Some Reads for Sunday

Obit:  Singer and actress Abbe Lane, 93, died this past April but her death wasn't announced until this weekend.  She died from natural causes.  Her real name was Abigail Francine Lassman.

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In 1952, she married Cuban bandleader Xavier Cugat at the age of 16 (he was 49 years old at the time). Lane, who spoke four languages, fronted his Latin music orchestra until their divorce in 1964. She went on to remarry theatrical agent Perry Leff shortly after, and the couple had two sons, Steven and Andrew. Perry died in 2020.

Along with her work on-screen, Lane also made headlines for her suggestive comments about fellow Hollywood actresses, including her now iconic, “Jayne Mansfield may turn boys into men, but I take them from there.”

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Oregon Caves Pictures

 A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Oregon Caves National Monument, located near Cave Junction in southern Oregon.  It was the first time I have been there since the centennial of its designation in 2009.  Here are a few pictures of that trip:

Some Reads for Thursday

 A recently rediscovered silent film from 1913 has been restored and will get a public screening.

Here is a list of films recently rediscovered that were thought lost forever.

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Mitch McConnell is allegedly still alive and claims he has been discharged from the rehab center.

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A Few Reads for Wednesday

 Todd Blanche is yet another religious right dipshit trying to impose his beliefs on everybody else, especially women.

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I don't know if tinkering with the Triple Crown in horse racing is such a great idea.

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A Few Reads for Monday

 There is no limit to how depraved male domestic abusers can be.

Even so, that case is shocking.

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Some Saturday Whatever

 Today's Jim Dandy Stakes was the race of the week:

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Reads for Thursday

What a weird, weird case.  Obviously a homicide.

Snip:

The investigation began with the gruesome discovery earlier this month. That Sunday, around 7:59 p.m. local time, a family member was cleaning out the home after a relative died when they discovered what seemed to be human remains in a chest freezer that was located in a locked outbuilding on the property, officials said.

Once the remains were confirmed to be human, they were sent to the medical examiner’s office for identification and to determine the cause and manner of death.

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From the same publication is this story about forensic genetic genealogy identified a Florida man found in a Utah underpass 14 years ago.

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