My wife and I saw Superman in first run; yes, I’m that old. The movie was saved by Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor and Jackie Cooper as Perry White.
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My worst neighbor wasn’t a person but a place. My wife and I bought a house on the eastern outskirts of Annapolis MD in early 1977. It was a nice three bedroom, I built on a big deck for BBQs, we got to know the neighbors. Then I discovered that about 200 yards from our house was a Superfund toxic waste site, one near…
During WWII many kinds of food were severely rationed here on the home front. Recipe books were published with all kinds of egg-less, meat-less and flour-less dishes.
I was a backyard astronomer for 50 years. I had every kind of small telescope there is, and tried stellar, solar, lunar, deep sky... every kind of astronomy you can do from your back yard. After all that time and money, I dumped it because you can’t really see all that much at all. You see pictures like this in the…
My daughter was a classmate of Hilarie Burton in high school. They did drama club and cheerleading together, and Hilarie was in our home many times for cast parties and so forth. Lovely young woman.
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In The Wild One Marlon Brando’s leather jacket had BRMC on the back:
I’m confused. Jesus said:
The producers offered Lazenby a seven-film contract that would have made him Bond for the ‘70s. His agent told him that Bond was obsolete in the hippy-dippy ‘60s and early ‘70s, and that he would look silly, a relic of the cold war. Lazenby turned down the contract and showed up at the premiere in long hair and a…
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And... Bond sings! Skip to 0:50, or don’t; it’s all pretty good.
If we’re doing apocalyptic games just go for the gold. In the Nuclear War series you conduct nuclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies.
I am sad/happy that it’s delayed, as I love/hate TLOU. It’s a great game with engaging characters and a terrific story, but I really hate zombies. So, I played it for the game play and tried to pretend that the fungus monsters were really alien space lizards or something. I’ll get TLOUII when it eventually comes out,…
You young people have no concept of the impact Goldfinger had on pop culture. Released in 1964, not long after the Beatles’ appearance on US television, it marked the beginning of The Sixties™ as a cultural phenomenon, and the start of the British Invasion. Bond was the coolest thing around; every boy wanted to be him,…
Too late by decades. I use a Flowbee, but I’m old, partly bald, and don’t care much how I look.
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Sorry guys, but OK Go kinds of owns this.
Reader’s guide for young people: the lead photo is of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their March 1969 “Bed Peace” demonstration in the Amsterdam Hilton. They had just been married in Gibraltar, and were spending their honeymoon demonstrating for world peace by staying in bed for a week. They received visitors and the…
Fun fact: the tv set in the lead photo is a futuristic number from the ‘50s. However, it is as nothing to this one, the German Kuba Komet which out-Jetsons the Jetsons.
The Beatles were the best there ever was. I was 18 in 1967; I was there. In those days recording acts released long strings of similar/identical hits just to cash in; the Beatles knew this and decided never to do the same thing twice, to always try new things. It was inevitable that some would be more successful than…
Back in the ‘50s men wore hats all the time. Given that everything old is new again these days, I’m waiting for them to come back. There’s nothing jauntier than strolling down the street with your Stetson set at a rakish angle.