Robert Frost said it best

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.

–Robert Frost

The news that Estelle Getty passed away after years with Alzheimers dementia made me want to shell out the cash for every Golden Girls DVD ever made. My friends & I LOVE that show, and yesterday I realized how much it still comes up in conversation. Like, in THIS POST I wrote about my last trip to Las Vegas.

I talked to 4 of my friends last night about how bummed out we were to know she's gone, but all the more reason to plan a Golden Girls-themed party. It's still in the discussion stages, but I'll keep you posted on the details. In the meantime, here are a few of my favorite Sophia-centric things:

The best Estelle Getty clip of all time (besides the myriad of scenes from GG) is from one of the reincarnations of Password, a game show that Betty White's real-life husband Allen Ludden originally hosted. I love how offended Betty looks when Estelle takes a stab at the answer:


Host: "We have loose, would you like to take a guess?" Estelle Getty: "Is it Betty White?"


I love Valentines Day and I love The Golden Girls, and I plan to e-mail this to all of my friends come February:


The small print underneath Sophia's valentine says, "(Seriously, though; maybe tonight?) (At least consider it.)"


Someone else in my circle won a Halloween costume contest in October (I'm not actually in this photo). His biting wit in the e-mail that came with the photo still cracks me up:

This is the Golden Girls costume that won us 1st place at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. It is also most likely the reason I am still single.

West Hollywood-style Golden Girls. I'm not any of these people.


R.I.P., Estelle!