Sunday Sept 19

   It is Sunday morning, and it's NFL, NFL, NFL ... apart from an American Legion District 2 meeting from 1400-1500 at Post 7 (they have TV's). Hilda is dressed and ready. I am, sort of (I have on one piece of apparel ... a t-shirt). I am on the computer and watching  ... what else, the NFL. Arizona's Cardinals are losing, Hilda's Packers are winning, Dean's Ravens are losing, and my (and Sheryl's) Vikings are losing, but playing pretty well.
   Well, must get dressed ... Mama says so. talk to you later.

                                                       Today's birthdays (I pick out the ones I like) include:
Actor, writer and host of 'Inside the Actors Studio', James Lipton in 1926 (age 84) ... One of my favorite interview shows ever
 
Baseball Hall of Fame member Duke Snider in 1926 (age 84) ... great player, Tucson trivia .. we have 2 guys in Post 36 called 'Duke' Snider. It was a really popular moniker in the 50's-60's.
 
Singer Brook Benton in 1931 ... one of my mom's favorite blues/pop singers, "It's Just a Matter of Time, Endlessly, and Rainy Night in Georgia".
 
Actor Adam West (TV's Batman) in 1928 (age 82) ... he got typecast as Batman and never did much else afterwards, but then agin, he wasn't much of an actor
 
Actor David McCallum in 1933 (age 77) ... he played the Russian heart throb in The Man from UNCLE. His wife Jill Ireland left him for Charles Bronson. He and his current wife Katherine McCallum are active with charitable organizations that support the United States Marine Corps: Katherine's father was a Marine who served in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and her brother lost his life in the Vietnam War
 
Singer/songwriter Paul Williams in 1940 (age 70) ... great songwriter, he wrote a number of hits for Three Dog Night (including "An Old Fashioned Love Song", "The Family of Man", and "Out in the Country"), Helen Reddy ("You and Me Against the World"), and The Carpenters, most notably "Rainy Days and Mondays," "I Won't Last a Day Without You", and "We've Only Just Begun", which was originally a song for a Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds. Most people probably recognize him as "Little Enos Burdette" in Smokey and the Bandit
 
Singer Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers in 1940 (age 70) ... I mean, really, is there anyone who doesn't know the Righteous Brothers? Or ... Bill Medley (he's the baritone, Bobby Hatfield was the tenor)
 
Singer Mama Cass Elliot in 1941 ... to my mind, one of the greatest voices during her era. If she had been as slim as Michelle ... she would have become a mega star.
 
Singer Freda Payne in 1942 (age 68) ... I really liked her song "Band of Gold", and I know that her younger sister  Scherrie Payne was a member of the Supremes.
 
Actor Randolph Mantooth in 1945 (age 65) ... probably best known as John Gage, a paramedic, on the show "Emergency!" in the 70's.
 
Model and ??actress?? Twiggy, whose real name is Lesley Hornby, in 1949 (age 61) ... that makes all of us who grew up in the 60's feel really old ... right??
 
Country singer Trisha Yearwood in 1964 (age 46) ... good singer, but probably best known as Garth Brooks' main squeeze.

Gotta' go Ms H is looking.

1745 MST: Bret Favre LOST, Hilda's Packers WON BIG TIME, brother Mickey's Cowboys LOST, Dean's Ravens LOST, Carolina Panthers LOST, Carol Stensby's Packers WON, the Arizona Cards lost BIG TIME, my Colts are playing (the Giants) in the "Brother Bowl" as I type ... Eli vs. Peyton. There is no joy in Mudville, unless (like me) you are anti-Cowboys.
    The day went reasonably well, the meeting was longer than it should have been, ... but that is the way meetings go. We are watching the NFL. But Ms Hilda wants to watch a movie in a bit. And (like Lola, whatever Hilda wants ... Hilda gets), you know that tune.
   Well, brother Peyton's team killed Eli and the Giants.