Odds and Ends

[kybearfuzz]

Just a few odds and ends of the weekend and such:

• I watched a documentary called "David Cassidy: The Last Session" this weekend. Now I was never a huge "Partridge Family" fan, but I would watch it on occasion and I thought the music was fun. After he died, I went to iTunes and bought several of his songs and found that he was actually a very good singer. The documentary showed that he was quite the pop star. It's strange to see it now as a 45-year-old man, because I don't seem him as these young girls saw him. I've heard from folks who were teenagers in the early 1970's that his level of fame was astounding at the time. What I learned from the documentary was that he really had no control over the show or the concerts, but was literally swept away with the huge wave of manufactured popularity. Things appeared to happen so fast that I doubt he had much of any chance (or overall desire) to say no to anything. The documentary goes into his last recording sessions before his death. His voice was clearly damaged by hard living and substance abuse, but it was still familiar. I did notice that the film didn't dive into his children, including his daughter actress Katie Cassidy, who he didn't raise and freely admits that he had little interaction with her.



• I did spend some time on Saturday drawing pages for Issue #25 of my comic. It's been very slow coming this round, but part of it has been work and family stuff that required my attention. I still have a few pages left to pencil and I hope the inking goes faster.



• Sunday I had a bit of scratchiness in my throat, like it was very dry, and I was afraid that I was getting strep. I have some work travel coming up and I didn't want to deal with being sick and traveling after my last trip having problems with my knee. I went to Urgent Care and the doctor said I don't have strep, but she thinks I have "thrush," a fungal infection usually seen in infants. They're culturing it to make sure, but I'm already on the meds as a precaution. It could be allergies acting up, but it's good to fix it now before the trip.

Comments

[dendren]

I remember having more interest in Sean Cassidy than David Cassidy, and then Sean's Hardy Boys brother Parker Stevenson even more than the Cassidy's combined. Ooooooh Parker Stevenson. Crushes of childhood past.

Thrush shows up in a lot of people, not just infants. It used to be a huge problem for people with AIDS because of immune system issues. Have you been on antibiotics recently? It's very common to have it come up after a round of antibiotics, but thankfully easy to treat for those with regular immune systems.

[kybearfuzz]

I thought Shaun was cutest, but as I got older Parker's hairy chest grabbed my attention more.

And I've not been on antibiotics, so I'm curious what's happening. And the doctor said that it could be something else, the culture hasn't come back yet.