Annette | December 15, 2009
That’s the title of George Carlin’s posthumously published sortabiography, finished by Tony Hendra, a funny, funny, smart man who had been Carlin’s friend for many decades, and with whom he’d started work on this project many years ago.
Right after the table of contents, and just before Hendra’s introduction, there is this small statement:
It says “Gee, [...]
Annette | December 8, 2009
He would have been ninety-five years old today. Hard to imagine, but numbers don’t lie. Fortunately, he doesn’t have that kind of infirmity to contend with, having shuffled off his mortal shell long before it became too burdensome.
When it finally mattered, he showed his greatest gift: he got the hell out of [...]
Annette | October 30, 2009
Not for one moment do you not own my heart.
I love you with everything in me, G. And that’s forever………..
Annette | February 28, 2009
I realized today that he knew he was dying, even before he started to die.
It just hit me as I moved a tiny ashtray out of the way, an ashtray from a Chinese restaurant in Kittery, Maine. The year was 1966, and I doubt the restaurant is still there.
Our first date. He was [...]
Annette | January 4, 2009
You and I were instant best friends when we met in first grade. We had some sweet young years together, playing in our respective back yards, sprawled on the floor of either home, watching Howdy Doody and Pinky Lee on TV, dawdling on the stools at the counter of your Dad’s luncheonette, chewing on those [...]
Annette | January 2, 2009
You think I don’t think of you, but you’re wrong.
So there.
Happy New Year, 1710.
I hope your best is yet to come.
Annette | December 25, 2008
On New Year’s Eve, Gil and Paul will have been together more than thirty years – I don’t remember the exact number. Except for our time together back in the sixties, I think Gil has always been with Paul and Paul with Gil.
They are the embodiment of good – good works, good [...]
Annette | October 23, 2008
Happy Birthday, darling Gil, Happy Birthday to you!
Was there ever a prettier cake or a more adorable birthday boy blowing out the candles? I wonder what he wished? I know what I wish for him – long life, health, love, happiness, and everything he has now – including me.
Here’s the love of my [...]
Annette | October 19, 2008
and last night, in Tuscany, there was, in his words, “the best birthday party I’ve ever had.”
I love this man, and all who meet him love him, too. I told him that the day he was born was the best day of my life.
Happy Birthday to you, my sweet prince………………….
Annette | October 3, 2008
…… and, of course, there was cake and ice cream ………..
…………………… and handsome big brothers on their best behavior …………….
…….. but when the party was over, the Princess announced, “Look, Daddy, I’m Princess Tippy-Toe Ballerina…………….
……… and she surely was.
Annette | September 29, 2008
……… and the most adorable.
Annette | September 23, 2008
have reached about 60% change. While it’s still almost summer here, in Vermont, where Wilson lives, there is color all around him, they have had two frosty nights, and we talked and talked today, of things past and things current, and not at all about the future, for we were always creatures of the [...]
Annette | September 19, 2008
He is having a hard week. Today was an especially lousy day for him. We were exchanging tidbits about our day, and I suddenly remembered that a gift he’d had sent to me had arrived, and it was a GREAT surprise and wonderful and I was thrilled and just delighted. My thank yous [...]
Annette | September 17, 2008
so I told her, in very abbreviated form, and her response was that she was now homesick for a place she’d never been. Can anyone pay a higher compliment?
I told her words to Larry, who was there, and he said, That’s it, it’s been homesickness.
Yes, I said. That was home, and we’ve missed [...]
Annette | September 16, 2008
Thanks forever to Larry’s Aunt Barbara:
Annette | September 3, 2008
Bernie was being nice, but Bernie is always nice. Just a good guy. And he knew how I felt about Bill O’Brien, so he sent me the link to the website one of Bill’s daughters had set up for him.
Oh, it is a beautiful thing! I wish it could stay there forever, [...]
Annette | August 24, 2008
You’re still my elder.
Annette | August 16, 2008
When you are old, old friends, when you’ve known each other for almost half a century, when you have been in each other’s hearts for that long, even if there were decades when you were all out of touch, busily building individual lives, there is a language that began when you met and nothing – [...]
Annette | July 22, 2008
The reunion of Christian and the two guys who raised him is pretty remarkable. You can see it here.
But, I figured it was doctored in any number of ways, Christian was drugged, stuff like that.
Here’s what snopes.com has to say about it.
The power of love…………
Annette | June 23, 2008
We were exchanging thoughts on the passing of George Carlin, and I told him this:
“When my Sardinian step-grandfather died, one of the things I got was his old Larousse. He’d walked across France to get to La Rochelle to be able to get on a boat to get to America. Turn of the [...]
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