Because of the various discussions and whatnot about the 50th Anniversary of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, I think I'll start off with what I said about my view of the Beatles in general about eight years earlier:

I suppose I have a rather skewed view of the band compared to most people. You see, I was a baby in their heyday (I ( Read more... )

In 1977, the only night of the week on which NONE of the three major U.S. television networks showed a feature film in Prime-Time was TUESDAY.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of September 4, 2014
In Roald Dahl's kids' story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.'s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 8, 2013You have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It's best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you've certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some ( Read more... )

In the summer of 1979, we moved again from Pittsburgh to the Tampa Bay area. The second TV was placed in a "Florida room" of the house, that was originally designed as a garage but never actually built as such. After some months of sharing a bedroom with my brother I somehow persuaded my parents into replacing the old sofa in the Florida room ( Read more... )

(This is part III, I Started With THIS Entry and then Continued In THIS OneWe moved to Pittsburgh in the Summer of 1976. And that brought changes...I was allowed to watch much more prime-time programming...and we installed a TV in the lower-floor family room next to the bedroom I shared with my brother. A lot of habits changed because of that ( Read more... )

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...So I'll do it (again).

The Bill Clinton Administration is just as far back in history now as the Dwight Eisenhower Administration was when George Lucas made American Grafitti.