After 31 years of teaching middle-school science, Commons fan Linda Artruc is doing retirement right.
Picture This
Colleagues take stealth photos of me when I’m not looking and then IM them to me. It’s kind of unsettling.
They Caught Me Daydreaming
They caught me daydreaming when I was supposed to be thinking outside the box. I told them I was thinking outside the room.
“[W]ith His Beady Little Eyes”
“Question: Help! Many years ago there was a TV program called Maverick, which was about two brothers, Bret and Bart. One was played by James Garner and the other by…? It’s driving us nuts. Please try to help. I can see his face, but not his name. Thanks.”
One of my old Televisionary columns. The question was made up to give me an excuse to write about whatever show I wanted to focus on. (I nearly always did that with the first question.) It was about Maverick co-star Jack Kelly, but James Garner’s charm claimed at least half the answer.
Adios, Jim Rockford. No one ever pulled a Firebird J-turn or handed a security guard a stack of phone books, only to then punch the hapless guy in the jaw, like you.