If you remember when the Wonderful World of Disney was on ABC on Sunday nights, then you also remember their wonderful world of “color! color! color!” and this first picture is for you:
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Glimpses of the Magic Kingdom
Posted in TV, art, culture, e-scrapbook, entertainment, photography, television on March 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My Most Hair-Raising Moment
Posted in TV, culture, life, politics, television, thoughts, travel on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so we were at Disney, and Disney isn’t really known for hair-raising rides. So the competition wasn’t too stiff.
Better shared than in private?
Posted in TV, art, music, thoughts on February 1, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Does music seem better on the radio than when played on your own personal sound system?
Comcast, Thanking My “Patience”, & Switching to DirecTV
Posted in TV, culture, entertainment, rants, technology, television on January 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ever since the economy went ka-flooey, I’ve had this suspicion that companies are more interested in customer service. Case in point, our local utility recently bailed on providing cable TV and internet service.
Comics, Superheroes, & Neoteny
Posted in TV, art, books, culture, movies, technology on December 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Superheroes were different when I was a kid. They mostly lived in comic books. Superman later became a TV show, but the special effects were so hokey you could practically see the strings propeling him in flight around the stage. We didn’t mind. We were kids. It was understood that childhood imagination, pretending, was part of the [...]
Hey, the News Is Fun to Watch Again!
Posted in TV, culture, humor, politics, rants, television, thoughts on November 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, maybe fun isn’t the right word — maybe “not too depressing” or “capable of disseminating optimism” or “might increase your faith in our leaders.”
An unplanned sabbatical
Posted in Beatles, TV, animals, dogs, life, politics, television, thoughts, walking, writing on February 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
John Lennon once sang, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” So some of life has happened lately, a mixture of events that has preoccupied me.
A Little Wind in Our Sails
Posted in TV, culture, life, technology, television, thoughts, travel on December 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Every so often when it seems the world has motorized the handbasket in which it’s being carried pell mell to hell, a story comes along that gives you a little bit of hope.
Of Special Relationships, and Cozy Ones, Too
Posted in TV, culture, entertainment, humor, politics, television, thoughts on November 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The BBC coverage of French President Sarkozy’s visit to the US this week was highly entertaining. They even ended one segment with BBC correspondent Kathy Kay visiting Winston Churchill’s statue in a park in DC and asking forlornly “whatever happened to our special relationship?”
All doe-eyed and sweet
Posted in TV, animals, culture, entertainment, humor, life, nature, politics, television on October 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I was channel surfing for playoff baseball last night (which now flips around from network to network like William Shatner seeking cameras and microphones), looking for the Red Sox/Indians game, when I happened on the hunting and fishing channel.
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