Re-Re-Re-Re-Watching Downton Abbey
Mamacita says: I made the mistake of clicking on Downton Abbey Season One on Amazon Prime video, just for a lark, because I’ve seen it before at least twice. In fact, I’ve seen all of the seasons. I actually own the DVD’s.
But for some reason, I clicked and started watching again.
Downton Abbey, Season One
I hadn’t realized before how much detail I missed all those other times.
Now I feel obligated to re-re-re-re-watch all the other seasons.
This is irony, you know. I don’t watch TV. There isn’t a single program I watch. Except Downton Abbey – on DVD or Amazon Prime.
It’s a big sappy soap opera, of course. Part of me is embarrassed that I like it so much. The other part of me – that teeny tiny fraction of a percent – loves everything about it.
I’m not interested in clothes and hair, but I love the clothes and hair on Downton Abbey.
That’s why I’m re-re-re-re-watching. Season One first. Then Season Two. And then all the others. All the others until the new season is released.
You know, for the sake of detail.
Rod Stewart vs. Sterling Holloway: Who Wins the Ultimate Cool?
Mamacita says: Does anybody else think that Rod Stewart sounds almost exactly like
Sterling Holloway, who did the voices for
Winnie the Pooh, and
Kaa, from The Jungle Book?
They even look a little bit alike.
But Rod Stewart was never in the Twilight Zone. Sterling Holloway was in several episodes.
Rod Stewart never played cool eccentric professors in the old Superman tv series with George Reeves and Noelle Neill.
George Reeves as Clark Kent, with Sterling Holloway
Rod was never on the screen with Andy and Opie and Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber. Sterling Holloway was.
Andy Griffith and Sterling Holloway
Rod Stewart never got to hobnob with Gilligan and the Skipper. And Mary Ann. You know, like Sterling Holloway did.
Sterling Holloway and Mary Ann
Rod didn’t have a recurring role in Circus Boy, with pre-Monkee Mickey Dolenz, but Sterling did.
Little Mickey Dolenze as Circus Boy
Rod Stewart never met Buffy and Jody, but Sterling Holloway did. Sterling probably got to meet Mrs. Beasley, too. Not Rod.
Buffy and Jody, of Family Affair
Sterling Holloway also worked with Rin Tin Tin. Rod Stewart never did.
Rin Tin Tin
Rod never met Hazel, or Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift, either. Sterling did.
Shirley Booth as Hazel & Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane
All Rod ever got to do was sing like Pooh and hang out with supermodels. Poor Rod.
I bet he wishes he was lucky like Sterling Holloway. What could trump Winnie the Pooh, Kaa, and one’s name coupled with every black and white icon in television and movie history plus a few technicolor scenes? That’s so much cooler than Maggie May.
Also, I bet Rod would have picked Ginger over Mary Ann, even though Mary Ann was cuter and smarter. Men who go for supermodels don’t always recognize cute and they don’t often appreciate smart because glamour and dumb tend to team up with testosterone, blocking common sense and blinding older men to quality. It’s a quick, easy fix for aging, insecure male hormones.
Political? Maybe. Analogy? Possibly.
Mamacita says: Some of you might think this post is a political analogy. You might be right; then again, you might not. Use your own judgment.
One of my college boyfriends was diagnosed with cancer. The tumor was small, at first, and the doctors tried to treat it with medication. This did not work, so the doctors tried more aggressive treatments; the goal was still to remove the tumor without harming the rest of the body.
This tumor would not go away. It persisted in its hold on the man, and the more doctors tried to shrink it or remove it, the more it debilitated the man: the more it weakened him. The more doctors tried to deal only with the tumor, the weaker my friend’s immune system became. He died, and the doctors honored his request that he have an autopsy.
Upon looking closely at and into the body, the doctors realized that if they had gone aggressively into the tumor right at the beginning, and forcibly carved it out before it put out feelers and roots and infiltrated the body completely, the man would have lived.
You see, that tumor really didn’t care anything about the man himself; it cared about the man only in as far as the man could be used as food and as a home base for the tumor. It cared about the man only because the man’s resources helped the tumor grow strong. The tumor cared only about itself; it became more than a parasite: it became the focal point of the man’s body.
As long as the doctors tried to treat the whole body of the man by focusing on one small intruder, the man perished. If the doctors had treated the whole body of the man by removing the tumor instead of trying to appease it, the man would have lived.
Appeasement doesn’t work in politics, and it doesn’t work in medicine, either.
I am not a doctor, but if I am ever invaded by a pernicious tumor, I want it cut out and burned, not appeased with first one thing and then another, trial and error. No patting a soothing medication on it in hopes that it will go away. No pretending it’s not there in hopes that it will go away by itself. No numbing it so it can’t actively DO anything although it’s still there to intimidate the useful body parts. I want it removed and burned, so the fear is gone, and the tension is gone, and the stress is gone, and the other body parts can heave a sigh of relief and go on with their rightful business.
Analogy? Why, no. It’s about a malignant tumor, and its potential to destroy a human being completely if it’s not forcibly removed by someone trained to do so.
Why, what were YOU thinking?
