Satur-deja Vu

We missed a deja vu post but these celebrity deaths are just in the past week. Chuck Mangione passed this week as well, someone will mention it if I don’t. So far in the first half of 2025 we have also lost Bob Uecker, Gene Hackman, Roberta Flack, George Foreman, Val Kilmer, Ruth Buzzi, George Wendt, Phil Robertson, Sly Stone, Brian Wilson, Connie Francis and Pope Francis (no relation on those last two). There have been others but those are the names I would expect most people to recognize. You may not recognize the name Martha Knighton but chances are you have seen her before in something.

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Satur-deja Vu

Before I joined Facebook, before Twitter existed, there was WordPress. In 17 years I have put up 2,025 posts, logged 2,593 comments and as of Friday evening have 800,558 views. (If you included stats from My Other Blog, which preceded The Master’s Table by a couple of months, that adds another 465,835 views). Blogging is not what it used to be; in 2012 I had over 124,000 just that year alone. Like I say, Facebook and YouTube were relatively new and there was no Twitter, FB Reels, TikTok or Instagram yet. People were so bored they read stuff that I wrote!

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