Leon Reed is a historian who lives in Gettysburg, and he’s come up with an interesting interpretation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Being the Asimov fan that I am, I’m always at least curious to hear new insights into his work. To review briefly, Asimov’s stories take place roughly 25,000 years in the future when … Continue reading An Analog to Seldon’s Plan
A Picture Is Worth…
My next door neighbor is moving out so she can have an office/studio in her own home, rather than having parts of her studio in her house and having to rent a separate facility as she does now. But she had difficulty finding movers who could move her 900 pound printing press, and when she … Continue reading A Picture Is Worth…
Ellen Weiant
Ellen Weiant in her senior class play. Ellen is on the far right dressed as a maid. Across the street from us when we lived on West Main Street in Richland was JoAnn Weiant (pronounced WEE-ant) and her three children, Julian, Ellen, and Kathleen. JoAnn had been a friend of my mother’s ever since their … Continue reading Ellen Weiant
Summer Break
In the last few days of spring term 1970, three of us (Carl Gruber, Perry Harris, and I) managed to sign the lease for a townhouse at Southgate Apartments for the following school year, but because of the expense we needed to find a fourth roommate. Perry left before Carl and I did, and he … Continue reading Summer Break
Picturing Jesus
Here’s another video from the Western Canadian Reason Conference. This one shows how Jesus has been pictured through the ages. Even though he was a Jewish Middle Eastern man, he’s been most commonly pictured as someone with the same ethnicity as those who were doing the picturing. There is a lot of humor in this … Continue reading Picturing Jesus
Alan, Angie, and Clarke
There are a couple of recent Fresh Air episodes that I want to highlight. First, there’s a retrospective episode of interviews from several years ago with Alan Cumming and Angela Lansbury. Cumming talks about his appearance in Caberet among other things, and the Lansbury interview is from 1980, so she’s talking about her role in Sondheim’s … Continue reading Alan, Angie, and Clarke
The Gass Boys
Our family moved into the house on West Main Street in Richland, PA, in late November 1957, and one of my first memories of that house is being sent to my room to take a nap. This was an all-purpose punishment whenever I did something that didn’t please my mother, or whenever she simply wanted … Continue reading The Gass Boys
Escape from Ben Casey
In the early 60s there were two medical shows on TV, Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey. I watched the first one which was on in the early evening, but I couldn’t watch the latter which was shown at 10 o’clock, as that was past my bedtime for a school night. However, Ben Casey was rather famous for a … Continue reading Escape from Ben Casey
The One with David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley has been responsible for more TV shows than just about other single writer-producer. From LA Law (created by Steven Bochco) to The Practice to Ally McBeal to Boston Legal to Chicago Hope to Harry’s Law to Love and Death to The Lincoln Lawyer to Big Little Lies to— The list goes on. … Continue reading The One with David E. Kelley
A Very Stable Genius Part Two
I like Randy’s parody videos better when he uses a song that I know, like this one.