The challenge from sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “politics”. W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel served as Texas governor and United States senator. Born in 1890 in Ohio, O’Daniel came to Texas at age 29 as a sales manager for Burrus Mills, a flour-milling company in Fort Worth. In 1928, O’Daniel took over the company’s radio advertising and …
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge word this week is “monsters”. In 1927 Tod Browning directed Lon Chaney Sr. in the film “London After Midnight”. This silent film classic has become the most famous “lost” motion picture. The movie told the story of wealthy Sir Roger Balfour. Balfour is found shot to death in his home. Inspector Burke, …
…Capgras delusion. Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical looking impostor. The Capgras delusion is classed as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs that involves …
The challenge on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “imagine”. On March 5, 1983, Journey Into Imagination opened in Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center (as the theme park was known at that time). The ride began with riders boarding their omnimover vehicles that seemed to be floating in the clouds. The clouds would part and riders would …
The challenge this week on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “noir”. I saw “Scream” a few days ago on one of the many movie channels on cable television. I had seen it several times before. It’s not a great movie, but it is funny the way Wes Craven pokes fun at himself and the genre that made him …
Sugarfrostedgoodness.com‘s challenge word this week is “shy”. Andy Partridge, the founder of eclectic rock group XTC, suffered a nervous breakdown, which manifested itself as uncontrollable stage fright. It was brought on by his wife, Marianne, throwing away his supply of Valium. Andy had become dependent upon the drug after it was prescribed to him as a teenager …
When I was a kid in the 1960s, every summer usually included one or two trips to Atlantic City. My parents, my older brother and I would pile into the car and take, what seemed to be, the eleven-hour drive from northeast Philadelphia to the southern New Jersey seaside resort (Of course, as an adult, …
The challenge on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “ape”. In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. It is considered to be the first detective story, preadating the first Sherlock Holmes story by forty-six years and Agatha Christie‘s birth by fifty-nine years. Poe referred to it as one of his tales of …
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge word this week is “innocent”. On August 29, 1484, Pope Innocent VIII succeeded Pope Sixtus IV (for whom the Sistine Chapel was named). And it was all downhill from there. After his coronation, he went back all his promises and left his signatures unhonored, slyly revelling in his immunity. He abandoned the …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “wicked”. “Wicked” Wilson Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up singing in Baptist church choirs. He was the youngest of 11 children. He made reference to his mother as “the baddest woman in my book.” He said, “I get scared of her now. She …
