RIP Matthew Perry

I’ve aged like a fine wine.

I’ve got a gray beard and huge bags under my eyes, but I’m also in the best physical shape of my life and still have a full head of long, flowing brown hair.

 

Harlan Ellison is the only person who has ever been able to present a laugh track with any kind of a redeemable feature, and the narrator of that story listened for his late aunt's laugh in sitcoms.

Some people like to make science of it. That's not to say video empty calories are bad. Frex, I love 3rd Rock From The Sun and Abbott Elementary. It's interesting to me that some shows such as Friends can inspire both ire and adoration for decades. I was joking about the Truck Nutz thing. I think. Now I wonder if I could do it.

Garrow beat me to it. Even the weaker second season of The Comeback was better than most of what was on television at the time.

 

Bridget Fonda is 59.

Yeah, age and gravity, but she looks nothing like she did.

Before/after:

 

One of my college boyfriends never, ever missed Flying Blind because they always showed Leoni being all cheesecakey in at least a scene or two.

I probably look my age or older since the heart stuff happened. Older but possibly a tad better. Or not.

Truck Nutz!

 

What's going on with Fonda's gloves, and that weird coffee cup holder? Those are signs of a wacka doodle

 

She likes Minions — a lot.

 

Wait ... stop ... is this abbreviation something The Young People are now doing? Is it newspaper shorthand that I somehow missed in my decades in the industry? Did The Cools on Twitter invent it?

 

Is it a cup holder at all? Looks to me like a cup inside of a cup inside of a cup.

She just likes her beverages, seems to me.

 

"In Heaven, it is always Autumn"
-John Donne

 

I’m completely stumped as to why she would’ve retreated from the public eye.

 

I don't want to be cruel, because I really liked Bridget Fonda during her early years, but dang. I am no Adonis and never have been, but I don't think I looked dramatically worse at 55 than I had at 35. (Actually now at 65 I think I look better than I did then, because I've dumped off some of my middle-age lard and I've gotten thinner around the face) And I didn't have the wherewithal to eat nutritionally sound stuff and work out with trainers.
But, it happens. An extra scoop here and there, another burger, 30 years have got behind you ...

 

Now we're going to be accused of fat-shaming. At least she ever looked awesome in her life. That is something for anyone to feel good about at any age.

Postscript: Net worth is $50 million.