I watched this Dragnet episode when it first aired in 1969. Being an overweight comic book fan and collector, it made me squirm.
The pitiful fan taking his cosplay too far was Tim Donnelly, who has passed away. He is best known as a regular on another Jack Webb production, Emergency!.
A friend who plays the upright bass was curious about a particular cartoon that features virtuoso bass playing. Cartoon Research has some background information.
The copy of the “Solid Serenade” on that page includes something of particular interest to myself. The names of the animators who worked on each part of the cartoon.
Today is Batman Day. How or when or by whom that was declared, I don’t know, but HBO Max has something nifty to celebrate the occasion. I’m listening to it now.
Wall Street has become an economy unto itself. The Fed has helped to inflate the stock market, by holding interest rates so low for so long.
The only thing learned from the 2008 financial crisis is that the Federal Reserve and Treasury will always do everything possible to help Wall Street. For some at the Fed, their actions have apparently been helping themselves.
(Editor’s note [from CNBC]: This story has been updated to reflect new information. Fed Chair Powell owned the municipal bonds in question in a joint account over which he had control. Due to incorrect information provided by the Federal Reserve, CNBC reported initially that Powell owned the munis in a family trust over which he had no control.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/fed-officials-owned-securities-it-was-buying-during-pandemic-raising-more-questions-about-conflicts.html
$36,000 for a 1966 Peanuts Sunday original? How about $360,000? The Daily Cartoonist reports it’s the highest price paid yet.
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/09/14/signed-schulz-sunday-peanuts-sets-auction-record/
The shocking, yet not surprising, stories from the final months of Trump’s term in office continue to surface.
Being able to paste in a YouTube URL and have a Colbert video appear is quite a change from 15 years ago. Back then I had analog cable TV being captured by an ATI TV Wonder card.
I edited using a very old version of Pinnacle, then had to convert to FLV, because Flash was the only available streaming video format. The process was labor intensive and extremely time consuming, and it ended in a 320×240 video that was uploaded to the site via FTP. Painful!
What hasn’t improved since then? Dealing with WordPress problems.
