A couple of years ago there was this little project on the side door of the garage.
Today, I was hoping to get by with painting the casing on the other side of that door. But in the process of scraping, I saw the wood on the lower half was getting spongy. Having a section of pre-primed casing on hand from the previous job, I decided to replace, rather than paint.
It’s been six years since the last great pre-Covid movie, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. One of my favorite scenes shows Cliff Booth livin’ the trailer life. It reminds me a lot of how my brother lived for years, minus the dog, but with the cigarette and denim jacket.
Two Marvel Comics are shown — Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos and Kid Colt Outlaw. On TV, Cliff is watching Mannix, a show that’s mentioned earlier in the movie by Marvin Shwarz, the agent who meets with Cliff’s pal and ostensible boss, Rick Dalton.
As seen in the opening credits, the first season of the series had a computer gimmick, that was later dropped. On Facebook, actress Leslie Parrish was asked, “Are you the girl in Mannix who’s twirling around in tennis whites?”
Before Leslie appeared in an episode of Mannix, she had been in the Star Trek episode, “Who Mourns for Adonais?”
She even wore the same costume in Mannix.
Leslie’s reply to the question? “No, that isn’t me. That’s Thordis Brandt.” Brandt is also seen kissing Mike Connors in the opening credits.
Leslie is now 90 and Thordis is 85.
Second post-afib week* wearing a heart monitor. First week was in July, third and final will be in April. That will leave enough time for my chest hair to regrow. 😉
* I have been informed they would like me to wear it for two weeks, this time around. Fine, whatever.
Without getting into the history and controversy associated with Brave, it’s the Web browser I use for YouTube.
uBlock Origin was my ad blocker for a long time, until I was forced to disable it on YouTube. I looked for something else that would make it possible to be logged into YouTube without paying to be ad-free. For now, that something is Brave.
The Baby Boom generation created a huge market for kid related material in the late 50s and early 60s. There were plenty of cartoons, both old and new, on TV. Most of the Saturday morning cartoons shown on network TV came from California.
Greater New York was home not only to newspaper cartoonists and comic book artists, but animators. Quite a few of the syndicated cartoons that kids watched after school were produced in New York.
Joe Oriolo, a former Fleischer/Famous Studios animator, was behind several popular syndicated TV cartoon series. Looking at these examples now, I admire the industry veterans of theatrical cartoons who succeeded within the limitations of TV animation.
Felix the Cat
The Mighty Hercules
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Comic book artist Joe Staton gets recognition, and presumably financial compensation, for co-creating Guy Gardner, the latest incarnation of Green Lantern. In the Superman movie he’s played by Nathan Fillion.
