betty_white nr living to 99 is pretty impressive, but it always seemed like she'd be around forever. 211231 ... unhinged her career of the past twenty years or so has been highly entertaining to me the characters she plays these days are a million times sassier than the dumb blonde she played on golden girls 220101 ... epitome of incomprehensibility It's almost eerie how so many famous and at-least-halfway-decent people seem to be dying recently: Anne Rice, Joan Didion, bell hooks, Desmond Tutu, and now Betty White. What's up with that? Is heaven preparing for war with the Spirit Realm of the Abandoned Socks? Does that require nabbing artists and visionaries from our earthly dwelling, and why? 220101 ... e_o_i (And what's if Betty White joins the side of the evil socks? Don't the gods think about these things??) 220102 what's it to you? who go blather from