Johnny Ginger (The Outlaws Is Coming...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (Captain Detroit) later www.thatericalper.com/2026/07/07/j...

Tales from the Cone Zone "There is something out there." Elf, yesterday. If the doctor thinks the healing from her amputated toe (the pathology was benign) looks good, the cone comes off tomorrow 🤞

Happy bookish birthdays, 8 July, to: Jenny Diski (In Gratitude), Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love), J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/h...

8 July birthday smile

3 June's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was James Arness! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm00007... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Happiness...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (Frankenhooker; Mystery Men: Wolves of Wall Street) later "Louise Lasser Dead: 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' Star Was 87" share.google/98LFCwtK5jf5...

What was your favorite childhood film? 🖤

British telly director Michael Owen Morris (EastEnders - 241 eps; Casualty - 32; The Bill - 16; Coronation Street - 9...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (Doctor Who) later www.imdb.com/name/nm06068...

Tales from the Cone Zone Good news! The pathology on our dog Elf (shown here yesterday flying her podengo flag, the white tip on the end of her tail) was benign: not cancer! Thank you for all the kind thoughts! If the healing looks good, 2 more days with the cone...

When you say something is "the best thing since sliced bread", you specifically mean since 7 July 1928 (98 years ago today): that's when the 1st pre-sliced loaf of bread (thanks to a machine) was sold! Within 5 years, about 80% of the bread sold in the USA is pre-sliced!

Happy bookish birthdays, 7 July, to: Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land), Margaret Walker (Jubilee), Jeff Vandermeer (the Southern Reach Trilogy), David Eddings (The Belgariad series), T.J. Bass (Half Past Human), Jane Gaskell (King's Daughter)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/h...

7 July birthday smile (foreground)

2 June's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was Kim Richards! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm00016... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

"G.R.L. member and 'Party Rock Anthem' singer Lauren Bennett dies at 37 - ABC News" share.google/rqiSE1bOQsDr...

Happy bookish birthdays, 6 July, to: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall), Sharon Green (the Diana Santee series), Will James (Smoky the Cowhorse), Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Harold Norse (Carnivorous Saint)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/h...

Tales from the Cone Zone Elf, yesterday, alerting to me coming home. "You can limit my vision & restrict my reach, but I will not turn inward: the world is still open to me."

6 July birthday smile

"MC Sparky D, Pioneering Female Battle Rapper and Roxanne Wars Icon, Dies" share.google/sYA1vI8XodfZ...

Happy bookish birthdays, 5 July, to: Jean Cocteau (The Holy Terrors), Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves), Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/h...

Some of you might only know Della Reese from Touched By an Angel, but she was a fabulous & high-charting singer! Here she is knocking it out of the park singing Bill Bailey on The Ed Sullivan Show on 26 March 1961 (65 years ago): youtu.be/yASDBllWlBw?...

1 June's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was Chris Pine! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm15179... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

#SkyPic San Francisco East Bay This morning

Tales from the Cone Zone Elf relaxing in the The Shell II dog bed today, since having a toe amputated due to possible cancer on Tuesday. I'm glad we have those dog beds! She seems to b comfortable in them even with the cone

5 July birthday smile

31 May's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was Arlene Francis! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm02900... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

Just for fun for today: here's a list of 250 things, intended for the USA market, which I like! measuredcircle.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/e...

Happy bookish birthdays, 4 July, to: Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter), Ron Kovic (Born on the Fourth of July), Howard Taubman (The Pleasure of Their Company)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/h...

Tales from the Cone Zone Elf will not be stopped, despite having a toe amputated for possible cancer. She still took a sun bath yesterday!

"Tommy Hunter, 'Canada's Country Gentleman,' dead at 89 | CBC News" share.google/FZA98xDewbJI...

4 July birthday smile

30 May's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was James Coburn! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm00003... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

Writer/producer Wilford Lloyd Baumes (The Love Boat...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (Wonder Woman; Snowbeast...) later "Wilford Lloyd Baumes Dead: 'Wonder Woman' TV Producer Also Developed 'Love Boat'" share.google/i8jbOZ924MsX...

Variety ranks the 10 best horror films so far this year. I've seen Obsession, Hokum, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and one of their honorable mentions, Send Help. Not a huge horror guy, but I liked all of those. #filmsky 📽️ variety.com/lists/best-h...

On This Date #OTD 60 years ago (3 July 1966): Arlene Francis, Tony Randall, Suzy Knickerbocker, and Bennett Cerf appear on What’s My Line with host John Charles Daly. The Mystery Guest is Joan Crawford www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE82...

THE CONE Elf, yesterday: "This will stop me from living my life" 😉

Happy bookish birthdays, 3 July, to: Franz Kafka (Metamorphosis), M.F.K. Fisher (The Art of Eating), Evelyn Anthony (The Tamarind Seed), Joanne Harris (Chocolat)... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/h...

3 July birthday smile

Remembering George Sanders on his birthday

29 May's #EyedentityGame (I do this as a daily game). I can't do the kind of robust tracking I normally do for who gets it in 2 places, & this 1 has been answered there, but feel free to guess & discuss! I plan to reveal the answer tomorrow

This #EyedentityGame was Gavin MacLeod! Congrats if you got it & thanks for playing! IMDb Bio imdb.com/name/nm05338... JustWatch USA streaming guide justwatch.com/us/search?pr...

Elf got her bandage off her foot today where she had a toe amputated due to possible cancer. She is healing well, but will need to wear a cone for probably a week

Happy bookish birthdays, 2 July, to: Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha), Jean Craighead George (Julie of the Wolves), James Boyd (Drums), Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak series... ilmk.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/h...

Elf on Deck Patrol yesterday, flying her podengo flag (the white tip on the end of her tail) high!

2 July birthday smile

Writer Justin Richards (Doctor Who tie-in novels; The Chaos Code; The Invisible Detective series...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes later "Justin Richards, prolific DOCTOR WHO author, dead at 64" share.google/4HBZYTa73Z3n...