Tuesday with Tilley
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Today we mourn the passing of an American actress whom I knew very little of. I understand she will most be remembered for her TV performance as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers. I only know her as an actress who had a constant battle with weight. It was those commercials for diet products that I most recall.
She died at the age of 71 after a brief battle win cancer.
On a much lighter note, the cheap hotel known as "Super Eight" is releasing a line of scented candles. They are of the unusual variety:
PARSIPPANY, N.J., (November 15, 2022) — Road trips come and go, but lovers of the open road can rejoice this holiday season. Super 8 by Wyndham, one of the world’s largest economy hotel brands and trusted roadside companion, is launching a limited-edition candle collection, Scents of the Open Road, featuring eight scented candles that smell — collectively — like a road trip.
Available beginning December 1, 2022, the collection includes eight unexpected scent combinations designed to provide an experience that evokes the feelings of the open road. From highways to byways, gas station pit stops, early morning wakeups and tasty road-side snacks, with more than 1,200 hotels across the U.S., the Super 8 passion for measuring road trips by moments – not mile markers – serves as inspiration for the iconic collection. Scent seekers can experience the entire collection for $19.74, a nod to the opening of the brand’s first hotel in 1974.
“For nearly 50 years, Super 8 has served as a beloved roadside companion to some of the most passionate road warriors out there,” said Mike Mueller, president, Super 8 by Wyndham and brand operation. “When you travel you get a real sense of a place by taking in the smells around you so when we started to think about how to approach this candle collection, we tapped into our roots to create scents based on what we believe our guests truly love and long for. The spirit of the open road is not just an expression, it’s a feeling – one we’ve bottled up for guests to bring home and relive this holiday season.”
Scents of the Open Road: A Super Collection of Candles features eight unique scents, available as 4oz candles in a collection. Each candle was crafted to provide a unique sensory experience designed to conjure up scents from the open road and a welcoming stay at a Super 8 hotel. The entire set includes:
- Snack Time – Smokey, savory beef jerky, the perfect road trip snack.
- Pit Stop – Glorious gasoline, the fuel that keeps the journey going.
- Roam Free – A windows down, spirit of the open road kind-of feeling.
- Brain Freeze – Thirst-quenching cherry slushie, a truly sweet cup-holder treat.
- Lite Bite – Because every great morning starts with a little something to get you started .
- Morning Jolt – Fresh ground coffee, for those get-up-and-go kind of days.
- Tucked In – Crisp, clean linen, essential for a super night’s sleep .
- Fresh Feels – Fresh and reinvigorating, like a hot shower after a long day’s drive.
The collection comes packaged in a modern, bespoke black box with the signature Super 8 branding adorned throughout, reflective of redesigned Super 8 guest rooms — featuring stylish bedding, sleek finishings, and modern amenities. Each candle is hand-poured in the US with a soy wax blend that burns clean, bright and consistently. The fragrances used are highly concentrated and phthalate free. A limited number of candle sets will include a voucher for 30,000 Wyndham Rewards points, enough for up to four nights at a Super 8 by Wyndham.
A perfect gift for the road trip lover, the collection will be available for $19.74 (not including tax) exclusively at www.super8.com/roadtripcandles for purchase from the manufacturer on December 1, 2022, at 8:00AM EST while supplies last.
New Super 8® Candle Collection Smells Like an Epic Road Trip - WHG Corporate (wyndhamhotels.com)
Imagine the scent of fresh ground coffee from a candle?
Then there is the performance of Tom Brady. He led the Bucs to an unlikely victory over the New Orleans Saints with two back-to-back late 4th quarter touchdowns in a game in which the Saints dominated for 3 quarters. Hes still got it!
Finally. I have to explain what made me dedicate this to American/Canadian actress Meg Tilley. As everyone may know You Tube is not as free as it once was. I have this private little game where I check for movies on You Tube that are still free. You can't really expect to find classic movies there for free, so it's the interesting little movies that I enjoyed, that I tend to look for. Woodey Allen once made a movie that I thought was his best titled "Bullets over Broadway." When I checked You Tube I got a little surprise. It was a movie You Tube was charging people for yet right next to it was a very good copy that a member had donated. In that movie is a young Tilley playing the role of the untalented performer that the play's main financial backer has conditioned financing in return for a role for her. Tilley along with that entire cast was great in that movie. I hadn't seen it in a long time and it was like having an old friend over for lunch.
Tilley was also a very good Poker player.
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Just a few very random thoughts on a Tuesday morning.
Was watching reruns of the Match Game the other day and was surprised when Kirstie Alley was a contestant. I don't remember exactly when this aired originally but it was far before her rise to fame as an actress.
1979
There you go!
I knew it was in the 70's just couldn't exactly remember when.
I always like to see those times when they had some inclination to being in front of the camera. I recall a young comedy writer being on the "dating game:"
I love watching these old shows. Really displays how bad things have gotten. "You can't say this because you'll offend somebody", "you can't do that because you'll offend somebody". Pure garbage. Let them be offended.
You've got that right.....................
That was a good time to be alive.
Without a doubt.
Mel Brooks couldn't make a movie nowadays.
Oh hell no. Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part 1 would be a 3 minute movies if they edit it for today's audiences.
Exactly. Too many liberal snowflakes would be all faux-offended and have meltdowns.
Those and Monty Python's Life of Brian are my go to movies when a snowflake asks me for a good movie to watch.
Good thing Don Rickles isn't around anymore
LOL!
And Lenny Bruce thought HE had it rough!
Watched Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn the day before yesterday. Kirstie Alley as the Vulcan officer LT Saavik'
I was never a Star Trek fan. But I loved The Wrath of Kahn (far better than these new movies). I completely forgot she was in it.
She made a guest appearance on the King of Queens, in which she was someone struggling with her diet and asked Carrie to eat certain things and tell her all about how they tasted:
Watching that MNF football game was painful.
Maybe Brady will realize that he was a pathetic performer for 58 minutes with zero drive, seemingly
past his prime, blaming everyone else and publicly expressing some pretty poor sportsmanship
to his teammates and the officials.
What was evident in the last 2 minutes was that he still has the talent
but not the drive to do it for 60 minutes.
He should have stayed married and retired IMHO.
Years later, these sketches are still just as funny.