I'm finding that seeing television that reflects my life is not as much fun as it used to be. I don't know what half the shows are, but when I'm channel-checking it's either a sitcom, reality TV, or a telegenic actor filmed in dark gray pointing a gun. Whatever it is I don't want to see it. The reality of CNN is bad…

I'm going to be 66 on Friday, and I've been compiling a long long list of the celebrities *under 70* who have died this year. Around the end of the year I'll post it.

She's gone, too.

I went to high school with him before he ever did any acting. He was an athletic BMOC then, and by now he has acted with practically every dramatic luminary you can name.

He (as an astronaut) is on the Ohio quarter along with the Wright Brothers.

I never saw them in concert, but spent many evenings with them, stoned on waterbeds with a lover or just someone I didn't know too well. "From the Beginning…"

I've been enjoying the "Real Vikings" documentaries which follow the episodes this year. They have discussed the religion, the origins of the raiding culture, artifacts and so on. Next week they'll cover the role of Viking women. I wish they would explain hairstyles and the bizarre black eye make-up on both men and…

Ron Glass's cause of death was given was "respiratory failure', which means he stopped breathing. Which is generally what happens when you die, from whatever cause.

Eat it raw. No, really.

And yet 2016 is such a nice number….

Check out the Norse-based "Lord of the Rings". Some gay writers swear up and down that there is a homo-erotic subtext. Again, I don't believe it's that simple.

So far I have them differentiated as Young Matthew McConnaughey (Ubbe), Hayley Mills as Pollyanna (Sigurd), Ivar, and The Other One.

Yes, she looks mature but still beautiful, whereas Ragnar and Floki are looking a bit long in the tooth, which is not surprising considering all the beating up they have taken over the last 12-15 years (calculating from the maturing of Bjorn). I just wish the casting directors would get away from long blonde hair for…

In past historical times people didn't have much of a rigid either-or attitude towards sexuality and affection. bear in mind that male warriors often spoke of their love for each other. And in more strictly homosocial societies affection, physical and otherwise, was often displayed between members of the same sex. For…

Shot at 90 by a jealous husband!

Though I watched hm many times - for some reason I used to get him mixed up with Hans Conreid - I keep remembering him from an early 70s TV movie, "The Borgia Stick".

Not me, but my excuse is that I didn't have SyFy then.

Yes.

So far I have lived longer than did my father, my uncle, and two husbands. I'm now working on living longer than my grandparents -the oldest was 73, so I've got a few years.

Yep - more years behind us than ahead of us.