{"id":2035,"date":"2011-10-18T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/how-to-date-yourself\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:40:19","slug":"how-to-date-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/how-to-date-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO DATE YOURSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched a DVD with the kids last night that contained the first 3 episodes from the TV series Bewitched<\/i>, which I used to LOVE. They were…ASTOUNDED by the special effects. I thought Elizabeth Montgomery was great, and I must have heard back in 1995 that she had died of cancer, but I didn’t remember it so I was a little sad when I googled her last night and found out she’d passed away at 62.<\/p>\n

Do you remember when Dick York was just quietly replaced with Dick Sargent and nobody seemed to notice? I was too young to pay attention, but did you know what happened to him? He suffered a debilitating back injury while filming a movie and eventually was unable to act. He was only 63 when he died.<\/p>\n

If you remember that, which Dick did you like better? <\/p>\n

He didn’t fare much better; Mr. Sargent. He died when he was only 64.<\/p>\n

I think I’d have to watch more episodes…I remember liking their daughter Tabitha and thinking that was a cool name, though my very favorite name for years and years, for a girl, was Jaime. I had a friend at some point named Jaime, for a short time. She was a bit older and I idolized her for however long it was we lived in the same place and she taught me all the words to Running Bear<\/i>. I can still sing much more of it than I would like to admit. Poor Little White Dove! Too bad neither one of them reached their sixties.<\/p>\n

You know, one thing that I kept thinking about when I heard that Steve Jobs passed away this month was that he was only 56 and that my dad was also only 56 when HE died. <\/p>\n

Despite all the advances we’ve made medically, technologically, culturally, socially…people still just die too young sometimes.<\/p>\n

Well! This took an unexpected turn toward the morbid. Here I was going to amuse you with pop culture references to things I loved as a child and teenager which would have some of you, no doubt scratching your heads and saying, “Wut? Huh?”<\/p>\n

Like H.R. Pufnstuf! I loved that show! Did you know it only aired for 17 episodes? That’s crazy! Also, I don’t know about you, but if H.R. Pufnstuf was supposed to be a dragon, they sure did a crap job of creating his look. And hey! Guess how old the kid that played Jimmy in that show was when he died? 53.<\/p>\n

You know what other show I loved? Ultraman<\/i>. MAN, I loved ULTRAMAN. And Land of the Lost<\/i>. Sleestaks were The Awesome. They just don’t make bad guys like Sleestaks anymore. And Lost in Space<\/i>. I wanted to BE Penny. <\/p>\n

This seems to be skewing about 5th-6th grade-ish, so other things I loved:<\/p>\n