If my parents had made a go of their florist/greenhouse business in Wisconsin, I might know as much about plants as anything else. As it turned out, I know next to nothing. The two impatiens I had hanging on the front porch all summer did so well I decided to see if they can survive the winter, repotted on the all-season porch.
If the porch works for the impatiens, maybe later I could “pot” some other plants. 😉
Yes, I’m kidding!
One… more… time! It’s worth noting that the Beatles were always interested in new recording techniques. I view that as justification for using AI software to extract John’s vocal from his cassette demo tape.
I’ve been surprised by some of the cartoons that MeTV has shown on Toon In with Me. “Mother Hubba-Hubbard Hubbard” is a recent example. From Columbia, a studio that seemed perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy, this cartoon is a 100% Tex Avery imitation, with voices probably by Stan Freberg. The surprise is an intact sequence that’s been censored for many years.
The guy who posted that video gets MeTV in HD. I’m jealous, because In Boston the station continues to be aired in SD. I watched MeTV in HD on my many visits to Phoenix. This is the censored scene as it appeared here, on WCVB 5-2.
Something else Boston doesn’t have is MeTV+. This Columbia cartoon takes its inspiration from the Fleischer studio.
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did’.” – Kurt Vonnegut, 1997
Here is every instance of Stephen Colbert uttering my family name while talking about Trump revealing state secrets to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. The most Pratt-ish sounding of the bunch is repeated at the end.
Prattle on, Stephen!
Back in June I noted that the Movies! TV Network was no longer available in Boston. I don’t know when it returned, but Movies! is now on over-the-air channel 38-5.
https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/
Right now it’s showing an excellent movie I featured here a year ago, The Narrow Margin.
