The TV habit was hard to maintain on the road before cell phones, tablets, and laptops. The final episode of Lost In Outer Space was watched in front of an old tube TV in Baltimore. I was babysitting for my friends while they were out. The Robinsons were still stuck in outer space, and even …
The Vast Wasteland, Again
If you grew up in the States in the 1960s, you watched television. You might remember hearing of Newton Minow's speech declaring television a "vast wasteland."Â I doubt most Americans remember anything else from the speech other than that famous tagline. Well, here is a snippet: "You will see a procession of game shows, formula …
Virtue
The extra evening light of spring means more time outside, either in the garden or the shop. This is great because I am not a TV person, and an early evening inside means contending with the TV. I don't hate TV; it's just that I left my TV habit behind many years ago. Being on …
TV
My company supported a television production and media literacy program for about fourteen years at our local middle school. I'd trot across the quadrangle of town buildings twice a week to the school. We had a "hot set" studio ( a backdrop, temporary lights, and movable equipment to make it look like we shot in …
Cartoons
When the kids were little, the Simpsons were big in our house. The occasional use of the term embiggen was tolerated with a bit of judicious commonsense, " Well, dear, there are worse things they could pick up from the TV."

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