Tikki’s 7th Birthday
All best wishes welcome! Here are two pics from earlier today… the second one is her having a bit of cream (a fave treat).
(And yes, she’s due for a grooming…)
Chrissie
Fred Six Years On
Yesterday (Feb 28) was the sixth anniversary of Fred Jr’s passing. Six years?! That clock is whizzing round these days. I can’t think of an upside to this, sadly. This year would also be a big birthday for him, and I’ll post about that in a couple of weeks.
The pic is of Fred from September 3, 2006.
Tom Baker at 90
Just as Doctor Who reached its 60th recently, THE DOCTOR himself celebrates his 90th today.
Tom Baker in 2023.
Happy birthday to Tom!
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David Soul
I was very sorry to hear of David Soul’s passing just recently. It reminded me of back in 2020, when, halfway through watching the original (best!) James Bond movies, Sean Connery passed on. This time we were in the middle of watching the complete Starsky & Hutch series.
About that series… of course, it’s a mixed bag. It started out very, very gritty, but it seems they quickly realised with a strong younger audience they should probably dial that aspect back a bit. But never fully, which means by the third season we still get very edgy, adult episodes side-by-side with absurdly camp, jokey nonsense. At its best, Starksy & Hutch is superb—at its worst, the cheesiness is off the scale.
Best Wishes For 2024
Having neglected the blog (as usual) for a while, I do plan to post a few things to kick off ’24… meanwhile, thought I’d drop… Read More »Best Wishes For 2024
Alan Moore Is Effing Insane
Alan Moore’s recent interview with IGN is causing the usual kerfuffle & arguments, about which I frankly do not wish to comment… except… EXCEPT… for this one astonishing remark he made…
“Now they’re called ‘graphic novels’, which sounds sophisticated and you can charge a lot more for them. What appealed to me most about comics is no more, and these innocent and inventive and imaginative superhero characters from the Forties, Fifties, Sixties are being recycled to a modern audience as if they were adult fare.”
This man is an absolute loon.
Where do I start?! Firstly, I agree 100% with this statement…
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2023 Viewing (Q3)
That time again! The previous viewings are here. This is the old TV stuff we watched in the third quarter of 2023…
(NOTE: Yes, I know this is about three weeks early. There was a lot to cover and I just felt like it. OK? Thanks!)
The Fugitive season 4 (DVD)
Kojak season 5 (DVD)
Harry O season 2 (download)
Kojak: The Belarus File TV movie (DVD)
Kojak: The Price of Justice TV Movie (DVD)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series 1 (DVD)
Columbo seasons 1-2 (DVD)
Lonesome Dove TV mini-series (DVD)
Broken Trail TV mini-series (Blu-ray)
Yes, ’twas very sad farewells to both The Fugitive and Kojak. We still have the five “season six” movies from 1989-90 to watch for Baldy, though. As to Doctor Kimble…
Kimble stalks the one-armed man in the finale of THE FUGITIVE (1967).
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Underrated Artists I Love #1: Frank Robbins
The first in a series? Also, coming up: Overrated Artists I Hate! 🙂
Frank Robbins. He’s that Invaders guy. He’s that weird artist who drew rubber-limbed, contorted figures with insanely distorted, grimacing faces. Everything he drew looked bizarre & wrong, didn’t it? He wasn’t very good, was he?
No. He was GREAT! I mean, come on, get a load of this…
Cover of THE SHADOW #7 (DC Comics, 1974).
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