Sad to hear that Alan Sues passed away. And, like Art, I’m surprised to hear that he was 85. Then again, I’m surprised when I hear how old I am. While most know Sues from Laugh-In, my favorite is his 1964 portrayal of “Junior” in the Twilight Zone episode, “The Masks,” which takes place during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was the only TZ episode directed by a woman – the great Ida Lupino. Junior’s mother was played by Virginia Gregg, who was in pretty much everything ever done by Jack Webb including (of course) Dragnet, Adam 12, and Emergency. “Grandfather” is played by a guy named Robert Keith, who you probably never heard of (though you might recognize him if you saw him – he was one of those character actor kinda guys), but who was Brian Keith’s father. If you don’t know who Brian Keith was, well, then I really am getting too damn old.

Speaking of getting too damn old, today is my sister’s birthday. In her honor, I stayed in bed until, like, 7:30 this morning (up late, watching movies; my stepdaughter was here with her husband, but, sadly, they left this morning). In a freaky coincidence (known as “math”), she (my sister, not my stepdaughter – though her birthday was a few days ago, and she’s getting pretty goddamn old, too) was born in 1951, and is therefore 60 today, while I was born in 1960, and am therefore 51.

It’s hard to believe my little big sister hits the big six-oh this year. This must mean all her hot friends who I had crushes on when I was, like, six years old (I developed an appreciation for females at quite an early age. I recall this student teacher in third grade named Miss Le Freight…. :hubba: Oh baby. I’m not sure I knew what, exactly, to do, but whatever it was, I sure did wanna do it) are old now. Too bad. Though maybe they’d throw me a little something for old time’s sake.

We watched “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” last night. Very well done. I give the guy a lot of credit. He didn’t make any excuses, pull any punches, or fake cry or any of that other bullshit (and it’s interesting how much of what we “know” about his, um, extracurricular activities are actually made up bullshit). He sure did stick it to Wall Street every chance he could, and a lot of these unbelievably wealthy people hated his f*cking guts. Damn shame somebody like Vitter can stay in office, but Eliot had to go. I wish he coulda just paid a fine and moved on. The only thing I really fault him for was his selection of Lt. Governor Blinky.

Thanks to Web for the link to the Maron e-mails. It’s a testament to how much he’s changed in the past six years (not that I actually know him, of course, but he sure did get pissed and obsessed over e-mails and the MS show blog back in the day) that he didn’t tell the guy to f*ck off, which is what I was waiting for.

Hell, I wanted to tell the guy to f*ck off.

It’s a winter wonderland out there today. Not a lot of accumulation, but a dusting of snow to go with the sub-freezing temperature has everything all white and frosty. I guess I should probably bring all the hoses in.

Oh yeah, and Save Eureka!