Compound Interest

Egypt International Skydiving Festival, Giza. Reuters photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh:

RIP Teri Garr, 79, who succumbed to a long battle with MS. Born in Ohio to show biz parents, she had an endearing offbeat quality despite being pretty. She studied at Stella Adler’s studio. Her career began as a chorus girl in Elvis Presley and Shirley Maclaine films. She danced in five of The King’s movies before her first speaking role, Head (1968), starring The Monkees. She did a lot of TV, most notably Star Trek, as a semi-regular on The Sonny and Cher Show, M*A*S*H, Frasier, ER, Friends, Law & Order: SVU. There are 159 titles beneath her name at IMDb, career spanning 1963–2011. She was in eleven episodes of Good & Evil, 13 of Good Advice, twelve of Women of the House, ten doing a voiceover on Batman Beyond, and she did numerous guest shots on popular prime time fare besides the shows mentioned above. She was in a lot of commercials: Safeguard soap, Fruit of the Loom panties, Band-Aid, TWA, Diet Pepsi, to name a few. She was a fun mainstay on David Letterman’s shows. On the big screen she appeared in The Conversation (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Oh, God! (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Stallion (1979) and its 1983 sequel, Mr. Mom (1983), After Hours (1985), Tootsie (1982), for which she received an Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress. She was a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society’s Women Against MS program. She was married briefly, three years. She was mom to an adopted daughter. An awesome run. Thanks for the laughs, madam. Photo from Google Images:

To Quid Pro Joe, approximately half the country is garbage. Remember when we were being told he was fine cognitively… Also on the political front, it’s amusing that several Dems have aligned with DT in campaign ads. Is there anything phonier than a politician?

Read it and weep, fellow New Yorkers. Headline from nypost.com: “City’s a ‘Tren’ wreck: Migrant gang Tren de Aragua and ‘associates’ racked up 517 NYC busts this year: sources.”

Hope on the medical front out of the UK. From NYP: “Engineer’s ‘aggressive’ tumor shrinks by 50% in just 6 weeks after first-of-its-kind experimental trial.” According to the article by Jacki Thrapp, an implant was placed under the scalp and injected with radioactive material once a week.

From NYP: “USA Today and 200 other Gannett-owned newspapers not endorsing presidential candidate.” Recall that in 2016 Hillary got all the press endorsements to Trump’s zero.

Headline from newsmx.com: “Tracker: More Than 51M Early Votes Cast So Far.” Wow.

I find the following headline from foxnews.com very amusing: “Elon Musk reportedly buys compound for his 11 children, their mothers.”

Ho-hum, another gorgeous day. The Anti-inflation Book Shop was misnamed today, as the trade was all in other stuff. My thanks to the gentleman who donated three primo CDs; and to the beautiful young woman who bought a Batman 3D piece for her son; and to the young man who purchased two of the large pieces of art; and to the Lady Eve, who took home costume jewelry earrings. I did not comment on the Harris sticker she was wearing — and I don’t think she’s garbage. She’s a fine person.

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