Some bad news yesterday, I mean aside from the ongoing “governmental” bullshit. The news broke that Michelle Trachtenberg died yesterday. She’s a talented performer who started acting as a child and was a good actor compared with adults. From what I saw, as a child myself and not in-the-know, she always seemed to hold her own performing with adults on screen as a child actor. If I recall correctly, Harriet the Spy was her first movie or at least her first starring role in a movie. She was in at least one or two Nickelodeon shows before that and then she worked on a number of shows and movies right up until just a couple years ago. In particular she made Buffy the Vampire Slayer interesting to me again. I always had a huge crush on her. She’s another one of those performers that you never hear about being a jackass. It seems to me that everyone enjoyed working with her and just being around her. When someone so genuine and loved dies it’s sad enough and when they’re so young, as I’m told thirty-nine to be, the tragedy compounds. She was always someone I wanted to meet but reading the things that people are writing about their experiences with her, I know I truly missed out. I didn’t think this was going to be any kind of tribute but I don’t really want to write anything else here. I’m thinking I’m just gonna call it and try to figure out how to funny on something else.
