from her talking to her dog Cuchillo. Later she would say it and wiggle her hips. She said, “Around the world I am known as a great musician but in the US I am the cuchi cuchi girl.” She made her film debut in New Friendship in 1963. She made her TV debut on the Danny Kaye Show in 1965. She co-starred in Tiger By the Tail, Thumbelina, In the late 60s and 70’s she made frequent appearances on several popular shows such as Laugh-In, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat (ten times), Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, and The Mike Douglas Show, which she co-hosted at least once. She was a semi-regular on Hollywood Squares. Her son Shel Rosten played drums for the heavy metal band Treazen.
September 27, 1996: I bought my first electric guitar
On Friday I went to the annual Long and McQuade sale where I bought my first electric guitar. I got a beautiful vermillion Kramer with the Floyd Rose tuning system. I didn’t know anything about the Floyd Rose but just thought it looked cool. It was complicated getting in tune initially but once it was in tune it stayed there for weeks. I also bought a Roland Jazz Chorus-50 amplifier.
I played it that night on the Spit Fridays open stage in the back room of the Cameron and some people said the electric was a better sound for me than my acoustic.
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Frances O'Connor
On Wednesday after midnight I put fresh carpet tape on the edges of my mattress where the old tape had gotten less sticky. I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room and caught several bedbugs. I went to bed around 1:48 and pretty much slept until the alarm went off at 5:00. After yoga I found several bedbugs caught on the tape on the floor at the head of my bed. I also caught one on the curtain.
I translated about half of “Les bienfaits de la pratique” (The Benefits of Practice) by Boris Vian.
I worked out the chords for the instrumental intro and some of the first line of “La fille aux claquettes” (The Tap Dancing Girl) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 91.35 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since September 15.
I played my Martin during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time.
I took several photos and dead and alive bedbugs and sent some of them by email to the city bylaw officer Jamal Logan. He got back to me in the late afternoon and said, “Thank you for providing me with this. I’ve moved forward with issuing a property standards order that will be mailed out the following day, allowing 30 days for compliance from the property owner.”
I weighed 91.95 kilos before lunch. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of lemonade.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 91.2 kilos at 18:25.
I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on getting caught up.
I made pizza on a slice of 7 grain sandwich bread with marinara, tomato pesto, a chopped New Zealand grass fed beef burger, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching season 2, episode 6 of Wednesday with my daughter Astrid on Discord.
The show opens with Wednesday putting on makeup and donning a bright coloured outfit with a mini-skirt, then dances happily through the Nevermore campus while posing for smart phone cameras. I said to Astrid this extremely uncharacteristic display of brightness and exuberance must be a dream. She thought it might be a shape shifter posing as Wednesday, but we would find out later that we were both wrong.
13 hours and 16 minutes earlier, Wednesday is in Principal Dort’s office with Sherrif Santiago, Enid, and Wednesday’s parents Morticia and Gomez Addams. The issue being addressed is the attack by Tyler Galpin in his Hyde form during the Day of the Dead celebration. Wednesday reminds Dort that she warned him about Tyler. Francoise Galpin, Tyler’s mother, had also appeared in her Hyde form but Morticia talked her out of attacking and made her promise to leave Jericho with Tyler. She assures Dort and Santiago that the Hydes are now gone from Jericho. Dort institutes a school curfew.
Wednesday is still without her psychic powers. The ghost of former Principal Weems is Wednesday’s spirit guide and she tells Wednesday she won’t get her powers back until she resolves her issues with her mother and with her own emotions.
Wednesday learns from Professor Orloff that Francoise had a brother named Isaac who was a DaVinci and who designed Orloff’s robotic life support system. He tells her that Isaac died in a lab explosion and is said to be buried under the Skull Tree. Wednesday realizes that Isaac is the corpse that her brother Pugsley accidentally brought back to life with his electrical powers and took as his pet zombie, Slurp.
Francoise and Tyler are hiding out in an underground bunker. She has Tyler chained to his bed and plans to become his new master. But she is coughing blood sometimes and reveals that Hydes do not live long.
Professor Capri visits Enid and addresses the phenomenon of her having turned into her werewolf side when there was no full moon. She explains that she could be that rare type of werewolf known as an Alpha.
Wednesday visits her Grandmama and asks for a way to get her powers back. She tells her to the grave of former Nevermore Professor Rosaline Rotwood and if she reads aloud the inscription she will be granted temporary psychic powers. Wednesday breaks curfew to find the headstone but while she is there, Enid learns that Professor Capri is doing dorm checks. If Wednesday is discovered missing then Enid will also be punished and she’ll miss the gala, so she goes after Wednesday. Meanwhile Wednesday reads the inscription and is transported in her mind to the spirit realm where she meets Rotwood (played stiffly by Lady Gaga). Rotwood shows her a candle flame and tells her if she can keep her hand on it for a certain time she will be granted temporary sight. She is baring the flame without flinching when suddenly Enid arrives and grabs her, cutting her contact with the flame. Both Wednesday and Enid collapse on the graveyard grass and wake up in each other’s bodies.
Wednesday goes out in Enid’s body and is grabbed from behind by Enid’s lover Bruno but Wednesday flips him with a judo toss and sternly warns him not to try it again.
Enid, in Wednesday’s body tries to continue with her colourful life but breaks out in hives because Wednesday is literally allergic to colour. Morticia notices this and provides her with the remedy she is supposed to be taking for her affliction. Enid has to agree to come to an Addams Family dinner.
Meanwhile Isaac finds the underground bunker where his sister and nephew are hiding. He tells Francoise he can cure her of being a Hyde but needs the right equipment.
Enid, in Wednesday’s body discovers Wednesdays novel and discovers that a character in the book is based on her and made ridiculous. She is offended and decides to get revenge by humiliating Wednesday in public and that’s where we came in.
Wednesday, in Enid’s body discovers that Bruno is cheating on her and breaks up with him.
Thinking Wednesday is Enid, Professor Capri tells her that she has to spend the night at the Lupin Cages so she can safely transform into a werewolf.
Thing attends a support group for separated appendages. He says he doesn’t know where he came from. He was found by the Addams Family with the only key to his past being a signet ring.
At the Addams Family dinner, the ghost of Weems appears to Morticia and reveals that it is Enid and not her daughter sitting at the table.
Isaac enters Orloff’s lab and reclaims the power source from Orloff’s robot body. He then eats Orloff’s brain so a great mind will not go to waste. He takes the power source and goes with Francoise and Tyler back to Willow Hill to reactivate the burned out machinery, while Agnes invisibly follows them.
Enid in Wednesday’s body finds Wednesday in her body at the Lupin Cages and tells her that she’s learned that if they don’t switch back by dawn then they will both die. Agnes calls Wednesday to tell her that Isaac, Francoise, and Tyler have gone to Willow Hill. Tyler detects Agnes, captures her and locks her in a cell. When the switched Wednesday and Enid arrive, Tyler captures the one he thinks is Enid and places her in a cell. But Wednesday transforms into a gigantic black Alpha werewolf and smashes free of the cell and even Tyler is no match for her. She doesn’t have time to do harm to Tyler because the lab is about to explode and so everyone escapes.
The switched Wednesday and Enid return to Rotwood’s grave. They touch it together and share the things they’ve learned about each other while in each other’s bodies. Enid admires Wednesday’s fearlessness but also realizes that she fears she is too dark for even her mother to bear and fears being rejected by Morticia like she did her sister Ophelia.
Wednesday says she admires Enid’s quiet strength. She knows Enid fears being an Alpha will render her solitary but Wednesday vows she won’t let that happen. The girls collapse and wake up back in their own bodies.
Weems appears before Wednesday and tells her that the premonition of her causing Enid’s death has been broken but in her place an Addams must die.
Francoise is played by Frances O’Connor, who earned a BA in Literature from Curtin University in Western Australia and graduated from the Western Australia Performing Arts Academy. She made her TV debut in the Australian series Law of the Land in 1992. She made her film debut in Love and Other Catastrophes in 1996. She starred in Kiss Or Kill, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Mercy, She co-starred in A Little Bit of Soul, About Adam, The Lazarus Child, Picadilly Jim, Go, Mansfield Park, Bedazzled (her first Hollywood film), A.I., The Importance of Being Earnest, Timeline, Book of Love, Iron Jawed Angels, Blessed, Jayne Mansfield’s Car, Little Red Wagon, The Truth About Emanuel, Three Dollars, The Hunter, The Conjuring 2, She co-starred in the series Cashmere Mafia, She co-starred in the BBC series Mr. Selfridge, The Missing. She made her film directorial debut in 1922 with Emily, which she also wrote.
Michele Lee
I started translating “Les bienfaits de la pratique” (The Benefits of Practice) by Boris Vian.
I finished translating “La fille aux claquettes” (The Tap Dancing Girl) by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but no one has posted them. AI suggested some that work but it thinks the song is in the key of C while I’m hearing F.
I weighed 90.95 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Kramer during song practice and it stayed in tune most of the time.
I rode up to Yonge and St Clair to get a haircut at Top Cuts. My stylist Amy was just finishing up with a big guy whose head and face she’d just shaved. Apparently he’d been very difficult before I arrived and had screamed at Amy to demand that she clip his nose hairs. He’d insisted on a soap and razor shave, which they don’t have facilities for because it’s not a barber shop. From what I could gather another customer with a Scottish accent had given him money for his cut but now she regretted it. He wanted more done but they said he was finished. He only had thirty dollars though the bill was about $45. I could tell by the way he moved that he was developmentally challenged. After he left, the other customer paid the difference on his bill. One of the hairdressers said she could have done him damage if there hadn’t been witnesses. I assume she means she knows martial arts.
I asked Amy to cut the sides shorter than before and to keep the front long. But when she was done the side still wasn’t as short as I wanted it. I didn't push it because she'd had a hard day.
I had been scheduled to meet with Brian Haddon for lunch at The Crown and Dragon after my haircut but on Sunday he canceled because he was worried about getting bedbugs. I had assured him I would take precautions and that the chances were low but he doesn’t want to get together until my place is bedbug free. That pissed me off because it could take years and it hurt that he didn’t trust me to be careful.
I weighed 91.1 kilos before lunch at 15:40.
I took a siesta and got up at around 18:00.
I weighed 91.5 kilos at 18:15.
I was a couple of days behind in my journal and worked on getting caught up.
I had oven fries, pork ribs and a glass of Creemore lager while watching The Carol Burnett Show 25th Anniversary Special.
Carol comes out and does a song about her first opening for the show 25 years ago, how she felt and what she did and makes fun of how awkward she was.
There’s a clip of Carol with Ronald Reagan when he was governor of California taking questions and someone asks if he’d like to live in Washington, D. C. Reagan says he can’t understand anyone wanting to live anywhere but in California.
A guy named Cary who as a teenager asked if he could come up and give Carol a kiss is now in the audience 15 years later and asks if he can come up again. They show the clip of how nervous he was and Carol saying she’d be gentle. After she kissed him back then he said he was going to faint.
Carol brings out Harvey Korman.
She shows a clip of Tim Conway as a soldier trying load a cannon but drops the ball down his pants. He can’t get it out so he just puts his crotch where the ball is against the cannon and signals to fire.
Carol brings out Tim then she brings out Vicki Lawrence. Tim says of Vicki, “Out of all of us, who would imagine that she’d be the only one that’s still working!” Harvey says, “I was sucking up to the wrong person all those years!”
Carol shows a clip of Lyle Waggoner as the Marlboro man looking cool as he lights up and then having a coughing fit.
They show several clips of cast members getting hit over the years.
They show some clips of movie spoofs I never saw such as From Here to Maternity in which Steve Lawrence and Carol are on a beach making out when a big wave hits them.
Pillow Squawk is a parody of Pillow Talk with Carol parodying Doris Day.
Carol, Harvey, Vicki, Lyle, and Tim sit on chairs on stage and take questions from the audience.
They show a clip from the butcher shop sketch in which Tim accidentally pulls Harvey’s pants down and he’s wearing briefs, having forgotten to wear boxers. He was particularly embarrassed because his idol Sir Laurence Olivier was in the audience.
Carol shows the clip of the horse that relieved itself behind her when she was singing. Tim says he was also peeing during that song.
Carol says Vicki’s daughter Courtney is at Stanford now.
Carol points out her three daughters in the audience.
They try to get Tim’s kids to stand up and they show them sitting but a black guy stands for fun.
There are clips of Carol singing with Ethel Merman, Liza Minelli, Perry Como, Rita Hayworth, The Pointer Sisters (singing “Salt Peanuts” while dressed like one of the sisters), and The Carpenters.
Carol shows how Vicki transforms into Mama with no makeup. Just the wig, the glasses, the padded dress, and the frown.
There’s a clip of Harvey singing in Spanish drag with very large breasts and castanets.
Carol has the chorus from her show take a bow and then the dancers. She gets Bob Mackie to stand up, calls him a genius, and wonders why he doesn’t get any older. She gets the choreographer Ernie Flatt and the assistant choreographer George Foster to stand up.
Carol comes out as the Charwoman again and sings her goodbye theme song while a few more clips of guest stars roll, such as Wayne Rogers, Dom DeLuise, Jack Palance, Penny Marshall, Sally Field, and Michelle Lee.
Then Carol slips into some high heels, strips off the charwoman’s rags and has an elegant sparkly gold suit on. She sings a different goodbye song. Then Vicki comes out and it’s a duet. Then Harvey sings the song with her. Then Lyle, then Tim, who talk-sings and then jokingly sings in a dramatic way. Then they all hold hands and sing it together. They go into the audience and shake hands with people while still singing. They return to the stage and Carol says goodnight to them. They each go through a different doorway, except Carol stays behind and starts singing the song alone again. But the others come back out to join her to her disappointment. She herds them all back through their doors while still singing.
Michelle Lee acted in plays in junior high school and in senior high she became the lead singer for the school band. In her very first audition she got the part. She made her TV debut in 1961 on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Before graduating she made her Broadway debut in Vintage 60. Soon after that she began doing guest performances on popular TV variety shows such as The Danny Kaye Show. She made her film debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 1967 after having co-starred in the play on Broadway. She co-starred in The Comic and The Love Bug.
She had a minor hit with the song “L. David Sloane”, which reached #52 in 1969.
She was nominated for Tony Awards in 1974 and 2001 for her performances in Seesaw and The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife. She starred in all 344 episodes of Knots Landing (for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award) and directed nine episodes, She was the first woman to co-write, produce, direct, and star in a TV movie: Colour Me Perfect in 1996. She wrote the bestselling autobiography My Father Was a Blackbelt.
September 26, 1996: I bought a motorcycle jacket and a leather jockstrap
Thirty years ago today
On Thursday I went to Northbound Leather and bought a motorcycle jacket. I also bought a leather jock strap.
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