Rest in peace, Estelle Getty.

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When I send her emails with links and later ask if she read them, she sometimes says yes, but when I ask her questions or start a discussion about the content, it becomes quite clear that maybe she just read the title or the first line or looked at the picture or said to her work friends, “Look, another email from Linsey. Watch me delete it without even opening it.”
Scissor toes
She works in a library, so when she calls me from work, she speaks in hushed tones which, coupled …

I’ve been suffering from some sort of head/nose/sinus related malady that has kept me from the computer nearly all week. My doctor suggested it was a virus, not just the worlds worst sinus infection, and yesterday when I made Janie come home early from work because I was sure I might need to go to the hospital, I started to think he might be right. I hesitate to say that I’m better because I only just woke up and, though I am feeling better, I was also feeling better …

The Oregon State Hospital, where One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed, is being torn down. What’s more fascinating than the demolition is the story of the hospital itself, including these tidbits:

91 mental patients were hired as extras during the filming of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
The film’s director lived at the hospital for six weeks and encouraged actors to spend time with the patients.
In 2004, lawmakers touring the facility came across a storage room holding copper cannisters containing the the cremated remains of 3,600 mental patients …

You go ahead and watch John and Kate Plus 8.  I’ll just lay on the floor behind the couch and cry.