Throwback Thursday: “Gloria” (1984)

I think we can all agree that “Gloria” is the least remembered of the “All in the Family” sequels. It ran for a single season on CBS in 1984. I seem to remember it leaning a little too far into melodrama, and too little into the over-the-top antics of “Archie Bunker.” (Nobody I knew ever called “All in the Family” by its proper title back in the day; the kids just called the show “Archie Bunker.”)

Anyway, the opening theme here is such an odd little 80’s chestnut that I couldn’t resist sharing it.



Variant Cover to “Daredevil: Unleash Hell” #1, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, 2025

Marvel Comics.

Critterwatch 2026, Continued.

Critters spotted:

  1. house finches
  2. robins
  3. ravens (they are seriously large birds, people, holy shit)
  4. sparrows (the kind with the striped faces, passer domesticus)
  5. northern mockingbirds (the kind with those little white racing stripes on the wings)
  6. the giant, creepy-ass turkey vultures are back! (Or, at least one was.)
  7. giant grasshoppers! (Probably Melanoplus differentialis.)
  8. ugh, earwigs
  9. green lacewings, which are actually really pretty insects


“Vulture,” Antoine-Louis Barye, 19th Century

Cover to “Haunt: The Complete Collection,” Todd McFarlane, 2025

Image Comics.

Giant Grasshopper!!!

For a minute, I thought this was the “Beginning of the End!”

Nah, it was just a larger differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).

Illustration of a Finch from “A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds, Ploceidae, and Arboreal and Terrestrial finches, Fringillidae,” 1888

The artist’s signature reads “F.W.F.”

On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen.

And we are grateful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Photo credit: Tom McClintock, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Allison’s Haiku

A portraiture of

heterochromia are

your rococo eyes.



Photo credit: Socrasal, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“Portrait of Daughter Mary Stuck With a Wreath of Daisies,” Franz von Stuck, circa 1910

“To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived …”

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