Thank heavens I got to work on time. We were off and on busy. The carts kept vanishing, and it was just me. The regular Sunday morning bagger took the day off. At least there were no problems. It was too gorgeous for anyone to be in a bad mood. Sunny, breezy, and in the upper 70's. Couldn't have had nicer weather.
I needed to buy strawberries anyway, so I grabbed two turkey and ham pretzel roll sliders and rode my bike into Oaklyn. I ate my lunch at the small park around the War Memorial and the parking lot, watching a family with a little boy running around. It was too nice to eat inside! They were setting up for...something...in the parking lot. There was a Camden County trailer there, and they were putting out blocks on the lot. I wonder if they were leftover from Final Friday, or there was something going on with Tonewood Brewery.
When I got home, I changed, finished The Prince of Egypt, and went down for a much-needed nap. I walked for two and a half hours yesterday, not counting the half-hour ramble though the woods behind the Barclay Homestead, and I've been up way too late recently. I went down at 2:30 and didn't roll out of bed until quarter after 5.
Messed around online and had dinner while listening to Great Ladies of Rock and Roll: The 60's. There's a lot of really great numbers here, from Aretha Franklin's iconic demand for "Respect" to Petuala Clark singing about how much fun it is "Downtown." Lesser-known titles include Barbara Lewis' "Hello Stranger," Patty and the Emblems declaring they're a "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl," The Toys and their "A Lover's Concerto," The Chiffons saying "He's So Fine," Claudine Clark's "Party Lights," and the Murmaids comparing love to "Popsicles and Icicles."
Finished the night with dinner, a shower, and tonight's Match Game YouTube marathon. Comedian and character actor Bart Braverman started out as a child actor in the 50's. By the time he made his first appearance on Match Game in late 1978, he had just started appearing in the hit action show Vega$ with Robert Urich and Greg Morris. Bart could get really annoying at times, like when he and Fred Grandy brought cowbells and kazoos and kept playing them all week, or when Gene let him briefly host the show and he sounded more like a race track huckster than a game show host. When he wasn't tossing out quips, he was flirting with every pretty female contestant who appeared on the show.
Debralee Scott wasn't as amused with his idea of flirting. He spent the entire week he sat in Charles' seat throwing cards at her head and picking on her. She finally got fed up with it and stomped up to his chair to give him a good pounding. He responded by grabbing her for a kiss...and she added that she loved it when they made up!
Bart appeared on Match Game from 1978 through 1981. He would be one of the only men to sit in all three of male-designated seats and do equally well at all three of them. Brett usually loved flirting with him, when he wasn't getting on her nerves and acting too goofy. His last time on Match Game would be on the Too Close For Comfort week of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in 1984. He and Arsenio Hall joined the cast of that classic sitcom to hear JM Bullock make fun of Gene Rayburn's propensity for long, dull explanations or his constantly making fun of Lydia Cornell.
Blow a kazoo and ring a cow bell for the wildest detective in Sin City with these wacky and hilarious episodes!
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