Howie and I saw Burpee’s new TV commercial today. It’s a terrific ad! I haven’t gotten around to downloading it and embedding it here, and I can’t find it elsewhere, so just check it out at the link I gave. It depicts a woman wearing a flowing blue dress, strolling through her garden. She kneels [...]
I am a big fan of Chuck Jones’ work and How the Grinch Stole Christmas is my favorite TV fare at Christmastime. Here’s a special that aired on TNT in 1994, telling how this classic cartoon came together. Phil Hartman hosted it and various talents and directors are featured in it. I made a playlist [...]
Howie and I recently watched the excellent documentary series WWII in HD on the History Channel. Aside from a few war movies, novels, and what little we covered in high school, I was quite ignorant of many battles and events of the war. The majority of the footage the filmmakers used was original full color [...]
I ran across the bunny picture at a website today and immediately thought of designer Christopher Lowell. What do you think? I submitted this lookalike at Totally Looks like, part of the awesome I Can Has Cheezburger empire.
Growing up in the late 60′s and early 70′s, I never realized how Mr. Rogers kept his show relevant to the times. I was just learning about the world and had no frame of reference. Through the wonders of YouTube, I now can look back on his show through the decades and see how he [...]
Not too long ago, Howie and I were watching an episode of The Waltons on DVD. This one was season 4′s “The Loss”. Family friend Olivia Hill, recently widowed, comes to stay with the Walton family for a while. Olivia was a newlywed, her wedding the subject of season 3′s “The Chivaree”. She is understandably [...]
I thought Emerson’s reaction to Olive being a nun was hysterical…It tickled me how he kept blocking his view of everything except her face, then not, then covering everything… Olive’s way of speaking kills me. As the Depends-like package appears in the jumble of worldly goods falling from the nun’s closet, she says, “Ohhh, top [...]
