Continuing.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/20/2026 02:20 AM
"Scopolamine?"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/eric-dane-greys-anatomy-and-euphoria-star-dies-at-53-nearly-1-year-after-revealing-als-diagnosis-023808459.html
Yahoo! News
Eric Dane, 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Euphoria' star, dies at 53 nearly 1 year after revealing ALS diagnosis
Kaitlin Reilly, Reporter
Updated Thu, February 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM PST 5 min read
Actor Eric Dane died of complications related to ALS on Thursday
The actor, known for his roles in Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria, revealed his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in April 2025.
https://people.com/eric-dane-diagnosed-with-als-exclusive-11713179
People
Eric Dane Announces He Has Been Diagnosed with ALS (Exclusive)
“I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter,” the actor tells PEOPLE exclusively
By Vanessa Etienne and Julie Jordan Updated on April 10, 2025 08:12PM EDT
ALS
From Wikipedia
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disease defined by the progressive loss
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/29/2025 11:57 PM
It's that damn pillow.
This stupid desk isn't helping.
Recently, started sleeping in my bed with my head on a new pillow. It's causing me problems, starting a couple days ago. Scary problems.
Only reason I am making this note is because of "Dark Matter", that series on AppleTV adapted from the novel of the same name by Blake Crouch.
This campaign of mine has reached a very puzzling stage and I am guessing this is why it all started in the very first place: because of what I now discover
So, there is a large chasm between where I am now and where I want to be, preferably where I want to be today
To cross the chasm, I need to define what exists in the chasm.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: December 16, 2017 6:42 pm
The whole point was to not check the numbers until I got back.
I still remember how suddenly the snowfall arrived yesterday. Perhaps my vantage point on the metro bus diminished that somewhat. I couldn't in the direction ahead of the bus. But it was a sudden outburst of snow.
I got off the bus in downtown Spokane and after a few steps, my right foot slipped on the sidewalk, looking down, seeming in slow motion to it all, to see a narrow skid-mark exposing under the snow a shiny gray metal plate.
I didn't fall but, in what seemed to be slow motion, my right-foot was sliding forward and my left-foot planted firmly behind me and I felt my left knee gently reach the pavement and then I reached out to a railing with my right hand and brought myself back up. A few hours later I discovered that astronaut statue.
from topic previously posted here by me:
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Mr. R.I.N.G.
Quotes
[first lines]
Carl Kolchak: [Voiceover of a groggy Kolchak has been doped by the Feds] I don't know when I was in this office last. In some ways it feels like I never left.
[pause]
Carl Kolchak: No, that's not right. For a while I was away, far away, in the hands of men with no faces. They broke me down, broke my story down, and convinced me it hadn't happened the way I remembered.
Carl Kolchak: Memories fade fast enough without chemical help. But if I don't tell this story now, I'm afraid I never will.
of my original-work code-pattern
Event Date variable: 04/27/2025
Search Date variable: 12/11/2006
Search Date variable: 12/13/2006
The Lost Room s01e01
"The Key"
Wally: All that matters is the price. That's what nobody gets. There's always a price to pay for using the objects. Whether you know it or not, there's always a price.
Detective Joe Miller: What price did you pay?
Wally: I'm not the one you should be worried about. See, objects attract one another like magnets. You think we ran into each other by accident? Every time you use that key, it's like alarms going off. People are coming for you, Joe. Bad people. They're crawling out of the woodwork. They don't even know who you are, but they're already looking for you, probably emptying your underwear drawer right now looking for that thing. And I think you understand me when I say that they won't mind killing you or killing your family to get their hands on it.
From 12/11/2006 ( premiere USA TV series "The Lost Room" ) To 4/27/2025 ( ) is 6712 days
6712 = 3356 + 3356
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/10/1975 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Kolchak: The Night Stalker"::"Mr. R.I.N.G." ) is 3356 days
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) s01e12
"Mr. R.I.N.G."
I don't know where to begin.
Well, I don't either.
Why don't we start with nomenclature? What is RING - R-I-N-G, RING - supposed to mean?
RING comes from Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia.
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Mr. R.I.N.G.
Quotes
[last lines]
Carl Kolchak: [Kolchak is dictating into his tape recorder] I don't even know where they took me, now. At least I can't be sure. Maybe it was Tyrell Institute, but it could have just as well been the Black Hills of South Dakota for all I know. Was there a drug? Pentothal? Scopolamine? I can't be sure of that either, but there must have been something. I can't even be sure the events even happened the way I have told them. Perhaps when I am completely back in this world, I'll turn on this tape and not believe any of it myself, but I doubt it. Because I believe that somewhere, some place, they, or someone else, will put some other R.I.N.G. together without the help of Leslie Dwyer. And who... who will program him, then?
[He turns off the tape recorder]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Room
The Lost Room
From Wikipedia
Original release
December 11 – December 13, 2006
The Lost Room is a 2006 supernatural television miniseries
The series revolves around the titular room and some of the everyday items from that room which possess unusual powers. The show's protagonist, Joe Miller, is searching for these objects to rescue his daughter, Anna, who has disappeared inside the Room. Once a typical room at a 1960s motel along U.S. Route 66, the Lost Room has existed outside normal time and space since 1961, when what is referred to only as "the Event" took place.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/27/2025 11:43 AM
See, if the past is an illusion then nothing is real
Excerpt for this present moment, and now that's gone
Today CAUSED me to think of Novocain
Now I am wondering if I will see anything interesting today
Reality shifts to match
The entire content of this note is because today I suddenly, unexpectedly thought of Novocaine
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: We find you out here, where no human has any business being. We were virtually hijacked in space and brought here. Now I'm not just requesting an explanation, Mister. I'm demanding one.
Zefram COCHRANE: All right. It was the Companion.
KIRK: The what?
COCHRANE: That's what I call it. As a matter of fact, Captain, I didn't crash here. I was brought here in my disabled ship. I was almost dead. The Companion saved my life.
SPOCK: You were injured?
COCHRANE: I was dying
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 9:08 PM April 12, 2021
Somewhere, in my massive notes, I thought I noted part of the many conversations I had with that VA hospital psychiatrist
I remember sitting there in his office and I told him something was wrong with my head
Thought I noted that years ago but can't find it now
From 4/12/2021 ( ) To 4/27/2025 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
Star Trek Generations (1994)
(from internet transcript)
[Veridian III mountaintop]
PICARD: You don't need to do this, Soran. ...I'm sure we could find another way of getting you into this Nexus.
SORAN: I've spent eighty years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.
(Soran presses some buttons on a keypad and a rocket reveals itself on the launcher)
PICARD: What you're about to do Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too, ...including your wife ...and children.
SORAN: Nice try. ...You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. ...It's death. ...Afterwards I began to realise it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? ...It's like a predator. It's stalking you. ...Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end time is going to hunt you down, ...and make the kill.
PICARD: It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.
SORAN: What if I told you I've found a new truth.
PICARD: The Nexus?
SORAN: Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth.
From 11/17/1994 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek Generations" ) To 4/27/2025 ( ) is 11119 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"R & R" ) is 11119 days
Space: Above And Beyond
"R & R"
12 April 1996
Episode 15
Paul Wang: Got a bogey about 10K klicks out.
Shane Vansen: I.F.F. says... it's the Bacchus.
Paul Wang: Bacchus. It's like Vegas, New York City and Oz all rolled into one.
Vanessa Damphousse: Right now, I'd settle for a night in Buffalo.
Shane Vansen: Hold the chatter. We're still on patrol.
Shane Vansen: West! West! West, look alive!
Nathan West: Damn! Damn. I don't know how that happened.
Vanessa Damphousse: I do. Six back-to-back sorties at four hours a shot.
Cooper Hawkes: Man, it's getting weird. I'm seeing rabbits and squirrels and stuff hopping around my wings.
Shane Vansen: Keep your head screwed on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_(novel)
The Last Ship (novel)
From Wikipedia
The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley. The Last Ship tells the story of a United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS Nathan James (DDG-80), on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. It details the ship's ensuing search for a new home for her crew.
An eponymous television series loosely based on the novel aired from 2014 to 2018 on the TNT network.
The story is told in a first-person point of view by the ship's commanding officer, "Thomas", whose full name is never revealed.
From 4/25/1987 ( James Chandler, Captain, US Navy, assumes command of USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, my permanent fleet assignment from 1987 to 1990 ) To 5/9/2001 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek: Voyager"::"Homestead" ) is 5128 days
5128 = 2564 + 2564
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/9/1972 ( ) is 2564 days
From 11/9/1972 ( ) To 7/16/1994 ( biographical - Julian Schwinger dead {The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965} and also Comet Shoemaker-Levy event ) is 7919 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/9/1987 ( as me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, enlisted US Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2)(E-5), following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia, I arrived at my second US Navy fleet assignment the USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, for permanent duty until 1990 - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance ) is 7919 days
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199312/bio
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Eric Dane
Biography
Born November 9, 1972
Credit:
"The Last Ship" as CO CDR Tom Chandler
by me, Kerry Burgess - posted by H.V.O.M at 9:11 PM Sunday, May 06, 2007
04/10/07 11:31 AM
I had a very clear dream of me back in uniform and given a new assignment on a base. I can remember seeing that I was wearing the USN Captain insignia on my khakis. I walked into a room where a change of command was going on. I'm not sure if I was told this in the dream or if I am assuming that is what's happening. I know or assume that the two officer's in the change of command were subordinate officers to me and that they were Commander's. Their command was a subordinate command to mine. I remember from the dream shaking hands with one of them and introducing myself as Captain. I can't remember the name I gave her but I think I said Captain Thomas Ray. There is also some kind of element to that part of the dream; something about it seeming silly to introduce myself by stating my rank because that was obvious or I was stating the obvious. And another unusual part was that they wouldn't tell me which one of them was taking command during that ceremony and which one was relinquishing command. I felt comfortable being back in that role, but yet, I felt as though I was still missing a few too many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is my mind, for my comfort. I probably serve better now for a while as an independent operative rather than an officer in charge of a large command where subordinates have certain expectations of their Captain.
Oingo Boingo
Just Another Day Lyrics
(There's life underground)
I feel it all around / I feel it in my bones
My life is on the line / When I'm away from home
When I step out the door / The jungle is alive
I do not trust my ears / I don't believe my eyes
I will not fall in love / I cannot risk the bet
Cause hearts are fragile toys / so easy to forget
It's just another day / There's murder in the air
It drags me when I walk / I smell it everywhere
It's just another day / Where people cling to light
To drive away the fear / That comes with every night
CHORUS
It's just another . . . . . . . It's just another day
It's just another . . . . . . . It's just another day . . .
It's just another day--When people wake from dreams
With voices in their ears--That will not go away
I had a dream last night / The world was set on fire
And everywhere I ran / There wasn't any water
The temperature increased / The sky was crimson red
The clouds turned into smoke / And everyone was dead
(but) There's a smile on my face . . . For everyone
There's a golden coin . . . That reflects the sun
There's a lonely place . . . That's always cold
There's a place in the stars . . . For when you get old
There's razors in my bed / That come out late at night
They always disappear / Before the morning light
I'm dreaming again / Of life underground
It doesn't ever move / It doesn't make a sound
And just when I think--That things are in their place
The heavens are secure--The whole thing explodes in my face
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Burgess - posted by H.V.O.M at 9:11 PM Sunday, May 06, 2007
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/eric-dane-greys-anatomy-and-euphoria-star-dies-at-53-nearly-1-year-after-revealing-als-diagnosis-023808459.html
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Eric Dane, 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Euphoria' star, dies at 53 nearly 1 year after revealing ALS diagnosis
Kaitlin Reilly, Reporter
Updated Thu, February 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM PST 5 min read
Actor Eric Dane died of complications related to ALS on Thursday afternoon. He was 53.
Dane’s family confirmed his death with a statement to multiple outlets, sharing that he had “spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.”
The actor, known for his roles in Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria, revealed his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in April 2025. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease. It's rare, with about 5,000 Americans being diagnosed each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight,” the statement continues. “He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.”
In a June 2025 interview with Diane Sawyer, Dane opened up about his early symptoms, noting that he initially experienced weakness in his right hand. “I didn't really think anything of it at the time — I thought maybe I'd been texting too much, or my hand was fatigued,” he said. However, after nine months and multiple visits to hand specialists and neurologists, the actor received the diagnosis. By June 2025, he had lost use of his right side. Symptoms vary from person to person; the disease, which is progressive, targets neurons in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle control issues. Eventually, muscles atrophy, which impacts breathing.
“I'm angry because, you know, my father was taken from me when I was young, and now, you know, there's a very good chance I'm going to be taken from my girls while they're very young,” Dane told Sawyer of his dad. “I mean, really at the end of the day, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can.”
Dane began his acting career in the ‘90s with guest roles on TV shows Saved by the Bell, The Wonder Years and Married…with Children.
In 2006, he joined ABC’s medical drama Grey’s Anatomy as Dr. Mark Sloan, nicknamed “McSteamy.” He joined the main cast in Season 3 and appeared until his character’s death in a plane crash in Season 9. He briefly returned as a guest star in a dream sequence in Season 17.
Dane went on to star in The Last Ship post Grey's Anatomy, which was followed a crew on a Navy ship that must find a cure for the pandemic that wiped out humanity. It aired on TNT from 2014 to 2018.
In 2019, he took on the scene-stealing role of badly behaving suburban father Cal Jacobs in HBO’s Euphoria. He appeared on the show for its first two seasons, which aired in 2019 and 2022. He then returned to set for the show’s long-awaited third season in 2025.
Though best known for his TV work, Dane’s film roles included X-Men: The Last Stand, Marley & Me, Dangerous Waters and Bad Boys: Ride or Die. He reunited with Euphoria co-star Sydney Sweeney for the 2025 release Americana.
Dane was married to actress Rebecca Gayheart, with whom he shared daughters Billie Beatrice, 15, and Georgia Geraldine, 13. The spouses filed for divorce in 2018; however, in March 2025, Gayheart called off the proceedings.
In an essay she wrote for The Cut, Gayheart called their relationship "complicated," explaining that they decided to halt the divorce so that they could manage Dane's disease as a family.
"Our love may not be romantic, but it’s a familial love. Eric knows that I am always going to want the best for him. That I’m going to do my best to do right by him. And I know he would do the same for me," she wrote. "So whatever I can do or however I can show up to make this journey better for him or easier for him, I want to do that.”
Gayheart shared that she knew little about ALS when Dane was diagnosed, except for the fact that there wasn't a cure. Her knowledge expanded as she took on a caregiver role.
“We went to have sushi one night, and it was the first time I had to unload the wheelchair and open it and get Eric into it on my own. And oh my God, I was sweating bullets and there were people watching and taking pictures and I was so upset because I was really struggling,” she said. “I had a flashback from when I was a new mom and I didn’t know how to open the car seat — panicking and the baby’s crying and I’m trying to do this. It was that kind of a feeling, just awful. But I’ve now mastered that thing. And we are really much more careful about where we go out and when we go.”
Dane told Sawyer of their relationship, “We have managed to become better friends and better parents, and she is probably my biggest champion, my most stalwart supporter.”
In December, it was announced that the actor would publish a memoir in 2026 about living with ALS. “I want to capture the moments that shaped me — the beautiful days, the hard ones, the ones I never took for granted — so that if nothing else, people who read it will remember what it means to live with heart," he said in a statement. "If sharing this helps someone find meaning in their own days, then my story is worth telling.”
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Titanic (1997)
Quotes
Rose: Mr. Andrews... I saw the iceberg and I see it in your eyes... please, tell me the truth.
Thomas Andrews: The ship will sink.
Rose: You're certain?
Thomas Andrews: Yes. In an hour or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Cal Hockley: What?
Thomas Andrews: Please, tell only who you must. I don't want to be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly, don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:25 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 02/20/2026
