Katie Joplin is an American sitcom created by Tom Seeley and Norm
Gunzenhauser that aired for one season on The WB Television Network from
August to September 1999. Park Overall plays the title character, a
single mother who tries to balance her job as a radio program host with
parenting her teenage son Greg (Jesse Head). Supporting characters
include her boss, played by Jay Thomas (pictured), her niece (Ana
Reeder), and her co-workers (Jim Rash and Simon Rex). The series was
optioned as a mid-season replacement for the 1998–1999 television
season, but was delayed for a year after production issues. Katie Joplin
received the lowest ratings for any original program The WB aired in its
time slot. Of the seven episodes filmed, only five were aired. Critics
recommended Katie Joplin prior to its premiere and discussed the delay
in its airing. Retrospective reviews of the series were negative.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Joplin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Louisa Swain became the first woman in the United States to
vote in a general election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Swain>
1963:
The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph
Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krulak%E2%80%93Mendenhall_mission>
1976:
Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate,
Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko>
2018:
The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of
the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_India>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bray:
1. (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the
ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a
donkey's bray.
3. (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly,
loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. [...]
4. (transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle
and mortar.
5. (transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit
(someone or something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bray>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought
have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new
ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the
situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be
obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose,
flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to
no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own
internal momentum. Some channel deepening seems called for.
--Robert M. Pirsig
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig>