Archive | April, 2013

Imponderable #89: New York City (Archive a8)

12 Apr

April 12, 2013

The Imponderable this week is yet another from The Archives.

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Ah, public access TV. Anyone with $20 and some spare time can showcase a half hour of their best MIDI music and pictures of kittens. But I suppose public access television has its place. Spirited local discourse, intriguing intellectual debate, crack cocaine recipes, movie reviews, public access telev-

CRACK COCAINE RECIPES? Yes, that’s what I said. Read on, pals.

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The cable show “Yo Mama” was all set to air an episode where the “Chef de Cocaine” would tell viewers how to make their own crack. And before you ask, no, they do not pre-screen their shows on public access.

How did they expect to get away with that?
The question is Imponderable.

So what do you think about it, Rick James?

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Some Things Never Go Out Of Style (Archives a6 and a7)

11 Apr

April 11, 2013

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Some things never go out of style. for example, Star Trek. This Antiquity from the Archives concerns Star Trek: The Next Generation. And that’s good, since that is a classic program.

However, there are some things that never go away that you just wish would shut up and get out of your face, like the Clintons. Will we never be done with Bill and Hilary Clinton???? Yet that is what this Antiquity  concerns as well.

Bill Clinton and Star Trek. You could put this post in a time warp and even in the 41st century they’d know Bill Clinton and Star Trek.

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This juror on The Little Rock Whitewater trial came from Brooklyn, I am sorry to admit.

She wore a Star Trek uniform, complete with toy phaser and tricorder, to sit on a jury. “I stand for Star Trek’s ideals.”

At least Star Wars fans only call themselves Jedi, they don’t usually dress like one. But as I’ve said before, Trek fans are nuts. They learn to speak Klingon, a fictional tv language. They walk around in Trek costumes in broad daylight. And they claim wearing a Starfleet uniform to formal occasions “is appropriate.”

Note to Barbara Adams: It is not.

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