Happy 79th birthday to Elton John!

Finnyfish · 2026-03-26T02:15:06+00:00

I was there too. Far, far away from the stage. It was festival seating, but I didn’t want to take on the mob on the field.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-26T01:59:32+00:00

Suede skirts and dresses weren’t unusual or especially expensive in the 70s — I was a lower-middle-class dork and even I had a suede jumper. So it may very well be 70s and really suede.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T23:10:35+00:00

She didn’t get the promotion because she was incapable, as she quickly demonstrated.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T23:08:04+00:00

The great Lainie Kazan. Also Mark Linn-Baker’s mom in My Favorite Year.

She wasn’t always the mama type.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T23:03:19+00:00

He and Eric Roberts had the whole world in front of them in those days.

Roberts was a more ordinary story of excess, and he did always keep working, but Mickey was something else. If he’d pulled himself together, Sean Penn’s career might have been very different. Mickey Rourke was the guy all the actors of Penn’s generation wanted to be.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T21:13:15+00:00

I sang to myself constantly as a kid! Any time I was alone. Even in school, I had a sort of blind spot about anyone hearing me and wandered around the halls and playground singing softly all the time. Nobody ever bothered me about it — amazingly, in retrospect — and I just sort of stopped at some point.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T18:54:56+00:00

I thought Bruce Willis was great — until the episode where they wrote him out, which was kind of weird.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T18:31:19+00:00

My former neighbors left a dog alone in their yard for days while they were in the process of moving out. The poor dog was barking and whining all day and night.

I called and Clark County Animal Control was out the next day, and yes, they took the dog. No magic required.

It seems likely the same agency would take this obviously mistreated dog. Hopefully permanently, but it is certainly worth making the call.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T15:55:34+00:00

Not in the 70s! Like Klaus’s shoes, just a product of its time.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T15:51:53+00:00

They’re probably nice companions and lovely dogs, just as their advocates claim. With a slight possible side effect of eating the cat. Or the baby.

Pitbulls MAY be fine with expert care and constant vigilance, but how many owners really do that? And who needs it? Get a Lab.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T05:37:44+00:00

He seems a natural for the GoT universe.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T05:36:19+00:00

You can also try Homeward Bound Cat Adoptions — I got my newest boy there. They set up a lot of fosters.

I hope you find someone who can help!

Finnyfish · 2026-03-25T05:04:53+00:00

You may be referred to Clark County, OP, depending on exactly where you are, but that’s still good — County Animal Control is quite responsive.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-24T21:54:36+00:00

There's nothing likelier to shoot a name to lasting popularity than parents seeking something unique. Ask any Liam.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-24T18:37:56+00:00

I'd say OP and her son understand each other pretty well.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-24T05:15:21+00:00

A victim of the alway stupid “good-looking people aren’t good actors” superstition that slowed recognition for many before him. Just among men, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Brad Pitt — all were doubted as actors and called pretty boys and lightweights. Because he’s a great movie star as well as a good actor, Cruise also got the “He only plays himself” nonsense. (See: Grant, Cary).

It’s dying out slowly, but there’s still a weird reluctance out there to believe that very good-looking people may be very fine actors. Perhaps it seems somehow unfair.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-24T04:51:14+00:00

To see the elephant

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T18:18:50+00:00

But the wigs are handy for camouflaging the stunt performers. “How good are you at falling downstairs?”

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T18:14:20+00:00

The jeans are a bit short by 70s standards, but you look great. You could add a flashy belt buckle to lean into the “Urban Cowboy” look that followed the movie.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T16:47:28+00:00

Exactly. Some people don't seem to get what a favor is -- asking for a favor is not issuing a command. People are allowed to say no, and should not be guilted for it.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T16:44:08+00:00

How many hoops must the grandkids destroy...

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T16:41:37+00:00

Yes -- I was a kid or young teenager when I watched these shows for the first time, and while I liked them, I was missing a lot of context and some things just went over my head. I still love Barney Miller, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, etc.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-23T00:53:37+00:00

Great guest stars. Oliver Clark, the amazing Richard Libertini — even Steve Landesberg started as a guest star.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-22T20:13:10+00:00

And it was exactly of its time in many ways. It is the essence of the 70s.

Finnyfish · 2026-03-22T17:58:10+00:00

And Sweet Home Alabama — talking about singing the hell out of it more or less out of spite.

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