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Well, here I am out in the desert again... with nothing much to blog about. Maybe something will happen today interesting enough to report about.
Maybe.
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WORDs FOR TODAY
evil
adjective
bad; immoral; wicked; harmful; injurious.
pure
adjective
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind;
free from foreign or inappropriate elements:
free from blemishes.
The term "pure evil" is often defined as "doing bad things just for the sake of being bad" but I disagree. I see combining evil with purity as being impossible since opposites will not naturally coalesce. This would be analogous to attempting to merge matter with anti-matter.
I believe that the term "pure evil" is nothing more than a simple oxymoron.
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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Born Jan. 6, 1944
Age: 68 years old
Bonnie Gail Franklin is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of divorced mother Ann Romano on the television situation comedy
One Day at a Time (1975-1984).
Born Jan. 6, 1912
Died Feb. 6, 1991
Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor and producer, whose career spanned five decades. Thomas was best known for starring in the television sitcom
Make Room for Daddy (also known as
The Danny Thomas Show). He was also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas, and Tony Thomas.
Thomas became a successful television producer (with Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Spelling among his partners) of
The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and
The Mod Squad. Thomas also produced three series for Walter Brennan:
The Real McCoys, The Tycoon and The Guns of Will Sonnett on ABC during the late 1950s and 1960s. Thomas often appeared in cameos on shows he produced, including his portrayal of the tuxedoed, droll alien Kolak, from the planet Twilo, in the
Dick Van Dyke Show science-fiction spoof, "It May Look Like a Walnut."
Thomas was responsible for Mary Tyler Moore's first "big break" in acting. In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The
Dick Van Dyke Show after Thomas personally recommended Moore. He had remembered her as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier, but rediscovered her after a lengthy search through photos and records.
Born: Jan. 6, 1930
Died May 25, 1990
Victor "Vic" Tayback was an American actor. A life member of The Actors Studio, Tayback was a familiar face on television in the 1960s and 70s, appearing on numerous shows as a character actor. Two notable appearances were in the
"Et tu, Archie?" fourth season episode of
All in the Family as Archie's old friend, Joe Tucker, and as the alien gangster boss Jojo Krako in the
Star Trek episode
"A Piece of the Action".
Tayback's most famous role was diner owner Mel Sharples in both the 1974 movie
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and in the television series,
Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985.
Born Jan. 6, 1880
Died Oct 12, 1940
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. Between 1909 and 1935, Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He was Hollywood's first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.
In April 1898, during the Spanish-American War, he enlisted in the Army under the name Thomas E. (Edwin) Mix. His unit never went overseas, and Mix later failed to return for duty after an extended furlough. Mix was listed as AWOL on November 4, 1902, but was never court-martialed nor apparently even discharged.
In 1933, Ralston-Purina obtained his permission to produce a Tom Mix radio series called
Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters which, but for one year during World War II, was popular throughout most of the 1930s through the early 1950s. Mix never appeared on these broadcasts, and was instead played by various radio actors.
I remember well listening to the Tom Mix show on the radio when I was a sub-teen.
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
--Frank Sinatra
