Happy Birthday Betty - Most Visited Page on this blog

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For the first ten days of 2009, Thinks Happen will feature the most visited blog pages of the two blogs, Thinks Happen and Lost Gallery. This will be in Letterman style, least-to-most, with the most visited page on January 10. Isn’t that exciting? Here's number ONE! From April 22, 2007, the most popular page on the two blogs is ... Speaking of Icons; today is the birthday of Bettie Page; the greatest Pin-Up of all time. The mystique of her influence and style, her look, thrives today. She had more magazine appearances than Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford combined according to the fine book on her life by Karen Essex and James L. Swanson. At the height of her career she disappeared. She lives in anonymity and seclusion today (April 22, 2007) at age 84. Happy Birthday Bettie. And thanks. Sadly, we lost Bettie Page in December of 2008. So, Goodbye Bettie, and thanks. Here is the official web site for Bettie Page. This is the web site for the movie about her life: "The Notorious Bettie Page" And here is a fun site from a really avid fan: The Bettie page And consider this… Little Annie Fannie will be 45 this year(2009). ____________________ Go HERE! Pinups: More Of Kurtzman and Elder's Little Annie Fanny And Betty Boop will be 79. (2009) While …um, dwelling on this sobering fact my screen saver went into overdrive. It scrolled a slideshow of random photos for a while and then flashed these two pictures consecutively. The Jack Davis cartoon on the left and then the photo on the right. Are we being guided here by unknown forces? Is a relativity here that we are missing? We must also consider the startling fact that Fearless Fosdick will be 65 this year and Social Security will kick in. And Al Capp would be 98 this year had he not found the cure for aging in 1979. Consequently, he will always be 70. But that’s digression, a favorite talent. Jack Davis will be 83 this December (2009). He and Jan Vermeer are favorites. Vermeer will be 375 in October. (Note to self: remember to buy a card.} Now obviously this is not nearly as interesting as removing your own appendix, but perhaps it will do for an anesthetic while you do.

These are the most popular pages: Alison Young Art Pepper Barney Kessel Bettie Page Curl-up-and-dye Edgar Degas and the lost Ginger Nude Ginger Panda Gnat Trap Little Annie Fannie Marilyn Resident Alien Sunday Funnies

Just a few birthdays.

Fearless Fosdick was three things: It was a comic strip. It was a comic strip parody of ANOTHER comic strip: Dick Tracy It was a comic strip that appeared WITHIN another comic strip: Li'l Abner Today is the birthday of Fearless Fosdick, Li'l Abner's ideel; both the creations of the controversial and onery cartoonist Al Capp. Mr. Fosdick is 65. For the rest of the story click on the panel at the left to take you to the fine website "Did You Know" and an excellent coverage of this super-hero...(read as "Stupor-Hero") Or there is a shorter bio here... Read here about the ill-fated TV series depicting this comic strip within a comic strip parody of another comic strip. Some other notable birthdays today: 1930 Sonny Rollins I saw Sonny Rollins perform at the Ottawa Jazz Festival in 2001. I was working as a volunteer in the Musician's Hospitality Room at the Ramada Inn where all the festival performers stayed. I met him briefly on an elevator going up to the Hospitality Room floor. He performed at the evening show in Confederation Park. He did not participate in the jam session late that night. Of course he was seventy-one at that time. 1936 Buddy Holly Do you know where you were when the music died? I read it in the local newspaper the next morning. 1942 Garrison Keillor...Well, depending on the source, his birthday might also be August 7...er, stay tuned... I could write volumes about listening to Keillor's radio show, "Prairie Home Companion" Saturday evening on PBS. I have listened to the program faithfully since I first heard it back in 1989. I used to faithfully record the two hour program so that I could listen to them over and over. (Which, of course, I never did.) If you have not heard a segment called "News from Lake Woebegone" you have my sincerest sympathy. The program is on the non-commercial Public Broadcast System so Keillor makes up his own commercials. He features Bertha’s Kitty Boutique, Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery and The Fear Monger Shop. There’s also Be-Bop-A-Re-Bop Rhubarb Pie and Be-Bop-A-Re-Bop Frozen Rhubarb Pie Filling and The “Catchup” Advisory Board. And of course the show’s opening sponsor, Powder Milk Bisquits, in the blue box with the brown stains that indicate freshness. "Made from whole wheat raised in the rich bottomlands of the Lake Wobegon river valley by Norwegian bachelor farmers; so you know they're not only good for you, but pure ... mostly," 1951 Julie Kavner Don’t know this one? You’re not paying attention. She’s Marge Simpson

These are the most popular pages: Marilyn Art Pepper Gnat Trap Alison Young Resident Alien Ginger Panda Barney Kessel Sunday Funnies Yes, I refuse to use Kleenex until THIS stops. Things ain't what they used to be. (In fact, they never was.) The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Happy Birthday Bettie

No Reason. I just thought it was clever. Things ain't what they used to be. (In fact, they never was.) The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Speaking of Icons; today is the birthday of Bettie Page; the greatest Pin-Up of all time. The mystique of her influence and style, her look, thrives today. She had more magazine appearances than Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford combined according to the fine book on her life by Karen Essex and James L. Swanson. At the height of her career she disappeared. She lives in anonymity and seclusion today (April 22, 2007) at age 84. Happy Birthday Bettie. And thanks. Sadly, we lost Bettie Page in December of 2008. So, Goodbye Bettie, and thanks. Here is the official web site for Bettie Page. This is the web site for the movie about her life: "The Notorious Bettie Page" And here is a fun site from a really avid fan: The Bettie page And consider this… Little Annie Fannie will be 45 this year(2009). ____________________ Go HERE! Pinups: More Of Kurtzman and Elder's Little Annie Fanny And Betty Boop will be 65. While …um, dwelling on this sobering fact my screen saver went into overdrive. It scrolled a slideshow of random photos for a while and then flashed these two pictures consecutively. The Jack Davis cartoon on the left and then the photo on the right. Are we being guided here by unknown forces? Is a relativity here that we are missing? We must also consider the startling fact that Fearless Fosdick will be 65 this year and Social Security will kick in. And Al Capp would be 98 this year had he not found the cure for aging in 1979. Consequently, he will always be 70. But that’s digression, a favorite talent. Jack Davis will be 83 this December. He and Jan Vermeer are favorites. Vermeer will be 375 in October. (Note to self: remember to buy a card.} Now obviously this is not nearly as interesting as removing your own appendix, but perhaps it will do for an anesthetic while you do.

These are the most popular pages: Alison Young Art Pepper Barney Kessel Bettie Page Curl-up-and-dye Edgar Degas and the lost Ginger Nude Ginger Panda Gnat Trap Little Annie Fannie Marilyn Resident Alien Sunday Funnies