Saturday, February 15, 2025

Age and Aging and Ed Asner

It should be said that fifty (!) years ago, many of us watched the first episode of "Saturday Night Live."  Though we enjoyed it, and stuck with it for many years, it's unlikely any of us thought it would still be on the air now.  George Carlin, bless him, my favorite non-academia Sociologist, was the host.  

I'm teetering on the edge of a really bad cold.  Ears stopped up, nose stopped up, sneezing.  Let me amend that: SNEEZING.  The sort of thing that makes you want to snuggle up under quilts and sleep and be cozy and have tissues at hand.

(Except it isn't snowing here.  That would be ideal.)

My current read is 

 It is a delight.  I always adored Asner, and, yes, I agree with his positions, so I was pretty much guaranteed to like this.


4 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

sorry you've a cold! What a misery. Enjoy the read!

Araignee said...

I've been a faithful SNL fan all these years. Whenever there is a live show, I treat myself to a little bag of chips, a diet soda and a handful of Twizzlers while I am camped out on the couch for the night. It's been my ritual for as long as I can recall. I'm looking forward to the anniversary tonight. I really enjoyed the music special last night.
Feel better soon!

Kim in Oregon said...

Feel better soon! I got to watch a taping of SNL long ago--we sat in a special room for friends and family of the cast and I don't remember anything about it except the musical guest was Leon Redbone. I think it was in the Eddie Murphy days. Off to google.

Kim in Oregon said...

I'm guessing it was this one, with Bruce Dern, and I'm guessing I had no idea who Bruce Dern was. http://www.snlarchives.net/Episodes/?19830312

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