The Sheila Variations

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-- A HUGE shoutout to Mark, for upgrading Movable Type for me. I owe you big-time. My trackback function works again - as well as my "activity log". Thank you!!

-- The heat wave broke. Thank God. I feel like a human being again.

-- Re-read Bridge to Terabithia in a day this week. Cried all over again. What a wonderful book. The part where the father - who has been kind of cold and grumpy throughout - picks his boy up in his arms like a small baby ... Okay, I'm crying now just typing this.

-- Updated: New pictures

-- I'm in 2 musical phases right now: Eartha Kitt and Metallica. (Metallica is usually a constant - so that's not really a "phase" - but regardless, my lack of desire to listen to anybody other than Eartha freakin Kitt (what??) and Metallica has become so strong that I have made a playlist of only alternating Eartha and Metallica songs. It has to be the weirdest playlist in history.)

-- I'm gonna be working all day today and playing all night.

-- This gesture of Dean Stockwell's below. Sort of cupping his chin with his hand, one finger up over his face, smushing in the skin, a deep in thought gesture ... It shows up in pretty much any picture he's made. Gesture consistency throughout decades of life. Makes me wonder if I have any gesture that has not changed, that I have been doing since I was 7. He does it still (only now he usually has a cigar in the right hand).

Age 11, Gentlemans Agreement

Age 50-something, Quantum Leap

Also, just have to say - in regards to the picture below, the smile, etc. - maybe the hairline is different, maybe he has wrinkles now - but he pretty much looks exactly the same, as far as I'm concerned. Some people change drastically from their childhood face - you can barely tell it is them. Maybe cause he wasn't a precocious actor-y mannered little kid - you know those little actor kids who seem like mini grownups and somehow unreal? Or like obnoxious little show-offs? He didn't have that ever. He always seemed real, like a real little boy.

But still - his face itself hasn't changed. He is recognizably Dean Stockwell in that shot. Like - same face as here - it's just 40 years earlier. I love that.

(I realize I'm kinda OCD about Stockwell right now. I am not embarrassed.)

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