An old SCTV episode: Jane Airhead, with Mr. Rochester played by Mr. Rochester from the even older Jack Benny show. (Mr. Rochester was Joe Flaherty in blackface...late 70's maybe)
A wonderful book "Author, Author" by David Lodge is about the life of Henry James. It's fiction, but based on actual events. Constance Fenimore Wilson is a central character--I knew I'd seen her name before!
SO GLAD to have this as ammunition the next time I get into a fight about this book. There have already been several. Also glad that I didn't pay full price for it. I'm not even giving it to anyone I know, it's going straight into Little Free Library box.
Dang, I was hoping the word after "If Stephen Colbert were your..." was going to be "boyfriend", not DAD. In the wrong demographic for him to be my dad, but the right one for a boyfriend. Rather, gentleman caller.
I've never seen any of the Rambo movies but, if he'd been black, my mentally ill white brother would have been killed by the police way before he died of a heart attack in his 40's.
a nursery rhyme to teach your baby: "Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? oh no said Merricat you'll poison me. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? down in the boneyard ten feet deep!" As kids, my siblings and I all read Castle and went around chanting this.
That is a wonderful book! I've never before met (or written to) anyone else who has read it.Thanks for the link to the NYTimes review.
I should have mentioned that, like the Bobbsey Twins, two little women were upper middle class. Working class 15-year-old girls would certainly not have had the privilege of being coddled little children.
As a kid, I picked up a book called Two Little Women, published circa 1910. I confused it with the REAL "Little Women" but read the whole thing anyway. Very interesting depiction of what 15-year-old girls did back in those days--they were little children! (I recognized that even at age 10). While roller-skating, the two crashed into each other, one broke a leg, the other broke an arm. They were bedridden for months. The leaps forward in health care in 100 years!
Frozen eggs. Sitting on cold concrete will freeze your eggs (Ukrainian theory)
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