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February 27, 2008 @ 11:34
William F. Buckley Dies
Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. has died at age 82.
His assistant Linda Bridges says Buckley died Wednesday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. She says he had been ill with emphysema and was found dead by his cook.
Buckley became famous for his intellectual political writings in his magazine, the National Review, and his frequent television appearances, including on his own long-running "Firing Line."
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February 27, 2008 @ 03:45
Twenty Six Years Of Change
I've been talking more and more about high school and college lately, and I can't figure out why that is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I just realized that most of the people I chat with online were under the age of 10 when I graduated from high school. Who knows.
When I was in high school I was never into any sports. I tried bowling for a while, but I didn't like some of the people on the team. I spent my extracurricular time helping the band, working in the library, and working lights for the drama department.
I spent many hours in the backroom at the library organizing the schools audio/visual equipment and making sure things were good for the next day. Of course, when I went to school we didn't have DVD players or any of that. In fact, video tapes were just coming out and people were anxious to convert all of their 8mm Film to Video, but we just didn't have the tools we needed at the time.
I can't imagine what it would have been like back then, if we had access to convert Movie Film to DVD. Holy mackerel. The A/V storage room would have been a lot cleaner if I could have sorted DVD's rather than flim containers that's for sure.
Back then we couldn't even convert a film to videotape, let alone imagine the coming invention of the DVD, or the fact that you could convert film to DVD one day.
It's amazing how much things change in 26 years.
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February 26, 2008 @ 01:38
Richard Baer Dies
Emmy-nommed writer Richard Baer, who wrote for TV shows including "Leave It To Beaver," "Bewitched," "The Munsters," "Barney Miller" and "MASH," died Feb. 22 in Santa Monica, Calif. after suffering a heart attack in January. He was 79.
Born in New York, Baer graduated Yale and USC. He began his TV career on "The Life of Riley," starting as an assistant and then writing several episodes. In 1958, he wrote the film "Life Begins at 17" for Columbia Pictures.
In 1960, he started working on the skein "Hennessey" starring Jackie Cooper, winning an Emmy nomination and writing 38 episodes.
Over the next 25 years, he wrote for more than 56 shows, including "F Troop," "Petticoat Junction" and "The Andy Griffith Show." Baer wrote 23 episodes of "Bewitched" and 10 for "That Girl."
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Baer is survived by his wife Diane Asselin Baer, a producer; sons Josh and Matthew, a film producer; daughter Judy and three grandchildren.
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February 25, 2008 @ 23:15
I Remember That Corvette Summer
When I was a younger man, around the age of 17, I used to hang out with a bunch of guys from school, didn't we all? I never had a car when I was a teenager, but I got to spend a lot of time hanging out with my friends who did. They all had older cars, beaters as we called them back then, and we all dreamed of having something cool.
Corvette Summer came out in 1978 and we would talk about how we would own a car just like that some day. Looking back on it, I guess we were a bit "hormonal" or something, cuz I can't really see myself in that car now. I don't think I ever did come to think of it.
Several years later I had a friend whose dad had a newer Corvette. He would spend hours and hours washing, waxing and otherwise babying that car. It drove me crazy. I couldn't understand why someone would act that way with a car. I still don't.
I remember one day when he was working on the car someone pulled up in the driveway behind his car, and they were "too close" and he freaked out and made them move their car. I don't think their car was within 6 feet of his car at the time. Talk about crazy! haha.
I imagine if he still has that Corvette, it's probably sitting in the garage right now, totally polished and ready to roll on some brand new C5 Corvette wheels.
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February 27, 2008 @ 11:34
William F. Buckley Dies
Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. has died at age 82.
His assistant Linda Bridges says Buckley died Wednesday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. She says he had been ill with emphysema and was found dead by his cook.
Buckley became famous for his intellectual political writings in his magazine, the National Review, and his frequent television appearances, including on his own long-running "Firing Line."
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February 27, 2008 @ 03:45
Twenty Six Years Of Change
I've been talking more and more about high school and college lately, and I can't figure out why that is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I just realized that most of the people I chat with online were under the age of 10 when I graduated from high school. Who knows.
When I was in high school I was never into any sports. I tried bowling for a while, but I didn't like some of the people on the team. I spent my extracurricular time helping the band, working in the library, and working lights for the drama department.
I spent many hours in the backroom at the library organizing the schools audio/visual equipment and making sure things were good for the next day. Of course, when I went to school we didn't have DVD players or any of that. In fact, video tapes were just coming out and people were anxious to convert all of their 8mm Film to Video, but we just didn't have the tools we needed at the time.
I can't imagine what it would have been like back then, if we had access to convert Movie Film to DVD. Holy mackerel. The A/V storage room would have been a lot cleaner if I could have sorted DVD's rather than flim containers that's for sure.
Back then we couldn't even convert a film to videotape, let alone imagine the coming invention of the DVD, or the fact that you could convert film to DVD one day.
It's amazing how much things change in 26 years.
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February 26, 2008 @ 01:38
Richard Baer Dies
Emmy-nommed writer Richard Baer, who wrote for TV shows including "Leave It To Beaver," "Bewitched," "The Munsters," "Barney Miller" and "MASH," died Feb. 22 in Santa Monica, Calif. after suffering a heart attack in January. He was 79.
Born in New York, Baer graduated Yale and USC. He began his TV career on "The Life of Riley," starting as an assistant and then writing several episodes. In 1958, he wrote the film "Life Begins at 17" for Columbia Pictures.
In 1960, he started working on the skein "Hennessey" starring Jackie Cooper, winning an Emmy nomination and writing 38 episodes.
Over the next 25 years, he wrote for more than 56 shows, including "F Troop," "Petticoat Junction" and "The Andy Griffith Show." Baer wrote 23 episodes of "Bewitched" and 10 for "That Girl."
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Baer is survived by his wife Diane Asselin Baer, a producer; sons Josh and Matthew, a film producer; daughter Judy and three grandchildren.
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February 25, 2008 @ 23:15
I Remember That Corvette Summer
When I was a younger man, around the age of 17, I used to hang out with a bunch of guys from school, didn't we all? I never had a car when I was a teenager, but I got to spend a lot of time hanging out with my friends who did. They all had older cars, beaters as we called them back then, and we all dreamed of having something cool.
Corvette Summer came out in 1978 and we would talk about how we would own a car just like that some day. Looking back on it, I guess we were a bit "hormonal" or something, cuz I can't really see myself in that car now. I don't think I ever did come to think of it.
Several years later I had a friend whose dad had a newer Corvette. He would spend hours and hours washing, waxing and otherwise babying that car. It drove me crazy. I couldn't understand why someone would act that way with a car. I still don't.
I remember one day when he was working on the car someone pulled up in the driveway behind his car, and they were "too close" and he freaked out and made them move their car. I don't think their car was within 6 feet of his car at the time. Talk about crazy! haha.
I imagine if he still has that Corvette, it's probably sitting in the garage right now, totally polished and ready to roll on some brand new C5 Corvette wheels.
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