Tuesday Toot

Anyone surprised that Quid Pro Joe is trying to rig the Supreme Court on his way out, as elections have been rigged by mail-in voting?

Headline from nypost.com: “‘Ready to paint me?’: Long-lost Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry discovered in Delaware, going up for sale for potential millions.” Photo from NYP/Google Images:

RIP actress/singer Erica Ash, 46, who succumbed to cancer. Born in Florida, she was an Army brat, traveling extensively with her parents, who were both in the service. She was a graduate of Emory University. Adept at comedy, there are 40 titles under her name at IMDb, career spanning 2001-’24. She was in 13 episodes of MAD TV, playing Raven-Symone, Whoopi Goldberg, Condoleeza Rice, among others; 19 of the fictional Real Husbands of Hollywood; 36 of Survivor’s Remorse; ten of In Contempt. On the big screen she appeared in Scary Movie V (2013), The Big Bend (2021), Singleholic (2022). On Broadway she was in The Lion King. A lovely presence gone way too soon. Photo from GI:

Excerpt from an NYP editorial: “…the latest Gallup poll, ‘just 23 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats — the lowest number in the poll’s 90-year history.’” Maybe they’ve made the leap to socialist or communist, which brings us to: headline from foxnews.com concerning Minnesota Gov Walz: “Potential VP pick downplays horrors of socialism at event for White Dem men, gets ripped.” And in Philly: “Hundreds of people seen marching with communist flags on Philly streets.” May they all crawl out of the woodwork, show themselves, and allow the undecideds if that’s the way America should go.

RIP author Francine Pascal, 92. Born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, she earned a degree in journalism from NYU. She wrote articles for Cosmopolitan, Ladies’ Home Journal, Modern Screen and True Confessions. She also wrote for the soap opera The Young Marrieds and was co-creator of the Broadway musical George M! Her first novel, Hangin’ Out With Cici, was adapted into an ABC Afterschool Special, My Mother Was Never a Kid. At the suggestion of a friend, she created the Sweet Valley High series of young adult novels. She wrote the first seven herself, then oversaw a team of ghostwriters. It continued in numerous iterations until 2003 and was briefly revived with the novel Sweet Valley Confidential in 2011. Pascal later developed other work, including the Fearless series, Save Johanna! and The Ruling Class. She wrote the novel If Wishes Were Horses, a work focusing on her marriage and widowhood. Married twice, she had three children with her second husband, who passed away in 1981. Well done, Madam. Facts from Wiki, photo from GI:

A refreshing breeze made the Anti-Inflation Book Shop a joy today. My thanks to the two ladies who donated a bunch of interesting titles that may be tough sells despite their quality, and to the gentleman who bought Russian translations of Danielle Steel and Nora Roberts; and to the Haitian woman, Trump supporter, who purchased War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz, Dreams of My Russian Summer by Andreï Makine, and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever.

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