Red Left Paw

Somehow our beloved Ralph managed to get Jen's palette off of the refrigerator and also got enough plastic off to step in the bright red paint. She gave us a total heart attack when we walked into the house after being gone for a week and finding red all over her little white paw!

That dastardly Ralph, trying to get back at us for being gone.

Up on the hilltop where the vultures perch, that's where I'm gonna build my church

I took advantage of my in-laws' satellite dish to watch several hours of Game Show Network, much to my MIL's dismay. I do believe her question was, "Why on earth are you watching those old game shows?" but I just can't help it - 1970s game shows are like crack to me. I could watch hours of Match Game 78 if it happened to be on. Thankfully we don't have GSN at home.

But dear gods, Charles Nelson Reilly was one fruity man. And Jm J Bullock on Hollywood Squares, too. They are quite possibly the two gayest specimins I have ever seen!

It's amazing to me how far we've come as a society, even though I'm always ranting about everything. To think that men like CNR and JJB, not to mention Liberace, could exist as gay icons but in this sort of pseudo-secret to the American viewing public. Nowadays at least we have the ability to complain about the portrayal of queer characters on television - that there are some to even discuss is progress... let alone enough to compare and contrast.

But I tell ya, Will and Jack, Brian and Justin, that boy on Dawson's Creek... they ain't got nothing on Charles Nelson Reilly in his big 70s sunglasses and his frickin' /ascot/.