Monday morning stream of consciousness, or: Why I Finally Got Out of Bed
We were expecting Joe.My.Contractor. bright and early with people to start hammering and otherwise destroying the sanctity of my home. But I couldn’t bear to get out of bed. Why is it that when you have to get up, the bed is at its most comfortable? I’m sure there’s some physics law to explain it. So even though I knew I should get up, I couldn’t. And this is how my stream of consciousness went:
…want to sleep… could get coffee… steaming cup of coffee… steam… Adam’s steam room fantasy in He’s the One… steam room on Queer as Folk with Brian Kinney… same guys did the TV show Sisters, with those women always in the steam room… Sisters… what were their names? All boys’ names… Swoosie was Georgie… No, Georgie was the strong sister that everybody confided in… wonder whatever happened to that actress… So who was Swoosie? Freddie? Frankie? Or am I thinking of Frankie from Another World? Damn… Okay, think… Sela Ward was Teddy, the drunk designer who was divorced from the hot guy and later dated George Clooney’s character… Damn Sela Ward, who would ever believe she’s fifty. She looks amazing… someone should hold her down and make her eat donuts… Didn’t Tim say he bought donuts last night? mmmmm, donuts… Homer Simpson… Concentrate! Sela was Teddy… And Ashley Judd, who kind of looks like Sela, was Swoosie’s daughter… But what the hell was Swoosie’s name… And that mother of theirs. Did she ever smile? Sort of like Tyne Daley on Judging Amy… Tyne Daley was also grumpy on Cagney and Lacey with Sharon Gless, who was Debbie on Queer as Folk… Is that how this started? Queer as Folk? No, no… I’m trying to think of the sisters’ names! Focus! Sela was Teddy and whateverhernameis–wasn’t she a bitch on Thirtysomething? was Georgie… Okay, so Teddy’s ex married the youngest sister, who was Bruce Springsteen’s dumped wife… er, Jennilee? No, that’s Jenilee Harrison, Three’s Company’s replacement for Suzanne Somers… Actually, Jenilee Harrison sort of looks like Bruce’s dumped wife, whose name is… Julianne! Like Julianne Moore, who played twins on Another World, the show with a character named Frankie… No, wait. Crazy-assed Anne Heche played those twins. Julianne Moore played twins on As the World Turns. I can’t believe Tim’s watching As the World Turns. Why am I thinking about Julianne Moore? Oh, yeah. Springsteen’s ex, Julianne played… not Charlie. None of the sisters was named Charlie… There’s a fragrance that’s here to stay and they call it: CHARLIE!… Funny that Shelley Hack was the Charlie girl and ended up playing Kate Jackson’s replacement on Charlie’s Angels… I wonder where Shelley Hack is today… or for that matter, Bruce Springsteen’s first wife… whose name on the show was WHAT??? Was there a Frankie after all? Yeah, Julianne played Frankie… and wasn’t there a Charlie? Didn’t Frankie/Julianne leave the show… to go where, who knows, was she ever seen again? It would suck to be dumped by Bruce for another woman… Frankie left the show and an illegitimate daughter showed up… did she belong to the sour-faced mother or the dead father… maybe her name was Charlie… So recap… Strong sister played by ex-Thirtysomething was named Georgie… Freaking gorgeous Sela Ward played always-in-trouble sister Teddy… Workaholic Frankie was played by Bruce’s ex-Julianne… so what was the name of the ditzy sister that Swoosie Kurtz played?
The need to know that answer drove me from the bed before nine so I could google. What I learned: Swoosie played ALEX. Charlie-the-illegitimate-daughter-of-the-dead-father was spelled Charley. And television seems to dominate the waking thoughts of someone who says she doesn’t watch it.
It’s almost 1:30 now. Joe.My.Contractor. never came. I could have slept!
To console myself, I think I’ll go get a donut from Tim to go with my steaming coffee. I hope I don’t interrupt As the World Turns. I wonder if the Hughes twins are still on there…
Thanks for the laugh!! I always go straight to IMDB.com for my tv quandries.
I’m usually a Wikipedia girl, because it provides the most number of links that can take me astray from my original quest and keep me from doing anything productive for a longer period of time.
Are you sure you are’nt one of my students??
ME TOO!!
Although I would have known SISTERS anywhere.
hahah
you know, i was just thinking the other day that swoosie kurtz has been in several things that i’ve watched lately. ‘citizen ruth’, ‘rules of attraction’, and ‘pushing daisies’.
upon looking at her imdb.com page, she’s been in EVERYTHING, so no wonder i’ve seen her so much!
I’m glad she’s working–unlike Julianne Phillips (Frankie!) and Patricia Kalember (Georgie!). Although apparently Patricia Kalember plays a judge on Law and Order: SVU. Since I don’t watch that, I didn’t know.
She plays one of the Aunts in Pushing Daisies
i like the idea of the show and the way it looks, but i’m just not finding myself glued to the set when it’s on.
I watch it on line every week … I can’t wait till it comes out. It’s so fairy tale! And I love Olive!
haha – olive’s a mess!
it reminds me lots of ‘big fish’ (which i just LOVED), so i dunno why i can’t get into it.
LOL…I have it set to tape every week. I Love Olive too…I actually saw it for the first time because I was channel surfing and saw Christine Chenoweth…so I stopped. I fell in love with the Pie Maker. damn that man is sexy….and I couldn’t tell you why but I just want to wrap myself around him.
And Swoosie, and Ellen Green (little shop, little shop of horrors—somewhere that’s green) I mean how could I **not** watch this show.
Now see I think he’s a little on the uggo side. Not for me. But I love that Olive
The time of your post says 1:22 am, so I hopeful that you were able to go back to bed and then do this all over again, but without the dreaded first steps of actually stepping out of bed…
And now I want a donut.
Nope, awake since around eight, out of bed since before nine. I got a wonderful four and a half hours of sleep.
Ugh. I do hope you get some sleep tonight.
‘Why is it that when you have to get up, the bed is at its most comfortable? I’m sure there’s some physics law to explain it.’
There must be a law to explain it, it’s amazing how I can be awake all night, yet when it’s time to get up my body finally decides it’s ready to sleep.
Hm.
Daughter of the dead father. Crazy sisters.
I think “Brothers and Sisters” is the crazy love child of just “Sisters”!
Steam rooms. Oh, “QAF”!!!!
yikes
I’m glad I didn’t see this until I got home from work, it is exhausting (and HILARIOUS) to read. If I could only make all of those connections at one time… Did it make your brain hurt to be thinking so hard? Donuts and coffee, the best way to start the day (assuming, of course, one has to start the day…).
Re: yikes
I think you’d be surprised at the number of thoughts that fire through your brain in any given few seconds. Do you ever do that thing in which you suddenly realize you’re thinking of something and wonder, How the hell did I get to this? then trace it back? I love doing that, only sometimes I really can’t find the path back to the original thought.
Re: yikes
I know what she means, though. I think of 17 things at once, which is why I have insomnia, and the pills the doctor gave me are to stop me from thinking when I sleep, but that scares me a bit.
Interesting and poignant, I had my students write stream of conscious thought to a song by Peter Gabrielle, I Grieve. They enjoyed it so much. The idea is the cognitive cycles of the brain sparking off ideas into the conscious through random thought patterns, thus creating avenues for writing topics. It’s an awesome process. A woman, Wendy Bishop, from FSU, did studies on it before she died. It apparently proved that it was a a fantastic way to digress from one thing to another, but ending up in a pattern that could be traced through the trails of thought. I love it.
Lol…thanks for the blast from the past.
I was such an Another World boy growing up. I loved Frankie and her man Cass, and of course, his ex, Cecile De Poulinac (or however you spelled it).
I of course, modeled my musings on the long suffering classy grand dame Rachel……I would wander around the house imagining I was suffering her trials and tribulations while looking gothic and elegant……sigh……
Poulignac.
You rock, Becky Cochrane. If you’d played a character on Sisters I bet she would have been called Rocky.
That’s me, Rocky Reed. The sister they.don’t.talk.about.
I’d rather be Rocky Road, the ice cream heiress.
Oy, it’s waaaaaaay too early to be awake and at the airport.
“Why is it that when you have to get up, the bed is at its most comfortable?”
I wonder . . .???
Don’t know any of the shows you mention, but the rambling/stream of consciousness . . . oh yes!!!!
Thanks for sharing – I’m still smiling!!