Grim Reaper Knocks a Third Time

Death comes in three's. Don Knotts, Darren McGavin and now Dennis Weaver - all in one weekend - and as George Noorey pointed out on his 'CoasttoCoast' overnight radio show last night - all to people who's first names started with the letter 'D.' .... Somewhere in Hollywood, you just know that Eli Wallach, Elvis and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. are all watching the front door with a nervous eye. Hey, is Ed Asner still alive? Someone should warn him.

He Stalks the Night Nevermore

As Hollywood and the rest of the world reels at the loss on Friday of chicken-boned ghost-investigator Don Knotts, comes word that fellow Night Stalker of the paranormal Darren McGavin also caught a cab that very same day. Age 83. The gruff but loveable McGavin, in addition to being seen umpteen times a year as the gruff but loveable Dad in The Christmas Story - had one of his best roles in the ABC Movie of the Week from the early '70s Tribes, in which his tough by-the-books marine boot camp drill inspector character looked the other way when hippie Jan-Michael Vincent went go a.w.o.l. ... Sadly, my DVD of the Night Stalker pilot arrived mere days before McGavin's passing, leaving him no time to spend the residuals. Hopefully, he's presently someplace on the receiving end of "a major award" - in the form of a table lamp shaped like a fish-net stockinged woman's leg.

Sonny Drysdale Presents

Sonny Drysdale Presents Barnard P. Fife - R.I.P. ---- Don Knotts caught a cab Friday night, February 25th. Age 81. Apparently he's going to be buried with a single bullet in his shirt pocket. Know how I'm gonna mark his passing? Go home. Have a nap. Go over to Thelma Lou's to watch a little TV. ... That's what I think I'll do. Gonna go home. Have me a little nap and then over to Thelma Lou's for a little TV. .... (Yawn,) Yep, that's the plan. Going home .... Don would have wanted it that way.

Is that all there is?

So - all I wanted to do was post a message on someone else's blog about Batman vs. Captain Picard. Pretty easy you might think - but noooooooo, you have to have your own blog first. And only then can you respond to that whole Superman vs. Kirk debate. Look you fat-cats in your grey flannel suits in blog.spot.land - if I wanted the world to know my every thought, I'd be out at the corner of Dundas & Richmond screaming them at the top of my lungs. ... Anyways, apparently now I have my own blog. Geez, maybe I shoulda used my own name.