Figure 8/8/8
Today is 08/08/2008... a date that will live in infinity. Ain't it great? 
I wanted to post a long, cool blog to celebtrate, but I'm feeling a bit quiet and nostalgic.
I remember as a kid (in the early 1970s) being infatuated with the short little SchoolHouse Rock videos that got played during the commercial breaks between the longer Saturday morning cartoons. I'd sit and endure shite like Aquaman, just so I wouldn't miss a SchoolHouse Rock clip.
Here's one appropriate for today and my accompanying mood.
I wanted to post a long, cool blog to celebtrate, but I'm feeling a bit quiet and nostalgic.
I remember as a kid (in the early 1970s) being infatuated with the short little SchoolHouse Rock videos that got played during the commercial breaks between the longer Saturday morning cartoons. I'd sit and endure shite like Aquaman, just so I wouldn't miss a SchoolHouse Rock clip.
Here's one appropriate for today and my accompanying mood.
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You are nuts but I like it...
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Amazing what stands out in your memory from your childhood. Sometimes I want to be back in that place where it seemed so safe. One of my memories is watching The Monkees on Saturday morning. I never really liked traditional cartoons, but I loved anything with music. I also watched The Beatles cartoons. I remember my little brothers watching HR Puffin stuff and Banana Splits. I think the creators were on some sort of hallucinogenics. LOL. Thanks for the nostalgia!
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Lolly Lolly Lolly, get your adverbs here,
Father Son and Lolly, get your adverbs here.
I only remember the grammar ones... probably because I couldn't read at the time. And now I'm a writer and poet and editor, who would have ever guessed that would happen?
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Conjunction, junction, what's your function?
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Like the nice little infinity symbol that makes at the end...
I'm curious what in your consciousness tweeked that particular nostalgia button... but it happens to us all at times. Desire to re-live a time with fewer complications I think... *sigh* When life seemes simpler perhaps.
I myself at that age was a Batman and Robin fan and addicted to Dark Shadows... those would be my nostalgia fixes for the day. Shades and memories of running free till dark playing robbers and vampires...... no bills to pay... no grown up type stuff to deal with...
Ok....... that was a nice nostalgia fix.. now I have to go back to work... cheers..
LOL..
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LOL.. Forgot that they had that fricking Bat Phone under that cake dish... LMAO...
Thanks for posting that.....
I love men in tights by the way...
Would that be considered a fetish of sorts? I wonder??.. LOL... anyway.. back to workfor me... enough diversions..
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there was only one thing that kept flashing through my mind. well actually too. conjunction junction, what's your function??? that, and that bill sitting on the steps of congress. i used to love those too
happy 8/8/08
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Schoolhouse Rock rocked. I was thrilled when I got assigned bin number "9" in my third grade classroom; it was "naughty number nine" in the series.
These are the years we'll validate the new nostalgia - time keeps on slippin slippin slippin... into the future.
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What a hoot!! Conjunction junction and I'm just a bill were the other two I thought of too!
Speaking of Dark Shadows... we were never allowed to watch that or even things like Star Trek or Night Gallery... probably the last two more so because of the time of night than subject matter.
But one night I somehow got to stay up late and saw what I thought was the scariest original Star Trek (the a 8 year old!) ever. It was about children that got a disease that turned them into monsters at puberty. No there's a scary thought!!
And a Night Gallery episode that had a segment about a young boy who had to take over his father's job as a sin eater during the plague. Just the way it was filmed scared the bejesus out of me. I don't think I slept all night... funny what sticks in our heads when were children.
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August 8, 2006. 8/8/8 The beginning of the Olympics and just a comment...this is not a time for politics. It is not a time for personal hatreds. It is a time to watch the most incredible global lineup of almost every county in the world with every kind of human being, dress, customs, etc. I am impressed so I don't even consider anything but the view, and for god's sake if this is in China, so what? Open your hearts to the whole world and see it in one short evening.
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I wrote the above last night after staying up to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics. I recall previous blogs threatening to boycott for Tibet. This would accomplish nothing I believe. The ceremony last night was totally magnificent with every country in the world sending their representatives. If we support this kind of activity there will be a much better chance for world peace. This was perhaps the most impressive televised Olympic opening ceremony ever. It was awesome.
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With all due respect....
I'm sure it was an awesome sight. The best scripted movies can be awe-inspiring - like the Hummer and Cadillac Escalade can seem like awesome vehicles, especially if you let the advertising be your guide and ignore their contributions to unnecessarily polluting, helping destroy our world, and keeping us in dependence (slavery) to fossil fuels.
I can't help but feel that AT&T, Coca-Cola, NBC and the other corporations who are sponsor these Olympics are contributing to (and profiting from) a parallel form of false-advertising and destructiveness - making multimillion-dollar profits in collaboration with a murderous, civil-rights-repressing Chinese government - and making that profit-machine awe-inspiring and beautiful so we'll swallow it like a cold can of Sprite on a hot summer night.
Forget the imprisoned and tortured Buddhist monks. Forget the decimation of Tibetan culture. Forget the kidnapping of the Panchen Lama . Forget the persecution of Falun Gong practioners and other spiritual seekers. Forget the tanks aiming to mow down peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators during the massacre at Tiananmen Square . Forget it all, because Coke adds life, sports should be supported at all costs, and lest we forget, we Americans need some entertainment to go with our potato chips and Budweiser. Maybe we'll win some gold medals, too, so we can flaunt our alleged superiority. Does competition trump common sense in the land of the penny pinch and the U.S. Mince?
Protesting showings of Leni Riefenstal's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will in Holocaust-era Germany might have accomplished nothing, like protesting the Beijing Olympics might accomplish nothing. But does that mean folks like us should just say "fuck it," sit back and enjoy the show - support the filmmakers, the movie houses that show it, and by proxy the spectacle's Nazi producers - all the while allowing our heads to be filled with propaganda over and over again?
All this reminds me of the title of a Dead Kennedys song from the 1980's: Triumph of the Swill .
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we didn't have regular tv for kids back in the early 1950 - no sesame street or whatnot. we did have howdy doody and the micky mouse club, but that's about it.
i think we were lucky.
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Yeah, and there was Captain Kangaroo and Alvin and the Chipmunks, etc.
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funny, my captcha ends in 8...
Minn. baby born 8/8/08 at 8:08; 8 pounds, 8 ounces
From Associated Press
August 08, 2008 7:02 PM EDT
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - Hailey Jo Hauer was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in 2008 at 8:08 a.m. So it wouldn't make sense for her to weigh anything other than 8 pounds, 8 ounces.
Lindsey Hauer thought staff at Lake Region Hospital in Minnesota were joking when they told her the time of her daughter's birth. Then she got a call from the birthing suite noting Hailey's weight.
Nurse Jenny Harstad joked that she tried to shrink the baby to 18 inches from her actual 19.5 inches.
Several hospital staff members pledged to buy lottery tickets.
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Information from: The Daily Journal, http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/
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Thanks for sharing this. So appropriate for the date. I grew up in the seventies too and my favorite one was "I'm just a bill." I used to crack up when he got locked up in committes. My husband shows these videos to his high school students and they take a little knowledge away whenever they see these. It's an easy and fun way to teach some otherwise dry and boring concepts.
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