Boss Hogg, we hardly knew thee.

Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, a cousin of Max Yasgur of Woodstock fame. Fluent in five languages (including Japanese), Booke graduated from Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. He had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me, A Fine Madness, and Fail-Safe before focusing primarily on television parts in the 1970s and 1980s, and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s.

Go down the movie list. He's been in tons of stuff!

The GOP seems to be bad at it.

Over the past year, he said, his relationship with the woman in Argentina "developed into something much more than that. And as a consequence, I hurt her. I hurt you all. I hurt my wife. I hurt my boys. . . . And all I can say is that I apologize."

This would be amusing if it were a friend of mine. And no one were married. As it is, it's disturbing on many levels. At least it wasn't his own staff member!

I don't know anyone involved.

the site is back up

It was only a year ago that I wished I could move into a super-cool house with a roofdeck with Tilda.

I accomplished the feat, after the most hellish set of circumstances possible that didn't involve physical pain, but missed the timeframe I wanted: by July 4th.

This year will be different. Fireworks* at St. John's Wood!

*invitation to follow