Elizabeth would NEVER miss either The Lawrence Welk Show, or The Donna Reed Show.  No middle-aged woman back then would.

Gerard

The scene from "Mrs. Doubtfire", wherein Robin Williams is at his first attempt at cooking a "gourmet" meal, and sets his "additionals" on fire, comes to mind when I think of Willie trying to cook, especially in a kitchen which obviously used a wood-burning stove.

When Barnabas had abducted Maggie and tried to wine-and-dine her in the drawing room, I could just see it.  There's Barnabas, sitting across from her, telling her to keep repeating her name:  "Josette.  Josette."  Maggie, trance-like, does it accordingly.  Finally, Willie walks in, covered with soot, his hair still smoldering, and he plops two plates down with peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on them.  Barnabas gives him a you're-going-to-die-Willie look, but quickly backs off when he sees Willie's expression, made all the more pertinent when Willie intones:  "Don't even say a damn word and be grateful you got at least this,", and walks out.

Gerard

I kinda picture Willie at the back door, doing his usual nervous pacing, rubbing his hand over his hair followed by that palm-up arm pumping, that anguished expression on his face, popping his head outside, saying with gritty intent:  "C'mon, c'mon!  Where the hell is that damn pizza guy!"

Gerard

Let's all hope that this was just a "scare" and that he'll fully recuperate!  And the advice of eating right and exercising and all that is vitally important.  My father had "borderline" diabetes and died of renal failure related to it.  After that, I started to exercise, eat nutritionally, and lost 100 pounds.  Better safe than sorry!  

Here's to John's/Willie's/Carl's/Will's//Desmond's/Kendrick's/Alex's recovery!

Gerard

I'm still trying to figure out why, when they unwrapped Eve, not only was she wearing something from Victoria's Secrets, but why she had a pair of shoes on.  When they assembled her body, did they just use legs with those shoes and decided, what the heck, just leave 'em on?

Gerard

I imagine there were several things he did to whittle away the time.  For one, he knitted a killer afghan.  Then there was the collection of New York Times crossword puzzles.  He tried to read every single page of the Internal Revenue Service's instruction and regulations manual (he never did finish - he only had 172 years).  Oh, and he managed to memorize the theme to The Patty Duke Show.  Time flies when you're having fun!

Gerard

I'm still NOT reading it (save for the first three chapters).  I just keep printing off the chapters, ka-chunk them with a three-hole punch, and put them in a binder until the entire wonderful story is complete.  Then the reading adventure begins!

Gerard