Catherine O'Hara (1954 - 2026) [This post just requires tags.]

     It is with sadness I woke up today, only to learn of our having lost Catherine O'Hara, one of my favorite comediennes since I first learned of SCTV back in 1979. 

     She will join the ranks of her fellow Second City and SCTV alumni who have gone on ahead of her: John Belushi, Gilda Radner, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Tony Rosato, Robin Duke, and Joe Flaherty

 

     Here's what I posted on my Facebook today:

    "Just learned the sad news of comedienne Catherine O'Hara's passing, here seen in the foreground, downstage of fellow actress Andrea Martin, in one of my favorite SCTV skits, the infamous parody of Ingmar Bergman, titled 'Whispers of the Wolf'

 

 

Post script: Today, I no longer laugh..."

 

     Later in the day, I able to locate the aforementioned skit on YouTube. Hopefully, copyright won't impede its upload to this post. Otherwise I might have to see if I can re-upload it to my YouTube account and link to it there. Here goes. 

 

 

 

 

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Iced. [This post just requires tags.]

In less than a month.

 

 

Keith Porter Jr

Keith Porter Jr. Murdered by an off duty ICE officer just minutes prior to the New Year, December 31st, 2025

 

Rene Nicole Good

Rene Nicole Good. Murdered at point blank range in her SUV, January 7th, 2026

 

 Alex Jeffrey Pretti

Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Pinned to the ground and shot in the back some dozen or more times. 

These are the current deaths to say nothing of the more that have already died at ICE's hand.

 

A Year and Ten Days Out [This post just requires tags.]

    Nothing special. 

    I just happened to notice the calendar date my sister spontaneously had the front yard trees once again addressed: a year and ten days after last January’s task. (See: January 5th, 2025’s post).

Opportunistic

"Live Long and Just for Good Measure..."* [This post just requires tags.]

Happy New Year!

 

;-)

 

 

*This post was created, on the spot, as a good-natured response to Jörg's first comment to Mano Singham's 'Hope for the New Year' post on Freethought Blogs. [On a side note: I am going to try once again for four posts a month. Hopefully, I will end 2026 with a totality of forty eight blog posts; not forty four (2024) or fifty (2025), but a symmetrical forty eight!]

 Oh and as to my hopes for the new year… Typically, under Trump's despotism, we illegally invaded Venezuela less than twenty four hours into it. Hell, even before the new year struck, an off-duty ICE officer would murder Keith Porter, while another ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, would kill at point blank range, Renee Nicole Good eight days later!