Today -- to this point, at least -- I've had the first chance to breathe for a few days. Friday was eaten up with work and travel, Saturday and Sunday were watching the race and traveling, and then yesterday was one of those Days From Hell, complete with a meeting afterwards that went on for far too long. (During which I had to take the minutes. And I took them, all 120 minutes of them. Blergh.) Then I had to go by the grocery store, since otherwise I wouldn't have had anything for breakfast or any bread for making my sandwich for lunch. It's days like those yesterday that make you realize just what you have on the "normal" days.
:: Picture Pages! Lest you think my interest in ancient broadcasting means I was born 100 years old and had been watching television forever, let me correct that image with something that really was from my youth: Bill Cosby's PicturePages. Back when I was in elementary school we'd watch Captain Kangaroo in the mornings as we had breakfast, and I distinctly remember the Cos doing PicturePages. I already knew the Cos from the Cosby Kids series, which I loved to watch, and this was another side I got to see (not to mention the cosmic shift that happened a few years later when I began to find out about Cosby's more adult material, introduced by our family watching Bill Cosby, Himself one Saturday evening). I finally begged my parents to send off for a set of PicturePages, but I never got the chance to follow along with them on television due to the programs being out of sequence with the books. But, still, it was neat to have. Unfortunately, I never had Mortimer Marker to help me, but you can't have it all.
Just so you know I'm a child of my times, I'll try to say some things about the stuff I personally remember from time to time. On the other hand, you're going to get a lot of stuff from before I was born. Yeah, it makes me sound like I'm in my 70s or 80s, but so it goes.
:: Synchronicity Sometimes the Interweb does spooky things, as it did this morning. Dave Garroway was on my mind, and I followed a link or two about him. I had some streaming music playing, and what should start playing over the stream but "I Shall Be Released" by The Band. If you know anything about the last two decades of his life, and what a nightmare they played out as, that's a little too eerie.
I remember watching PicturePage on Nick when i was 5-6 years old, but i was always upset that I didn't have the "play along at home" stuff. It was really a low point in my life.
Also eerie:
I just happened to be reading about Dave Garroway myself the other day. (Type in "List of suicides" on Wikipedia, and you will get more than you bargain for.)
Posted by: Justin | January 29, 2008 at 01:32 PM