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Bleak Forecast or: Rain, Rain Go Away

15 Friday Jul 2016

Posted by TGBII in Life as We Know It, Video

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CBS, Fox, Full Moon Festival, GoPro, NBC, Omega Sports, Rain, RayLen Vineyards, The Man Who Walked the Town, Vagabond Saints Society

Salutations™!!

I’m looking at the weather forecast, or should I say forecasts, and notice that they’re not all on the same page. Because I’m looking forward to what the weather is for tomorrow, I looked to see what the local NBC, CBS and Fox stations said the weather was predicted to be. I’m not liking it. Even if they’re not on the same page, none of it looks good. It looks like there will be scattered thunderstorms all over the place tomorrow from about 9pm tonight on through. In fact, the whole week has some sort of chance of rain. But, why am I annoyed by this?

Well, it’s two things. I’ve gotten used to doing my Saturday walks and I was thinking that I may attempt some filming to get the web series going on The Man Who Walked the Town. We

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haven’t chosen the neighborhood yet, but I’m sure it’s someplace that I’ve already been so we can use it as practice. I hate being wet, so, if it’s raining, I’m probably not going to go out in it, willingly. The GoPro (thank you Omega Sports) is in a waterproof case, so I’m not worried about that, but I don’t like being wet; I worry about that!

The other thing that I hope it doesn’t rain for is the second of the Vagabond Saints Society’s Best of Talking Heads summer tour. It will be at RayLen Vineyards in Mocksville/Advance/Bermuda Run (it sits right on a bit of the Bermuda Run Triangle) and it’s outside. There’s a shed but, really, if it’s raining who’s going to go to that? I don’t know that anyone will. I don’t know that I want to if it’s raining. Especially with thunderstorms. If it were just rain, maybe. I don’t know. So, if it’s not raining, come on out to RayLen, it’s their “Full Moon Festival” that day. You can find directions by visiting their website HERE.

So, again, here’s hoping that the weather goes along with my plans. If not, then we’ll find something else to do, but I hope it doesn’t come to that. I was looking forward to the second accomplishing of my “10k by 10a” and starting the filming process. So, rain, rain go away! Far away!

Until tomorrow (and hoping for a dry-ish one), same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Why don’t we pretend? There you go, Little Man. Cute, cute, why not? Late at night, wake him up?” – “Stay Up Late” (Byrne)

The Paper Chase or: The Less Desirables Movie of the Week

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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Salutations™!!

The Paper Chase (1973) is The Less Desirables Movie of the Week brought to you by a/perture Cinema, the Official Movie Sponsor of The Less Desirables. It stars Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman and Edward Hermann.

Per IMDb: “A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.”

The film tells the story of James Hart (Bottoms), a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, the troubles he has with with Professor Charles Kingsfield (Houseman) a tough-as-nails contract law instructor and the clandestine relationship he has with Kingsfield’s daughter, Susan Fields.

The first day of class, generally a course outline day, Kingsfield asks Hart a question and when he becomes flustered and humiliated, he ends up running tot he bathroom to throw up. He’s invited to join a study group consisting of five others that are in the law program and they split up duties for learning. Some are better than others, some crack under pressure and some are just a-holes.

Hankering for pizza, Hart is picked up by Susan Fields (Wagner). To say their relationship is difficult is an understatement; she doesn’t understand the time he devotes to his studies and he is frustrated that she won’t commit to the 1paperchaserelationship. He finds out why soon. Hart and his classmates are invited to a cocktail party that Kingsfield hosts every year for his students. Susan is there. He is stunned to discover that Susan is Kingsfield’s married daughter. She explains to him that she is, however, separated from her husband. She and Hart break up… several times. She even has him to her father’s house, once, to have a rendezvous and the professor comes home. Then they break up more. To escape the crazy that the relationship brings, he delves deeper into his studies.

At one point Hart becomes frustrated with the professor and gives a facetious and flippant answer and the professor offers him a dime telling him to call his mother and tell her that he’s not going to be a lawyer. Hart calls him a son-of-a-biscuit eater and starts to walk out. The professor agrees with him and tells him to sit down. One of the study group tried to kill themselves and drops from school. Another quits the group and one more is ejected. Studying for the final exam, Hart and one of his group partners that is still left hole-up in a hotel and basically ransack it over the course of three days whilst studying.  As to whether or not Hart passes or whether or not he ends up with Susan, you’ll have to watch to see.

I remember the television show, not from CBS, but from Showtime. We didn’t have Showtime but it was available at my grandmother’s house and I remember ads for it. I’ve always known John Houseman from that more than anything, even though I’ve seen him in other things. It was really cool to see Ed Hermann in a role from when he was that young. Of course I’m most familiar with him from Gilmore Girls and just a few weeks ago, I reviewed him in The Lost Boys. And Lindsay Wagner is quite hot in this film.

The story moves at a moderate pace and would probably fail Eugene‘s E20, but I just don’t see him as a fan of college dramas. I love the thought of university life and this film really appealed to me, especially once it started. I love law school dramas because I’m quite interested in law. The interaction between the students in the study group is at times dynamic, at times hostile and at times the calm before the storm. The tension between teacher and student is a great dramatic journey. You have to admire both Kingsfield’s stern and uncompromising stance and Hart’s rise from timid church mouse to tenacious hunter and that adds to that dynamic. I enjoyed the story, I enjoyed watching where and how Susan’s and Hart’s journey was taking them, I enjoyed the ending.

I recommend this film if you are one for dramas (and usually I am not). I recommend it on the cast and the acting, too.  Rotten Tomatoes has it rated at 85% Fresh with an audience score of 71%. It was directed by James Bridges who also wrote the screenplay. I watched this on Netflix and rate it 4 stars. Have you seen the film? Do you agree with my assessment and review? Hit me up on any of the social media avenues and let me know. What movies would you like me to review? Let me know!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer.” – Professor Charles W. Kingfield, Jr. (John Houseman)

Does He Ever Shut Up or: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Announcer

07 Friday Nov 2014

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Baltimore Ravens, CBS, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Jim Nantz, John Madden, NFL, Phil Simms, Pittsburgh Steelers

Salutations™!!

Ok, I’m a Steelers fan. A life-long Steelers fan, actually.  But, I love football in general.  NFL footall, that is.  I’m just getting into Soccer but I’m not talking about that right now.  This is FOOTBALL!

I’m sitting here watching the Cleveland Browns v. Cincinnati Bengals.  Both teams are rivals of my beloved Steelers.  The point I’m going to make actually has nothing to do with the game itself but my least favorite announcer, Phil Simms (who is calling this game).  I never cared for him as a player. I respected him, but didn’t care for him.  I dislike him greatly as an announcer.  Why?  Well, there’s several reasons. Shall I elaborate? Ok

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Phil Simms? (Photo by therionorteline)

One, he’s just not very good. He and his broadcast partner, Jim Nantz, are the “A Team” for CBS’ roster.  That’s not saying much for CBS’ other announcers, really.  Well, they also have Dan Fouts, who I only liked in Waterboy with Adam Sandler, but I digress.  Neither Nantz nor Simms are top-notch.  It’s like listening to John Madden talk twice as much and non-stop.  John Madden was notorious for being an obvious observer.  He know his stuff, but almost everything was the most mindless drivel.  Simms, the “color” commentator, starts filling every speck of time that Nantz isn’t talking with knowledgeable, but needless info.  He needs to back the hues of “color” back a few shades.  I don’t need that much talk.

Another thing is that he has some vendetta against the Steelers.  I don’t know why he does, but he does.  He finds every opportunity to talk passive-aggressively and with disdain for the old Black and Gold.  It doesn’t matter who they’re playing, the Steelers can do no right.  There’s always a reason or something that they’re doing wrong.  The other team can have 8 turnovers and he’ll praise them. Yet, he goes out of his way to talk trash about Pittsburgh.  There was one game in 2011 that the Steelers were playing their arch rivals, Baltimore Ravens, and a fight broke out.  Fights don’t just happen one-sided; there’s always two involved, at least.  I can’t remember if we started it or they started it, but there was a fight and the Steelers were flagged.  There was no recourse for the Ravens player and Simms actually cheered for that.  Maybe it wasn’t as much the Ravens player, maybe it was.

Anywhat, I think he’s a piece of dung.  Those are strong words, I know and I don’t normally talk like that on here.  I really don’t like him, can you tell?  I wish that CBS would stop putting him with Steelers games.  But, he does a lot of them, so that must mean the Steelers are marquee enough.  That’s cool with me.  Just don’t like him.

Ok, well I’m done with that rant.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster.” – Dennis Miller

After These Messages or: What We Did for a Scooby Snack

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by TGBII in Life as We Know It, Rant

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Salutations™!!

So, CW, the last bastion of Saturday morning cartoons, has ceased its showings of anything that resembles animated entertainment.  It wasn’t even that long ago (ok 30+ years) that almost every American kid, aged 4-13 or even older, was getting up at some ridiculous hour on a Saturday to watch our favorite superheroes, mystery machine, little blue people, animals, underwater world or outer space adventure.  This, after complaining that we had to get up early to go to school 5 days a week; we had no problem getting up for these hand drawn nuggets. I’m sure there will be animated commercials but not actual cartoons.  So sad.

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Super Friends Over the Years

I remember back to when I was only about 4 or 5, my dad would get up to go to work in the coal mines, but before he did, he’d place a blanket over the seat and back of the couch.  He’d then come get me out of bed, even carrying me, usually, lay me across the blanket and then wrap me like a caterpillar in a cocoon.  He’d then turn the TV on to channel 4, WOAY, for those in WV, because that’s where the Super Friends could be seen.  But before that, on the same channel Bugs Bunny and Yogi Bear would come on.  Afterwards, I would work my way out of the very tight wound pocket I was resting in, have some cereal, I was (and if so inclined am still) a Fruity Pebbles kind of guy.  Then maybe I’d work my way to channel 3 (WSAZ) or 6 (WVVA), both were NBC stations to see Sigmund and the Sea Monsters or, my grandfather’s fave, The Pink Panther.  Maybe, I’d switch to Channel 8, WCHS (Now ABC, Channel 13, WOWK, eventually took over) for what CBS had: some Josie and the Pussycats or Speed Buggy or whatever.  It started with ABC.

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Shazam!/Isis Power Hour

As I got older, my watching habits didn’t change, just what I watched, or at what time.  I wasn’t wrapped like a birthday present anymore, but Dad still made sure I was up, or my mom may have been at that time.  Super Friends moved to later time slots, but I still watched Bugs, Buggy, and Hong Kong Phooey.  Even though it wasn’t animated, Land of the Lost was big at the time. Oh! and Shazam! I LOVED Shazam! and when Isis was addded, it was extra cool.  Things like The Ghost Busters (with Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker, not the ’80s movie) and Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle and The New Adventures of Batman really turned my key. The latter was part of either Tarzan… or Batman and the Super 7.  Even Plastic Man was so popular at this time, he had a 90 minute show! Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!? was brought back from the ’60s, as well. I’m longing for all that now, the more I write this.

Space Ghost

Space Ghost

When 1977 came along and Star Wars happened, every other commercial was about the action figures, play sets, breakfast cereals, clothing lines or anything else related to the brand.  And that was OK.  I never minded commercials during Saturday morning cartoons because it was stuff that always interested me.  Speaking of space, NBC brought back the 60s hits Space Ghost and Herculoids to capitalize on the outer space phenomenon that was happening.

There was an educational element while Saturday morning cartoons were happening.  ABC played the now-famous Schoolhouse Rock which I was barely old enough to use them for what they were meant for.  The idea was to help students remember multiplication tables, and moved into American history, science and grammar.  I was just going on 3 when they started and didn’t need all that education, but the other thing SR was supposed to do was entertain because that’s how many of us learned, heck, most of us, even.  But, later, when reruns started back, I got through my 9th grade American Studies project of reciting the Preamble of the Constitution by singing it in my head.  But, that wasn’t all.  CBS had 30 Minutes and The CBS Saturday Film Festival.  And Time for Timer!? Who didn’t love Time for Timer?  And Chopper?  I didn’t even know what Peoria was, but I knew I should do pushups if I did know.  Hmmm… We learned and we didn’t mind it.

Thundarr

Thundarr the Barbarian

Even later in my cartoon watching career there was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Thundarr the Barbarian, The Smurfs, Shirt Tales, Mr. T (he even had a cereal), Pac-Man (also a cereal), Snorks, and Laff-a-Lympics.  I had plenty of Saturdays that my friends had spent the night before and we watched cartoons together, or when we went out to play, we’d talk about how Samurai saved Superman and Apache Chief by shouting the famous “Kaze no Yō ni Hayaku” a time or two and how Darkseid was thwarted because of it.

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Shirt Tales

But, with all this, there was one thing for sure: American Bandstand meant it was time to go outside and play.  We still did that.  We went out and played.  Not that I didn’t like American Bandstand.  The first time I heard “Turn Me Loose” from Loverboy was on American Bandstand.  I always thought it was weird that I had never heard any of the songs that Dick was polling the crowd about.  And Soul Train, I liked watching the dancing.  Still, usually, American Bandstand meant, OK! Saturday morning is over; let’s move on.  And we did.

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

I can remember when things started to fall apart.  It was still mid-’80s.  When He-Man, She-Ra and their respective “universes”, or Dungeons and Dragons, Thundercats and, basically, all those first-run syndication cartoons started playing during weekday afternoons and they brought back the Saturday morning toons for syndication all during the week, many parents stopped letting the kids sit in the house and watch cartoons on Saturdays.  They could watch cartoons all the time at this point.  I loved and hated that.  I loved that I could watch cartoons all the time (and I still watch the old ones when I get the chance) and hated that I could see it was the end of Saturday morning fun.

So back to the original thought here.  Those were the “good ol’ days.”  My son will never know the joys of WANTING to get up on a Saturday to watch cartoons.  He’ll never know the elation of talking about those cartoons with his friends.  Sitting under a blanket, in his Underoos or Superhero pajamas, eating cereal with feelings of suspense to see if Batman is going to escape the Riddler this time… won’t ever happen.  I’m so thankful to my dad, mom, friends, Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, Kenner, Post, Kelloggs, DC, Marvel, ABC, CBS, NBC and many more for making my childhood the fantastic time that it was.  I’m sad that time has passed, but like everything, all good things must come to an end.  There’s still cartoons, yes, and some of them are really good, but NONE can compare with what we had on Saturday mornings.

What are your thoughts/memories of Saturday mornings, dear reader? I’d love to hear your stories.  Comment, if you will.

Until next time, same blog channel at SOME blog time…
Scorp out!!

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