Sitting inside the police station, waiting to be fingerprinted, my feet dangling on a chair that was just a bit too high, “wanted” posters and Rules of the Road pamphlets decorating the sitting area, I thought about how much the world has changed. The strains of the long running television series Dragnet, kept running through [...]
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Just the facts, ma’am.
Posted in Adventure, Television, tagged Dragnet, fingerprinting on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | 18 Comments »
You’re “it” (question #4)
Posted in Books, Family and friends, Famous and infamous, Food, Television, tagged Alton Brown, Cookbooks, Dana Carvey, Ina Garten, Lidia, The Church Lady on Saturday, March 24, 2012 | 30 Comments »
DO YOU LIKE TO COOK? DO YOU LIKE TO ENTERTAIN AT HOME? IF THE ANSWER IS YES, WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE ENTERTAINMENT AND COOKBOOK AUTHORS? I love to cook and eating, in my humble opinion, is a form of entertainment. Some of the sweetest of life’s moments are when I’ve set a fine table. Family [...]
Daydream Believer
Posted in music, Television, tagged Davy Jones, Daydream Believer, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Monkees, the sixties on Thursday, March 1, 2012 | 24 Comments »
The 1960′s were confusing, sometimes frightening, and often magical, especially to a teenage girl. The Viet Nam war was escalating, a generation most often referred to as selfish was disillusioned, the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King were assassinated, their fallen images displayed on the television screen. The world seemed to be in an upheaval. [...]
Tiptoeing through the tulips
Posted in music, Nature/animals, Television, tagged Laugh In, Nick Lucas, Tiny Tim, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, tulips on a sunny day on Sunday, February 26, 2012 | 24 Comments »
Tiptoe through the window By the window, that is where I’ll be Come tiptoe through the tulips with me From Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Al Dubin What joy it was to see the sunshine as it danced among the tulips in the vases on an icy cold February morning. Here on the Cutoff. we [...]
A Downton Doll to see you through
Posted in Historical, Just for fun, movies, Television, tagged Downton Abbey, Lady Violet, Lord Grantham on Monday, February 20, 2012 | 18 Comments »
SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE LAST EPISODE OF DOWNTON ABBEY, SEASON 2, BE ADVISED. SPOILERS! Isn’t it amazing what you can find on the internet? Downton Abbey. Google. A few clicks of the mouse here and there. Up pops Lady Violet – as a paper doll! There are Ladies Sybil and Mary. Even [...]
Beat the clock
Posted in Adventure, Family and friends, Just for fun, Television, tagged Beat the Clock, television games of the 1950's on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | 14 Comments »
A team made up of a husband and wife or an engaged couple would perform a stunt to the tick tock tick tock of a big wall clock. If they “beat the clock” – finished before the clock stopped – they would win a prize. The stunts would become increasingly more difficult, or the clock would [...]
Uncle Tonoose
Posted in Television, tagged Danny Thomas Show, Make Room for Daddy, Uncle Tonoose on Saturday, May 7, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Uncle Tonoose. I heard someone being referred to as an “Uncle Tonoose” and my antennae grew from the back of my ears like My Favorite Martian. Uncle Tonoose! Do you remember him? The patriarch and wacky uncle of Danny Williams, played by Danny Thomas, on the 60′s television show, Make Room for Daddy, which was [...]
165 Eaton Place
Posted in Family and friends, Television, tagged Jean Marsch, Masterpiece Theater, Upstairs Downstairs on Sunday, April 17, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Full of myself and, I am ashamed to admit, a tad smug, I looked at my mom in astonishment when she expressed her dismay that Masterpiece Theater’s acclaimed series, “Upstairs Downstairs” would no longer air. I still cringe and redden at my arrogant snobbishness and recall how Ma didn’t miss a beat as she talked [...]
Snips and snails and crocodile tales
Posted in Nature/animals, Television, tagged Cuba, My Magpie Collection, PBS Nature, The Accidental Eden on Thursday, April 14, 2011 | 10 Comments »
One of my very favorite blogs is a most delightful spot “down under” where Marilyn writes so beautifully about her life, her family, her beloved New Zealand. She is also an extraordinary photographer. I was so enthralled with her hot chili pepper blog yesterday, I felt I just had to share it with you. Her [...]
