Category Archives: TV

Iron Eyes Cody

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Today is the birthday in 1904 of the film and TV actor Iron Eyes Cody. He he has a lengthy list of feature film appearances on the Internet Movie Database , but was famous to most Americans as the “crying … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | 84 Comments

One With The Universe

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

Today’s guest post comes from marketing expert and dealmaker Spin Williams, the man who runs The Meeting That Never Ends. Hello Digital Content Consumers! This is the morning after the greatest communal event of our age – That Big Game … Continue reading →

Posted in Spin Williams, Sports, TV | 104 Comments

Happy Hensonday!

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Today is Jim Henson’s birthday, which should be a national holiday where we get out our heavy old socks, decorate them with fringe, buttons and felt, stick our hands inside and start acting out stories. I love it that he … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | 63 Comments

What’s My Line?

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

Today is Dave Garroway‘s birthday, in the year 1913. He was a TV star back when people dressed up to be on TV. But he was a radio man too, and for a time in the ’50′s he was everywhere. … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews, Nostalgia, TV | 89 Comments

Big Shew

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

Today is the anniversary of the debut of “The Ed Sullivan Show” on CBS TV, June 20, 1948. At the beginning, it was called “Talk of the Town”, though it wasn’t long before people began to refer to it by … Continue reading →

Posted in Nostalgia, TV | 75 Comments

Vast Wasteland

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

Fifty years ago today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow spoke to the National Association of Broadcasters and told them it was time for television to “grow up”. The bigwigs of broadcasting were not delighted by this dressing down from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems, TV, Words | Tagged | 60 Comments

An Historic Announcement

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

Last night, during a time when there happened to be a lot of commotion on TV about some sort of impending major news announcement, I made the shocking discovery that there was a tick attached to my dog’s neck. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Drama, TV | 85 Comments

Time Travelers Beware!

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

The headline that caught my eye was “China Bans Time Travel“. My first thought was that here is another unnecessary restriction against an imagined threat – like Oklahoma banning sharia law. Reading into it a bit, I discovered something with … Continue reading →

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Bear Removed From Tree

Posted on April 9, 2011 by

I received a rambling, late night message from a friend who lives far outside the city. Obviously he has a lot of time on his hands, even though he doesn’t have hands. This has been translated from the original Ursus … Continue reading →

Posted in Bart the Bear, Politics, TV | 44 Comments

Eye in the Sky

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

The Air Force is about to launch a new technology that will bring enhanced aerial surveillance to certain locations in Afghanistan. Where the current airborne robots use one camera to provide live video of a single narrow area, the new … Continue reading →

Posted in TV | 81 Comments