reposted from 2010. When we reference holiday specials on TV in the 1970′s, we immediately harken fondly back to Clarice’s giant eyelashes batting at Rudolph, and Linus’ Jesus speech. We throw the entire genre under rose colored spyglasses. Most holiday specials on TV in this era were actually CRAP, traumatizing even. Some weird gravitas must [...]
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The Haunted Attic
This morning, Leslie complained that the dude cast to play Gale in the Hunger Games looks really… “big”. Gale isn’t buff and beefy! In our eyes anyway, he’s lanky and brooding. Then we further complained about how the boy heros in Twilight are either man-like or all hunked-out. Melissa told me once that she was [...]
In November 1982, A 10 year old schoolgirl from Maine named Samantha wrote a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, seeking to understand why the relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were so tense: Dear Mr. Andropov, My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten years old. Congratulations on your new job. [...]