Sunday Reads

Obituary:  Comedian Rip Taylor, 84, has died, it was reported.  He was known for his zany antics and his confetti:

Charles Elmer Taylor Jr. was born on Jan. 13, 1935, in Washington, D.C. His father was a musician, his mother a waitress. As a teen, he attended the Capitol Page School and served as a congressional page.

"Can you imagine what I do now and what I did then?" Taylor said during a 1990 interview with Skip E. Lowe. "I knew I was a ham in those hallways because you had to wear a black suit and black knickers. And you'd all have to go under the catacombs to get to the Senate office building, the House office building and Supreme Court to get a document for the congressman and the senator. But I went straight through the rotunda with all the tourists. I would say, 'Paging Senator Bilbo,' who was hot at the time. He was the one in the papers. I was so hammy even then. I knew I was going to be in show business someday."

After enlisting in the U.S. Army, he was assigned to the Signal Corps but ended up in special services, where he entertained the troops in Tokyo and Korea.

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It's called "passing the trash."
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Another part of the now-infamous Brighton, UK, meeting of A Woman's Place UK, which was the scene of a hissy fit on the part of transactivists, who tried to shut it down unsuccessfully but kept banging on the windows:


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