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The Saturday Comics: Saturday Morning Superheroes (Archive a9)

13 Apr

April 13, 2013

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Remember Saturday morning cartoons? Long before cable, every tv channel had cartoons on Saturday morning and they were a whole lot better than the current crop of wannabe anime-tinged crapola you see today. (I am going to ignore Rubik The Amazing Cube, thank you very much. Nothing to see here, move along…)

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The Herculoids!

Mightor!

Shazzan!

Johnny Quest! (Argueably the best toon in this lineup.)

Moby Dick!

The Superman Aquaman Hour of Adventure! (Yes, Aquaman was once a headliner!)

THAT’S THE GOODS!

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.

Imponderable Chef

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?