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.
5 comments:
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.
I 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.
Even 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).
Yeah, I saw that logging thing. WTF?
I 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!
The logging thing, I know some of those loggers. Scary. Didn't watch it (yet). It's in the DVR.
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