Best rant of the week. Kudos, you won BS. But misplaced, I think, as both the Camp Fire and the Park Fires amply illustrate. I have a soft spot for Smokey as he was a regular at the DC zoo when I was in my pre-pubescent zoo-going youth. I saw him half a dozen times growing up. (Unlike the pandas which I have never seen in maybe a dozen visits to the zoo. Those f*****s are always sleeping/hiding when I am there.)
40 years ago the greatest film in the history of cinema was released. It's all been downhill since then. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
55 years ago, August 15 to 18, 1969, Woodstock, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, NY, was happening.
58 years ago tonight, September 8, 1966, Star Trek premiered on NBC. (Apparently, it premiered in Canada two days earlier.)
Happy b’day, “Miami Vice”, which premiered 40 years ago today on @NBC.Jan Hammer’s theme song eventually hit #1 on the US charts — the last instrumental song to do so.He later said he scored the pilot in four days. “It was very intense.” 🦩 pic.twitter.com/45SIfoc14k— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) September 16, 2024 I must be getting old. I watched the first episode.
PULP FICTION is 30!This movie launched like a rocket out of Cannes and changed my life. It debuted in theaters on this day in 1994 and I’ll always remember the audience reaction. I knew this film was something special after that…AND 30 YEARS LATER, IT STILL IS. pic.twitter.com/Jz144jnmjj— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) October 14, 2024
I heard on the radio this morning that burning debris, like leaves and twigs (which, of course, get out of control), is THE No. 1 cause of forest fires in Wisconsin. I stand corrected and I have been humbled by that bastard fake bear.
We don't have the exact date for it, but 30 years ago (November 1994) GeoCities started - websites went live in 1995.
36 years ago, 11/24/88, Mystery Science Theater 3000 debuted on independent station KTMA 23 in Minneapolis.
71 years ago, 12/17/1953, the FCC approved RCA's color TV specifications. RCA began producing commercials in color and in 1954 sold the first color TV sets. https://www.sri.com/75-years-of-innovation/75-years-of-innovation-color-television/
December 31, 1988 the Fog Bowl was played in Chicago. I still remember watching it on TV and it really was nearly impossible to tell what was happening on the field.
46 years ago today, CBS aired the debut of a mid season replacement. The Dukes of Hazzard ended up running 7 seasons and 147 episodes.
On February 14, 2005 three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim founded a little company called YouTube.