Wildlife: The Whitetail Deer herd just scampered merrily across the road in front of me this morning. Black ice, WHAT black ice? They have been there every day along that same stretch of road, so I was ready. (see Weather below)



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Weather: Ice on the roads this morming -- black, smooth and dangerous -- looks like 4-wheeling for a few months! A blizzard started at about 8:30. Maybe people will be scared enough to drive slowly.

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site Click to help out a little.

Media Watch: NFL Football -- I saw large parts of two games Sunday afternoon which were hard-fought to the bitter end. Washington 35 Tampa Bay 36 -- a gutsy two-point conversion, running the ball in the last few seconds, won the game. The lowly Minnesota Vikings scored 24 and beat the puffed-up N.Y. Giants who barely got to 21 -- every yard was heavily contested, and NY's defense was too beat-up to stop Minnesota's final drive.
Pre-game madness -- MAD-TV's Frank couldn't possibly be as funny as he was last week, but he sure is a good mimic. Jillian Barbarie didn't go out on a limb either, but she defiantly welcomed Pamela Anderson back again.
Category 7: End of the World tried to be suspenseful. Gina Gershon got the last word, which may mean her career is on the upswing, and the evil Dick Cheney-like character was sucked up into a tornado.
I'm reading about Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, and Mildred Wirt Benson -- the gang who created, wrote, and published the Nancy Drew mysteries and other popular book series.
The photo section has a small black and white reproduction of 70's Nancy Drew actress Pamela Sue Martin's Playboy cover. (Which I'm not going to show here.)
I happen to like these nearly-forgotten movies from the late 30's:
NANCY DREW, DETECTIVE (1938); NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE (1939; NANCY DREW, REPORTER (1939); NANCY DREW, TROUBLE SHOOTER (1939)-- All starring Bonita Granville. They are silly and fun. They could have been better, and maybe more like the series, but they reportedly had no impact on book sales at all.
Here's two flicks that I've never even heard of, much less seen:
STARDUST ON THE STAGE (1942) Starring Louise Currie as Nancy Drew.
THE TEXAS KID (1943) Starring Shirley Patterson as Nancy Drew.

The first Nancy Drew mystery 1930