On A Pale Horse

As I've probably mentioned before I spent most of my childhood summers at my Grandma & Grandpa B's. Being an only child in a decaying Detroit neighborhood I wasn't really allowed to go outside and play like normal children my age. I had a set schedule, wake up early, have a cholestral laden breakfast, listen to Amrye Makeupson read the morning news on channel 50, watch morning cartoons, go outside and run through the sprinkler or ride my bike up and down the block, eat lunch, take a nap, watch afternoon T.V., eat dinner, watch evening T.V., go to bed and repeat the same schedule again the following day. There were few shows I enjoyed more then Get Smart it was one of the few shows that was worth watching on channel 20. I loved this show pretty much for agent 99 and Hymie; Maxwell Smart was a bit too goofy for me.
Later in life dear ol' dad took me to see the classic 'The Nude Bomb'. Ahhhh memories.
Mr. Adams didn't start out as an actor, originally he worked as an engineer but turned to stand up comedy where he went on to star in a number of variety shows.

His career went into high gear after getting the part of Maxwell Smart leading him to receive three Emmy awards for his work. In later years he did a huge amount of voice over work in cartoons such as Underdog and Inspector Gadget.

Mr. Adams passed away on September 25th from a lung infection.

A side note, I loved how Mr. Adams looked in his later years. Something about gray hair and a black mustache really do it for me.

April 13, 1923 - September 25, 2005 R.I.P.

Labels: 1923 births, 2005 September deaths, actor, infection

I was pretty smart back in the day. In high school I was always on the Principles List for holding a 3.5 or higher and because of that I got to skip geography class. It wasn't until my sixth year of Community College (drugs are bad) that I learned exactly where Saudi Arabia was actually located. I had a communications teacher that worked for the US government selling Abrams or Bradley tanks to the Saudis, so she was extremely versed in the Middle East. More often then not she would tell us stories of the country and the customs; the highlight was when she brought in brochures of the tank written in Arabic. I never quite understood why she chose to teach on Saturdays if she was jet setting all around the world selling highly armed tanks. She loved talking about the Middle East as if it was her second home. Her idea of the final class project was having groups of us act like travel agents and try to sell the rest of the class to travel to our particular country. After each of the speeches were done she, of course, stood up and told us what was right or wrong - because she had been there.

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia passed away on August 1st. I've caught two different birth years 1921 and 1923 but general consensus is that he was born in 1923.

1921/23 - August 1, 2005

Labels: 1923 births, 2005 August deaths, political, undisclosed causes