Well, dear readers, I shall have to hurry and scurry because she of the Evil Eye will soon be here. In addition to that, a new exterminator will be arriving momentarily to deal with the dead something-or-other because I can no longer stand the fact that I cannot enter my bathroom without wanting to vomit on the ground. This company’s expertise is finding dead animals lodged into impossible places, so I’m hoping they can deal with this, get the smelly thing out of there and spray the awful odor away. I shall keep you posted, of course.
I’ve been having extensive conversations about this here site with our very own Mr. Mark Bakalor. It seems we have grown so popular with the populace that we must move to the next step, server-wise and size-wise. I, of course, am against any change whatsoever, but we must do this, because it is the shape of things to come. This is going to impact the site in one way and that is the way in which we post. However, we’ve had long discussions about it and I think everyone will be very happy with what we’ve come up with. Basically, the look and design and feel of the site will not change. The home page will have more menu options so you can find things more easily. The notes will appear as they always have. At the end of the notes there will be a new Unseemly Button and that will take you directly to a message board for the topic of the day. All the topics of past days will appear there, although once each day’s topic has expired you won’t be able to do additional posts. Our board will look similar to the sondheim.com boards, but with much simpler options. Basically, there will only be the current day’s topic and posts, plus special threads for whatever I think might be interesting, such as a KISS MY ASS thread – that way people who are not interested in such things don’t have to look there. Threads will only be able to be started by me, so that is definitely unlike the other board. So, it’s going to be exactly the same, with just an additional step to get you to the current day’s topic and whatever posts there are. The archive for everything prior to the change will still be available for your mental delectation. The other site functions, such as chat, the journal, interviews, book and DVD purchasing, will all remain unchanged. But, the best part of our new deal will be that the messages will be password protected. You will all receive passwords and you must have a valid e-mail address to get one. That way, our Uncouth Interlopers and the Piglets from other boards who might want to disrupt us will have a much harder time. It’s not that they won’t be able to open a hotmail account and get a password, but once they do their nasty deed I’ll not only be able to remove the post if it needs removing, I can remove them as well. That’s something we’ve never been able to do heretofore. So, the change will take place sometime in the next few weeks. The other good news is that because we’re growing upwards we will be able to now have the archives for all Donald’s radio shows. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because she of the Evil Eye will be here at any moment, along with he of the Evil Rodent.
I had the occasion to watch my Partridge Family episodes in advance of doing the interview. My goodness, did I ever have such hair? I had hair, dear readers, and I do mean hair, large curly long hair. It isn’t until the final episode (the one on the cruise ship) that I have a nice haircut and I finally don’t look so geeky as I do in the early episodes. And, may I just say a word about the flowered shirts and the stretchy pants? Again, in the final episode, I either wear a tux, a nice jacket and slacks or my own bell bottom jeans and nice shirt. My favorite costume in that show is the colored tights and pantaloons – I kid you not. And may I just say a word about how thin everyone was? I know I weighed all of 137 pounds back then (with a 30 waist) and David Cassidy and Susan Dey were thinner than me. Shirley Jones was thin. Everyone was thin. Gee, I do hope we weren’t sending out the wrong message to anyone. There was one episode that I had absolutely no memory of having shot. In any case, what a sweet show The Partridge Family was. Funny and wholesome and a little skewed, too. I loved doing the show and they treated me as if I were part of the Family. I’ll let you know when the interview runs.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must leave and do errands and then I must return and relax and do some of the book additions and then perhaps I shall have a lovely dinner. Today’s topic of discussion: We’ve done this long ago, but we have so many new dear readers, it might be fun to do it again – what are your favorite classic 50s, 60s and 70s TV shows. Let’s have loads of lovely posts, shall we? I’ll be checking in quite often as soon as the Evil Eye and the Evil Rodent have removed themselves from the premises.