Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 Lucille Ball is here to show you how a proper lady celebrates this glorious day!

Lucille Ball dressed up for St. Patrick's Day

Not everyone necessarily thinks this holiday should be celebrated, nor that St. Patrick should be honored. In the interest of fairness, we're giving those people equal time and space this year.

St Patrick's Day protesters by Hannes Bok


Sunday, April 9, 2023

The Easter Bunny Back-ups

Once again this year Shades of Gray is ready to spring into action if the Easter Bunny needs help. This year's Captain of the Bunny Bunch is Tallulah Willis, promoted from main back-up Back-up Bunny after her strong showing last year! (She looks a little haggard. We hope she's up for the task...)

Back-up Easter Bunny Tallulah Willis


 Joining Ms. Willis and eager for some egg-distributing action is her fellow veteran Bunny Debbie Harry...






















... as well as Dorothy Sebastian. She's going to handle all logistical matters, so she's trying to think through any potential problems before they occur.

Dorothy Sebastian, Back-up Easter Bunny

Meanwhile, if anything proves too tough for these three ladies to handle, John Wayne's on hand! (Goldie Hawn was going to be the fourth bunny, but we got the costume size wrong....)

Back-up Easter Bunny John Wayne



Friday, April 7, 2023

Observing Good Friday with Jesus and Mo!


Jesus and Mo


THIS WEEK WITH JESUS & MO







And to make this observation of the longest three-day weekend in history picture perfect, we present a pair of appropriate photos.

Patricia Roc on Good Friday/Easter

 

Thursday, December 15, 2022

We're making sure Santa stays on schedule!

All of us here at Shades of Gray have taken part-time jobs at Santa's Workshop to ensure that all the toys for the good girls and boys are ready for the Big Guy's Christmas Run.

Clara Bow has been given what is perhaps the most important task of all of us: She's the Lead Quality Control Inspector, making sure that none of the rest of us are accidentially making dangerous toys!

Clara Bow, Santa's Helper



Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving!

We here at Shades of Gray hope everyone who is celebrating Thanksgiving--whether they are at home in the U.S. or away in another country--are together with family or friends and enjoying some good food!

The festivities here have derailed a bit. First, Joan Blondell crashed the plane carrying the after-dinner treats, then Leila Hyams decided to adopt the turkey we were going to butcher and cook. While we'll have lots of side dishes brought by guests, the main course will be a couple frozen lasagnas, fresh from the microwave.

Leila Hayems and a turkey


(Actually, in all seriousness... we're going to have a nice Thanksgiving with plenty of good food. We may have to work, but we are thankful for our friends, our jobs, and all of you who visit this blog to check out the reviews and silliness!)

Friday, April 1, 2022

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

It's St. Patty's Day!

 Since gender-flipping is all the rage these days, we here at Shades of Gray have turned St. Patrick into St. Patty. This majestic figure of revised legend stands ready to hook snakes, drop them in cages, and humanely relocate them to somewhere far away.

Peggy Knudsen on St. Patrick's Day


Monday, August 3, 2020

Happy National Watermelon Day!

I made a joke about Taco Tuesday to someone I know from Australia. Her response was, "Americans and their weird holidays..."

The fact there is such a thing as National Watermelon Day, and no one seems to know who first declared August 3rd to be that day, nor when it was first named so--the earliest reference I could find to it was in 2015, but my Google-Fu is weak--seems to prove her point.

National Watermelon Day is celebrated every year on August 3rd by... well, eating watermelon. That's it.

Weird holiday or not, we here at Shades of Gray encourage everyone to enjoy some tasty watermelon to mark this very special day. We will be--whille Bebe Daniels will be performing the traditional Watermelon song. (And we all hope you will have more fun than Harold Lloyd... he doesn't like watermelon, the freak!)


Sunday, June 14, 2020

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Christmas is coming...

... and Esther Ralston is putting the final touches on the decorations here at Shades of Gray! Have you gotten yours up yet?


Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving to my American visitors!

I wish all my American visitors and readers have a happy Thanksgiving with friends and family. And I want to say that I am thankful for the few dozen of you out there who visit regularly, whether you're American or not!

Ann Blyth Thanksgiving greeting

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Halloween is coming...

... and Dorothy Sebastian is getting the decorations ready and trying out costume ideas. How about you?


(And don't miss the 31 Nights of Halloween film and music festival, currently unfolding at our sister blog, Terror Titans!)


Monday, September 2, 2019

Happy Labor Day!

Cathy O'Donnell had to work on this Labor Day, but I hope most of you out there had a chance to enjoy some rest and time with friends.



Thursday, July 18, 2019

It's National Hot Dog Day!

It's National Hot Dog Day today, July 18... and since Oscar Mayer now makes hotdogs (cheese dogs--yum!) I can actually eat (none of the preservatives I'm allergic to!) I shall have one celebrate! Maybe I'll have several... and have them brought to me, worn by fair maidens!






Thursday, July 4, 2019

Happy Independence Day to the U.S.A.


Little Known Fourth of July Fact:

Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse is why
fireworks are now labeled with safety warnings.