Off the wall...

Finally getting on the other side of a week-long bout with one them thar virus thangs that has been plaguing the population of late. And as is my wont, the 'bug' usually shows up as fevers and chest congestion, leaving me sounding like Brenda Vaccaro on a bad day. And that made me wonder about Ms. Vaccaro: Would anyone in today's generation -- other than serious film buffs -- even know to whom I am referring? Whatever happened to that husky voiced actress? And what did she sound like when she had a bronchial ailment? Tallulah Bankhead?

This ponderation led me to Google Ms. Vaccaro and I was intrigued by her biographical listings. A few sites listed her as a restaurateur from Dallas who moved to N.Y. and made it big on Broadway that led to her T.V. roles and Oscar nominated films. Wikkipedia even listed her as deceased at age 93 but didn't say what year that happened. A different Google listing that caught my eye was her listing in the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health for a 1981 magazine ad for Playtex tampons. Allrightey then.... I feel slightly out of my Sisterhood in that I did not know there was such a museum. And I have prudently decided to not further this line of inquiry by visiting that site.

Yet, further along the Camino Surreal, I also learned today in an unrelated internet article that there is a secretary general of the World Association for Sexual Health.

Where were all these organizations when I was a curious youth?

If you are scratching your head at my stream of consciousness today, imagine what my mind would have been like if I actually took Nyquil or something?