Called Uber after I got dressed and finished eating. It was supposed to climb into the upper 90's, too hot for bike riding. Bad enough I'd be pushing carts. Had no trouble either way. Got the one in the morning in 9 minutes, the one in the afternoon in 7.
As it turned out, I spent most of those hot five hours pushing carts. We weren't all that busy this morning, and the heat was still tolerable...but by noon, everyone had gotten out of church and were now shopping for kids who were at home all week, and the temperatures had crept into the 90's. I swept and put away cold items too, but the carts kept disappearing. No help, either. The young man who usually works Sundays took today off.
Cooled off by picking up a few things I hadn't gotten on Friday. The Acme was the only place I could find remotely affordable fish oil gummy vitamins. Found the orange Poppi sodas on clearance for 75 cents each. That was hard to resist. So was a half-price Crest Gum Restore toothpaste. Though I'd try a peanut butter cup "cookie cake," basically a lot of large soft cookies baked together.
Put everything away when I got home, then went into adding the remaining records to the rock inventory. Artists here included Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, the Who, the Vogues, Wings, the Four Seasons, Three Dog Night, Tina Turner, U2, and "Weird" Al Yankovic. Weird Al's entry ends the record part of the inventory. I'll start in on the rock CDs tomorrow.
Listened to jazz, vocalists, and hard rock records while I worked. There's some good music on that three-artist jazz collection I picked up from Innergroove yesterday. Never even heard of Wardell Gray, but his "Double Or Nothing" and "High and Low" were especially enjoyable.
That's Life is Frank Sinatra in belting been-around-twice mode. I prefer the softer sell with him. The lovely "I Will Wait for You" and "Somewhere My Love" don't benefit from the belting. The title tune and "You're Gonna Hear From Me" come off better. Face Dances is the Who's first album after Keith Moon's death. I don't know if it's that well-regarded today, but there are some decent songs here, notably "The Quiet One" and "You Better You Bet."
Tonight's Match Game marathon was originally going to revolve around McLean Stevenson, but the owner of the channel had a hard time getting it through YouTube. He reuploaded the one that revolved around the best suits worn on the show...which ironically, featured McLean prominently in several episodes. He came out wearing one of Gene's plaid coats and looking like he was 90 in one syndicated episode. The pale blue coat Gene gave him was much better. Ted Lange loaned him a suit and a cowboy hat in a later episode that made him look more like he was on the set of Dallas. As Brett told him several times, he had no flair for fashion.
Gene's fashion sense wasn't always so hot, either. His infamous green and red plaid suit in late 1973 was so hideous, even by the standards of the early 70's, the panelists wouldn't even look at him when he came out. The gray-checked suit with the pink bow tie he wore a few weeks later prompted vaudeville and used car salesman jokes from Brett and Pat Harrington.
He did better once Rubin Brothers started dressing him. Charles used to tease him about how boring his suits were, but I thought he usually looked pretty dapper. He was especially proud of a pair of dapper wing-tipped shoes. He got ribbed for wearing a pair of bright red suede shoes in a PM episode. That one began with jokes about Gene's footwear and ended with Charles, Brett, and Richard Paul singing "Deep In the Heart of Texas" while the contestant ended up in Jamie Lee Curtis' lap.
He wasn't the only one who occasionally had wardrobe problems. Ted walked into a syndicated episode and demanded that Fred Grandy give him his suit back. He did...right in full view of the audience. Fred ended up stripping down to his shorts and a t-shirt. Gene gave him a vest to make him look slightly more presentable.
Check out some sweet suits and genuine fashion disasters on this hilarious marathon!
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