Hollywoodland

THAT is probably the most used excuse on the planet. LOL!!!

I have a dental appointment this afternoon. Time to get the teeth cleaned again. Boring. Hope they don’t find anything else that needs to be fixed.

Can you believe August is more than half over??? How did that happen???

Tonight on TV, we have the mid-season finale of Ghost Hunters International and new episodes of Psych and Chasing Mummies.

Reading: I took a break from The Million-Dollar Suitcase last night and read The Blue Envelope by Roy J. Snell instead. Snell wrote a bunch of adventure/mystery books for boys & girls around the turn of the last century and into the 1920s.

That’s how I feel about blogging sometimes. Like today!

But, hey! It’s my possible cousin Mae West‘s birthday! She would have turned 117 today if she was still alive.

Tonight on TV, we have new episodes of Wipeout, Warehouse 13, White Collar and Memphis Beat.

Reading: I started a mystery ebook from 1921 last night. The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan.

But I suppose that works as an excuse too. *g*

Today in history:

• 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day. He is only the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game. The first was Doc Powers in 1909.

• 1930 – The first color cartoon with sound was Fiddlesticks. It was made by Ub Iwerks.

• 1954 – The first edition of Sports Illustrated was published.

Tonight on TV, we have new episodes of American Pickers and Rizzoli and Isles. I’ll also be watching last week’s R&I which I missed thanks to the dude tearing down the power lines. *g*

Reading: Now I’m reading Nan Sherwood in Palm Beach. This is the last of this series.