Well, I hadn't planned on it. But, I had a feeling that it would happen. I especially thought so after several hours of insomnia went by and I found myself watching a late-night episode of 77 Sunset Strip, an old Warner Brothers television show built around a hip, stylish-in-a-1950s-kind-of-way, detective agency that featured a newcomer named ( Read more... )

Mom's passing is still a big deal in my cosmology. Mom made an appearance in one of my dreams a few mornings ago and Dad was not to be outdone. This morning's dream took place in the hospital and, in fact, looking back at it, Mom's visit may have begun at the hospital also. What's clear is that there is a fine line in my unconscious between Mom's ( Read more... )

Well, it couldn't have come at a better time. I have been gloomy and morbid ever since the night she died, busily processing every bit of data from those last scary days in Room 251. I wasn't really done letting go of them until I had recorded every saline solution, every steroid packet ("to give her strength") every plastic bag hanging from her ( Read more... )

I successfully seeded a dream the other night so it should have come as no surprise that at some time or other I would also have a dream about the last person I see five nights a week - Raymond Burr - the actor whose eponymous character, "Perry Mason" has been a mainstay of the geezer channel for the past two years ( Read more... )

Well, I was wondering when the other shoe would drop. Katharine Hepburn stopped by for a visitation about two weeks ago and i was wondering when I would hear from her long time partner -- Cary Grant? You thought I was going to say, Spencer Tracy, didn't you? No, it turns out that one of the most enduring friendships in Hollywood -- during their ( Read more... )

I had a visitation from Katharine Hepburn last night. She came back as a tweeny-something, about seventeen or eighteen, if i had to guess. OMG, was she hot ( Read more... )