KNIVES IN KNOTS

Well, well, well, for some folk, it's a "feast day" with the emphasis on "feast." It's Saint Patrick's Day. KNIVES IN KNOTS likes the corned beef; likes the cabbage; but KIK doesn't like it in that "Corned beef and cabbage" kind of way. Given that, and the fact that one of us was "christened" with the name, "Patrick," after You-Know-Who, we make room at the table for the Venerable, as long as he doesn't get out the shamrock and start proselytizing. Despite having a heck of a lot of charm and charisma, as far as feast days go, it's just not a big day around these parts, where the corned beef usually winds up on New York deli-style Reuben sandwiches.    Supper menu: Warm biscuits and  Gaeilge "rud beag" Boxty with a capital B! Reuben sandwiches. Has the corned beef, has the cabbage. 'Nuff said. Here you go. Have some corned beef and cabbage with Saint You-Know-Who!   Whatever you do, don't say his...

We wrote the first draft of this blog just after the 65th birthday of Lisa Loring, who has since passed away and was the first actor to portray "Wednesday Addams" in a media production.  If you're reading this, you probably know, too, that Loring could really tear up the (F)rug "Drewing" on the 1964-66 television horrorcom, "The Addams Family," the first non-print media presentation of the Charles Addams comic strip family. But who would this woeful but winsome child, this Wednesday in long, twin tail braids, one day become?  Let's share a strange interlude and consider some options.   First, we have this child and she can really dance. Not sure if she can sing, but she's already showing some performance promise, so let's just go with it. Aside from the dancing, she's got potential! On her mother's side, Aunt Ophelia Frump. Note the hair-braid action, the ecstatic beauty, the dipsy-daisy head-gear of an Alphonse Mucha model from Cze...