Monthly Archives: November 2009

Throughout the baseball season, I learned from my friend Jim how a true sports fan thinks, not a radical, face-painted, intoxicated nut case, but a rational, intelligent person my own age, similar to me in most ways, except whose ups-and-downs … Continue reading →

Growing up in East Lansdowne, I heard a story that gave me nightmares for years.  If any of you other East Lansdowners also heard it, I would like to know. The story was of a girl that played the part … Continue reading →

China manufactures so much for us these days that the old instructions in fractured English have mostly gone.  But not totally gone, I’ve found. Here are the care instructions that recently came with a camera viewfinder made in Shanghai: (The … Continue reading →

Doing a little computer research, I found “The Continental” (see the previous posting) originally had been a popular late-night mood-music radio program on the West Coast.  Between the Perry Como’s and Mantovoni’s, he would babble sweet nothings to his female … Continue reading →

Does anyone else remember watching the 1950’s TV show "The Continental?"  You could have easily missed it.  It was a short 15-minute show that aired twice a week on Channel 10 at 11:15 PM, the last program before the station … Continue reading →