Flotsam and jetsam today; big work night and even more to come tomorrow. I’d feel guilty about this if I was running a pay site, AND there wasn’t an enormous update over in Black and White World that features some of the wildest, most striking sets in any movie, ever – let alone a small [...]

Interesting evening with our financial advisor. He dropped by for the annual chat. He’s also family, so it’s a social occasion. Somehow he had ginned the books to make it look like we didn’t lose everything in the Crash, which is nice. Had some interesting recommendations for investment strategies, and I was a bit surprised [...]

I’m duplicating this series for the Institute of Official Cheer, and this one came up as a draft, not a published entry. Well, if it’s a duplicate, apologies, If not, enjoy. 
First, we have to pause to note that Bob, while always dapper, was as much of a victim of fashions as the women who appeared [...]

Nine down, several thousand to go.
 
The airdate. Something leaped out at me:
 

 
 
It’s this. The Watchband of 1972. 
 

 
It was cheap thick leather; the watch was held in place by two leather straps that snapped shut. Heavy and hot, and not in the “fashionable” sense, although that much was true in the deluded terms of the age. [...]

Can’t get enough of this, can you? 
 
You can? Well, just as well; too much approval and I’d have to find DVDs of “Joker’s Wild” and other 70s game shows, and it would become a huge site devoted to something for which I have no great love, only mild horror born of queasy nostalgia. But until [...]

 
When they said the “New” Price is Right, they weren’t kidding: they couldn’t even fill the hall, it was so new. 
 

 
 
Bob:
 

 
 
 
Gold and light-blue with lines. For a limited time only, that was acceptable. Expect this to come back around 2011.
There have been complaints there’s insufficient appliance-stroking by Anitra. This should help:

 
 
Judging the item, Ma Kettle [...]