I’ve been wasting time watching audio-related YouTube videos, with turntables being a favorite topic. Back in the 80’s, electronics manufacturers did what they could to modernize turntables, while at the same time promoting their CD players. Along with direct-drive turntables and P-Mount cartridges, there were linear-tracking tonearms.
The music that’s played to demonstrate the turntable is by Jeremy Heiden. Something about the first track reminded me of an early 80’s Steve Miller song, with maybe an added splash of the Police from the same era.
I’m borrowing something from Cartoon Research. It’s a cartoon that really disturbed me as a little kid, so of course I watched every time it was on TV.
Jerry Beck & Co. have launched a streaming Internet cartoon channel. It’s on Twitch.tv, rather than YouTube. I think that’s a good idea, considering my last post. You can watch it for free, but full membership is $5/month. I’m considering joining up.
From a message I, and millions more, received from Alphabet/Google/YouTube.
YouTube’s right to monetize: YouTube has the right to monetize all content on the platform and ads may appear on videos from channels not in the YouTube Partner Program.
I had a sneaking suspicion this was coming. Next up will be the end of embedding.
The Frontline/NPR documentary The Healthcare Divide is of personal interest, because of my 36 years in hospital information systems — including work done at, and for, facilities and organizations featured in this report.
The coverage is focused on Safety Net Hospitals. There is no mention rural Critical Access Hospitals. These also serve as safety nets, and have the same problems, but they are much smaller and, by definition, there is no local competition. After watching the documentary I checked a discussion on C-SPAN.
Betty Page was a one-of-a-kind pinup girl. Appearing mostly in low-brow magazines, Bettie’s appeal was more kitschy than sleazy. Bettie (her preferred spelling) was happy to pose nude, but Irving Klaw never had her do that in his famous fetish photos. Personally, I don’t get the attraction of fetish material, and Bettie thought of it as a funny performance.
Bettie Page Reveals All, an affectionate yet unflinching portrait, is on Amazon Prime. The documentary is a bit amateurish, like the magazines Bettie appeared in, but I recommend it for both the cheesecake photos (there’s an old-fashioned term) and for Bettie’s life story.
For years, Bettie’s fans wondered where she was. The documentary really does reveal everything, including how she went from this…
… to this.
Bettie’s resurrection was thanks to comic book artist Dave Stevens. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Dave saved Bettie’s life, as the documentary explains. Bettie died less than a year after Dave’s untimely passing. Tim Estiloz, a comic book fan and friend, who I met through Joe Sinnott, once interviewed Bettie.
