Upchuck reminds us that today is the 140th birthday of Reno, Nevada, which is probably where he works today.Today is also Europe Day, for those of you of a European persuasion, and the 115th birthday of William Marston, a psychologist who co-invented Wonder Woman. (This is not the same William Marston as appears in "Forgotten but not Gone.") Interestingly, Marston worked for a time at Tufts University, which is thought to have been the model for Raft University, where Daria Morgendorffer went off to college.
By a curious twist of fate, today is also the day when, in 1961, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Newton Minow, called TV programming a "vast wasteland." My, that was prescient of him, wasn't it? Good thing Daria was there to balance it all out.
More soon.
My room mate has digital cable, with about a hundred channels and the whole OnDemand thing where you can order movies without getting up from the couch.
ReplyDeleteI still can't find anything worth watching except the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.
When MTV was new, I watched that and CNN. Now I just click through everything when I have the chance to use cable. Otherwise I watch little.
ReplyDeleteEven the History Channel has lost its luster, since it appears to have now turned into the WWII/End of the World Channel (oh, and logging).
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw that logging thing. WTF?
ReplyDeleteI always called the History Channel the "Hitler" channel, because everytime I went to it, there was always something on about Hitler, or Kennedy, or both!
ReplyDeleteThe logging thing, I know some of those loggers. Scary. Didn't watch it (yet). It's in the DVR.