The TV show was “Silk Stalkings.” It was a play on words, meant to be a homophone of “Silk Stockings” (MGM’s musical remake of “Ninotchka”).

As soon as I saw the original story, I thought of this from several years ago:

Andy Griffith went method for “A Face In The Crowd,” and hated the experience so much that he swore off playing that kind of character for years, which is, I guess, why he was so happy playing things like Sheriff Andy Taylor and Ben Matlock.

If you have not already, read the Rolling Stone piece from a year or two ago about Tom Petty and coffee. Petty took his coffee *very* seriously, but his home brand was ... Maxwell House, because he’d enjoyed it at a diner once. However, he had *two* commercial-grade coffeemakers installed in his kitchen and learned…

If you are at all a fan of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” it’s worth purchasing and downloading the Rifftrax short “This Is Hormel”: https://www.rifftrax.com/this-is-hormel

The recipe was altered in 2009 with the addition of potato starch to reduce the gelatinous goo that used to surround the product and which probably took away from its appeal. 

Well, nobody’s perfect.

The spoiler warning was not just in the trailer — there’s actually a spoken warning in the end credits asking you not to reveal the ending to your friends. Not only #thanosdemandsyoursilence, but #laughtondoestoo.

If you don’t feel like you have enough whey, you can take plain yogurt and drain it through some cheesecloth or butter muslin. That, by the way, is the only difference between “Greek” yogurt and non-Greek yogurt; the Greek yogurt has been strained to remove some of the whey and give it a thicker texture. If you drain…

Right. Basically, Ted Turner bought all of MGM, and then sold off the production and distribution side of things a short time later, while holding on to the rights to all of the previous movies, so that he could use them as programming for his cable channels. So then, when Turner was bought out by (Time)Warner, those…

I had been making my own yogurt, and on a whim I bought a buttermilk culture from one of my online yogurt culture sources. Wow, it’s great -- and much easier to make than yogurt, because it does not need to be scalded and because it incubates at, basically, room temperature. (The directions for the culture call for…

John Bloom, as in Joe Bob Briggs?

I’m part of a Fermented Hot Sauce group on Facebook, and about once a week someone posts with a question about blue garlic, to the point where it’s become a running joke. Most people just answer the question, but then there are always the why-didn’t-you-read-last-week’s-posts goons.

And Fallon was a guest on it.

I would have loved to have seen “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” on Broadway with Radcliffe and John Larroquette. All the clips I saw looked fantastic.

Just now seeing this slideshow, so I doubt anyone will see my comment, but how could they omit John Fogerty’s “Zanz Kant Danz” (which had to be renamed “Vanz Kant Danz” after Fogerty’s former record executive Saul Zaentz filed suit)?

IIRC, when Microsoft wanted to license the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” to promote the release of Windows 95, the Stones did not really want to sell it — but they quoted some ridiculously-high, multi-million-dollar price as a way of dissuading Microsoft. Instead, Microsoft agreed to the price immediately.

Well, in practical terms he’s probably out because he just signed a huge (eight-figure) deal with Food Network: https://tvweb.com/guy-fieri-3-food-network-3-year-deal/

The check’s in the mail, but we have a Postmaster General who’s intent on sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service out of existence, so who knows if it will ever get there.

Here’s a photo I took two years ago at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, of a fragment of Skylab that landed in Australia, as a reminder that we’ve done the same thing in the past: