Behind the scenes on How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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 on [...]

WWII in HD and pictures of the American homefront

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 film. [...]

Christopher Lowell lookalike!

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.

Breakin’ with Mr. Rogers

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 [...]

The lure of The Waltons

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 devastated [...]

Favorite Pushing Daisies quotes this week

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 shelf [...]