It was a Charlie Brown Christmas with a sci-fi twist last month. Vincent’s guest on the “Creature Features” YouTube channel was Benjamin Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Category: Sci-Fi
Beyond the Worldwide Webb
Happy New Year, and wowee! Looking good, so far, getting the JWST deployed.
Shine bright like a diamond ?
With the successful deployment of our right sunshield mid-boom, or “arm,” Webb’s sunshield has now taken on its diamond shape in space. Next up: tensioning the 5 sunshield layers! https://t.co/6G2caS1djY #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/q0iuHdnKlN
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) January 1, 2022
“Repent, Google!” Said the TikTok Man
Oh, the effort and difficulty it took getting Google to even list this site again, let alone accept a sitemap to index its contents:
Once again I lay blame on Bluehost for changes it made, causing all of the problems I have struggled to resolve. There are numerous quirks — especially with pre-fix posts — but most of the serious issues seem to have been cracked, and only because I switched from feeling annoyed to remembering why I started Prattling Before the Pratfall. It was originally intended purely as a learning curve challenge, with no expectation of continuing for more than 15 years. But now that I’m retired from a high tech career, a technical challenge is perhaps a good thing.
I’d better acknowledge the late Harlan Ellison for this post’s title, with the names of the world’s two busiest web sites. Harlan always — and I mean always — wanted to receive his due credit:
It Came From Outer Farce
I have a simpler review of Don’t Look Up. If you have Netflix, watch it.
Whistling in the Dark
My favorite Old Time Radio shows are in the mystery/horror genre. Of those, The Whistler is my top pick. This YouTube playlist has almost 80 hours of whistling mysteries.
The TV Tripler
My three favorite classic TV series, dating me very clearly as a prime Baby Boomer, are The Adventures of Superman, Leave it to Beaver, and Star Trek (TOS). Only Beverly Washburn appeared in all three of those shows, as I told her a few years ago at Trekconderoga. (This year’s event is in progress right now, with special guest George Takei.)
Those three shows were on TV before streaming, before the DVR, before DVD, before VHS and LD, and before cable. A couple of weeks ago, Beverly was on the Creature Features channel on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/n_OSHWkoGb4
Svengoolie will be showing Blood of Dracula on MeTV tonight, on standard definition station 5.2 here in Boston. As I await the arrival of ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV, YouTube channels like Creature Features have me wondering if broadcast television has much of a future.