How I missed this, I'll never know... but I can honestly say that I'm rather saddened at the passing of a celebrity last Sunday that I didn't hear about until last night...

Thanks to Krofft.Net for the image above...

Charles Nelson Reilly was a fixture of American television for many years... and a Tony Award winning actor from the stage...

To me, he was one of the more witty and funny panelists on my mother's favourite daytime show, Matchgame... and the evil warlock "Hoodoo" in Sid and Marty Krofft's Lidsville...

Thanks to Krofft.Net for the image above...

To younger folks, they may remember him from a one-episode shot on The X-Files and Millennium where he plays a writer named Jose Chung... I remember the "X-Files" episode best for the bleeping narrative when one of the bleeping people he bleeping interviews bleeps.

The joy I had at seeing him on the "tube" again... that made a good episode even better.

Reilly also was the voice of more animated characters than one can shake a stick at...

Reilly never "came out publicly" as a gay man... but did he need to? Like Paul Lynde, it was not exactly a mystery... did it matter anyway?

He did discuss it in his one-man stage show, Save It for the Stage... but even he made a point of "Who Cares?" about his lifestyle...

The film, The Life of Reilly is based on this show and has won a plethora of awards... here's the synopsis...

If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon?

Charles Joseph Reilly passed away on Sunday at the age of 76 leaving his longtime partner, Patrick Hughes III... and our thoughts are with Mr. Hughes during this time.

Oh, and wanna know how much I liked him? I used the image below TWICE in this blog... as it was a PERFECT image for my more long-winded posts...

Okay, on to the bidness of these Saturday posts... There's been no movement at all on the bus... not even for my birthday this past Thursday... despite being told by a psychic who e-mailed me that they felt that the bus was coming to us then, it sadly wasn't.

Fiscally, there's no change... how the bus is doing is, apparently, the same... and due to a hectic week, the former bit is not too surprising. I really haven't had the time to promote and try harder... hopefully this week coming up will be different.

I did think about trying this...

Think it'll work?

If this is your first time here and are wondering why this bus is so important to us, you'll notice one post on our "Most Searched" list on the sidebar... and it's one of the MAIN reasons that I'm doing everything I can to make this dream come true... Click here to read it if you haven't already.

Well, it's a NEW week with NEW possibilities... and with any luck, I'll be thumping the boards, so to speak, to see if I can increase our dream's public face and perhaps find someone who will help us make it come true.

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