Browsing archives for 'TV'
90s,TV
31 August 2010 | Comments Off
After Adam West’s extreme slam-dancing yesterday, I think we should dial it back a little. Today we find ourselves in the quaint little logging town of Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks was my first exposure to David Lynch, and I was quickly hooked on its sublime weirdness. Watching the first season again a couple of years [...]
Tagged in audrey horne, dance week, killer bob, sherilyn fenn, twin peaks
60s,Batman,TV
30 August 2010 | Comments Off
I thought we might do something a little different and go with a theme this week. I was looking at my YouTube favorites list earlier today, and noticed I had flagged a lot of dance-related clips. So put on your red shoes bitches, it’s Dance Week 2010! Getting ready to school some fools on the [...]
Tagged in 60s, adam west, Batman, batusi, dance week, king tut
90s,TV
23 August 2010 | Comments Off
While looking for photos of the cast of Wings, I ran across the photo above and this: Christmas 1992: Steven Weber, star of the TV show “Wings”, was flying with some friends to Charleston, SC for a wedding. We brought him from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. He was very gracious. He came to the [...]
Tagged in 1992, kindness, steven weber, wings, xmas
80s,TV
11 August 2010 | Comments Off
Tagged in 10 seconds macgruber, macgyver, paper clip
70s,TV
6 August 2010 | Comments Off
When I was an impressionable young lad in the late 70s, there were certain popular TV shows that my parents considered too hot for me to handle. So I didn’t get to see any of the shows listed below until the early 80s, when they went into rerun syndication. Instead of just listing them, I [...]
Tagged in benson, charlie's angels, delayed gratification, farrah fawcett, jaclyn smith, mork & mindy, parental censorship, robin williams, soap, three's company
80s,TV
21 July 2010 | Comments Off
Ms. Retronaut’s recent comment about the ’90s MTV show Lip Service got me thinking about the original lip-synch show, Puttin’ On the Hits. I remember we were all pretty psyched when this show debuted, which seems weird in retrospect given that it’s just average Janes and Joes lip-synching to their favorite songs. But this was [...]
Tagged in cocaine is a hell of a drug, game shows, kato kaelin, lip-synching, puttin on the hits, sheila e
70s,TV
20 July 2010 | Comments Off
When discussing scary movies, I think we can all agree that a) kids are creepy; and b) mysterious phone calls in the middle of the night are extra-creepy. Combine the two and you have some real nightmare fuel. When Michael Calls is an above-average mystery-thriller that originally aired on ABC in 1972. It’s worth watching [...]
Tagged in Ben Gazzara, creepy kids, creepy phone call movies, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, why we were scared of the 70s
70s,TV
19 July 2010 | Comments Off
Cannibalism is one of those subjects that makes people uncomfortable.¹ As a general rule, humans don’t like to think about consuming the raw flesh of other humans. It’s considered poor form to raise the topic at a dinner party or job interview. Plot device for a horror movie? Sure. Sci-fi novel? No problem. Bubblegum pop [...]
Tagged in cannibalism, Rupert Holmes, the Buoys, Timothy, why we were scared of the 70s
90s,TV
16 July 2010 | Comments Off
I love this picture – click here to visit the artist’s website and get the key! (via You Fail)
Tagged in pop art, seinfeld