I was into DOOL back when he was on the show. The Austin/Carrie/Lucas/Sammi love quadtangle was quite the attraction in the ‘90s.
H & I used to enjoy this show back in its heyday - Darrell was an interesting fellow.
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His husband’s death was exactly two months before his passing yesterday. 
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How sad. I met him years ago when I had briefly dated a musician with New World Symphony. Nice guy. RIP.
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Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the Ronettes, the powerhouse trio whose blend of driving drums and horns backing sugar-sweet vocals earned them a string of hits, like “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You,” and made them an integral part of the soundtrack of mid-20th-century America, died on Sunday at her home in Chesapeake, Va. She was 80.
The Ronettes — Nedra Talley, along with her cousins Veronica Bennett, later known as Ronnie Spector, and Estelle Bennett — were the archetype of the 1960s girl group, with towering beehive hairdos, dark eyeliner and perfectly synced three-part harmonies, a combination of street-tough vamp and all-American sweetheart.
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Oh, man, just heard this on the radio.
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RIP…
“ J. Craig Venter, 79, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died Wednesday in San Diego. The cause was side effects from cancer treatment.
In the 1990s, Venter, a risk-taker and intense competitor, made a bold move when he decided that the Human Genome Project, a $3 billion government program for decoding the human genome, was moving slowly enough that he could enter the race late and beat it with a much faster method. His gamble paid off. In 2000, his company, Celera, made a joint announcement with a rival group saying that they had assembled the first human genomes, a landmark step toward uncovering the genetic basis of human disease and origins.
His drive and management skills helped him inspire loyalty and assemble teams of exceptional scientists, including Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist Hamilton O. Smith. Together, they achieved one landmark after another in the nascent field of genomics. For his contributions to sequencing the human genome, Venter received the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2007. Then-President Barack Obama presented him with the National Medal of Science in 2009.”
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Ted Turner was 87
Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87 His sprawling legacy encompassed conservation, philanthropy and professional sports, and his bellicosity and bravado earned him the nickname “Mouth of the South.
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Ted Turner’s company was the company that supplied the news reports that were broadcast in airports back around about 2000/2001. On 9/11 he ordered the TVs in airports turned off so as to not panic the various people waiting for flights (which included me). As such I had no idea what was going on until I got home. I do not know what I would have done if I had been watching the planes go into the world trade center while waiting to board a flight at Logan Airport. As it was I found out what was happening right after I got home, which was a very good place to be that day. I think that he did the right thing in this case.
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Philip Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose best-selling, disillusioning memoir, “A Rumor of War,” about leading a Marine platoon through the sniper-riddled and booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam, entered the canon of wartime literature, died on Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Conn. He was 84.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/books/philip-caputo-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.QdQD.KNae5NRPYxXB&smid=url-share
I remember reading this book in a college class about the Vietnam war and thinking how an accident of birth, the year I was born, kept me and my classmates out of it
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Betty Broderick was big news here in San Diego. The trials were followed by everyone here. Later people around the country knew of her from the series about her murdering her ex husband and his fiance. D2’s high school boyfriend lived in the house that Betty and Dan lived in with their children. This was not the house where the murders happened.
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RIP, Bobby Cox. You were a great manager and very kind to my S when he took care of you at Fresh Market.
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A different kind of celebrity: RIP CBS radio, going off the air May 22 after 99 years CBS News Radio to shut down after nearly a century of broadcasting - CBS News
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I read that in my American History class in college, too, and really liked it.
My husband was in the very last draft lottery, but he got a “good” number and didn’t have to serve. I just looked it up - his number was 239 and the highest picked that year, 1972, was 195.
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And the accident of sex. There were six in our family. My sister (1955) and I (1958) didn’t have to register. If I were male I wouldn’t have had to register because 1958 was exempt. My brothers (1956, 1961, 1962 and 1966) all had to register.
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A tumultuous time for sure. Both my brothers had low numbers. Older actually went to Whitehall St. (NYC draft intake site) when called but managed to be rejected in the physical. The draft ended before my younger brother was called. My first cousin served and got numerous awards including a purple heart. The son of my mother’s best friend went to Canada where he lived out his life.
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Arlo Guthrie also went to Whitehall Street to be processed for the draft. He has an hilarious description of his experience there in the story/song “Alice’s Restaurant”.
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I had a draft number of 27! They stopped the draft a few months before I graduated from HS. I had classmates who had their physicals and were ready to report right after graduation when the draft gave them a reprieve.
This is why tourism to Viet Nam has NO appeal for me—I spent many years of my youth praying I would NOT be sent there.
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There’s a draft calculator online. You can enter your birthday and see if you would have been drafted. I wouldn’t have been, but my sister would have (if they had drafted women, of course).
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One of my best friends says the draft litter is the only lottery he has ever won. He was number 1. But was not drafted because of medical reasons.
Should we start a thread about the draft lottery?
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