Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

(Or, Jensen and His Girls)

When I was little, I had a set of Mattel dolls called The Sunshine Family. I had great fun playing with Stephanie, Steve, and Sweets. I had their camper/farmer's market/craft fair booth and their tandem bicycle surrey, and I believe I had their house as well.

Here's today's sunshine family, which Sunshine Dad took and Sunshine Mom shared:

( The Sunshine Family, 2013 )

Turns out the guy had no business being among the general populace. He had a history of shooting at neighbors and deputies, and was actually insane.

Latest from the hometown paper.

My mom told me that the high school is flying the flag at half-mast. As it should be.

Funeral services are reportedly going to be held at my home church on Friday. I wish I could be there.

Rob Morrow's new series, The Whole Truth (which co-stars Maura Tierney), will premiere on ABC on September 22. There will be an ep in which Judd Hirsch guest stars.

Yes, that might have been a squee you heard.

. . . and I can't help but cry. Thank God for people who are willing to look out for each other, even at risk of themselves.

Boston train driver's quick thinking saves a life

From a different security camera

GMA interviewed the driver. She'd been contacted previously to use caution because of a different issue (the platform was heavy? . . . don't know what that means), and when Ms. Lewis saw the man leaning over the tracks and waving frantically, she was watching him because she was afraid he was going to fall.

When the woman got up, Ms. Lewis counted limbs, made sure the woman was okay.

The woman who fell has been identified (I forget her name). I think they said she was a hospital employee, and that she refused medical treatment. Per the report, she'd had four beers, and was crushing out a cigarette with her foot when she fell.

Just . . . how frightening. And wonderful that no one was hurt.

Thought my TS friends might be interested in this.

Just to see if I can get this right . . .

Here's a link to an article I found this morning:

The Aussie Bible

I thought it was kind of interesting, particularly since I read a different article recently about the Bible being translated into Gullah, which is a creole language (though I think of it more as a dialect. I suppose an argument could be made that there's a fine line between "language" and "dialect," but I digress . . .)

The Gullah Bible

Incidentally, we actually do have a copy of The Cockney Bible somewhere in the house.