Well, not bombs. Fireworks. I loved ‘em as a kid, but now… not so much. Especially since we’ve had little to no rain for the last two or three months. I just hope if the idiots shooting off fireworks around here last night set any houses on fire, it’s theirs and not somebody else’s. Though we got a little rain this morning. So we shall see. But I fear this next week is going to be a long one…
Found out last night the neighborhood we used to live in near St. Louis, Missouri is currently underwater. 
Not for the first time, though it never flooded when we lived there, thank goodness. But I feel so sad for all the people there (and in Iowa and Illinois and elsewhere) that have lost everything because Mother Nature is in a royal snit.
Amy, actually Irving Thalberg was told when he was younger he’d die young because he’d had rheumatic fever as a teenager and it weakened his heart. He had a heart attack when he was just 25! Can you imagine? So, yeah, I guess stress had something to do with his death, but if he’d been healthy to begin with it might not have been so hard on him.
Marianne, I hate when you find out stars aren’t as “nice” in person as they seem on TV. I don’t like being disillusioned. I was less than impressed with Donny Most of Happy Days. Though I suppose, being charitable here, celebrities can have bad days the same as anyone else. 
Kacey, Davy Jones is apparently still kicking and singing, etc. He’ll be in St. Charles on July 17th at the Ameristar Casino. 
He also has a stable of race horses.
Dru, Thalberg was somebody. Even though most people have never heard of him nowadays, if you always watch the Academy Awards, you’ll hear his name one in awhile. He’s got an award named after him. It’s awarded periodically to “Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” And he was quite famous in the 1920s and 30s. But he was a very modest man and never allowed his name to appear in movie credits. He was quoted as saying, “Credit you give yourself is not worth having.”
The only thing on tonight is more track & field Olympic trials. After that, I’ll be watching more research stuff. Oh! And speaking of race horses, there’s some horse racing on this afternoon, too. So I’ll be watching that, too.
Reading: The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn. I bet modern Hollywood stars would like to murder some members of the papparazzi. 
Sheesh. Now, granted, they probably meant you should pour water on them or something. But they didn’t say that!
His star shined bright but fast. He died at age 37 of pneumonia.