This weekend, the channel formerly known as SciFi is having a Twilight Zone marathon. I am such an addict, I tend to watch for hours and hours. It's funny, having a nostalgic feeling for something that was created almost exclusively before I was born.
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!
Some of the episodes were almost psychedelic, despite being filmed in black & white. For instance, the carnival scenes in Perchance to Dream. Also the living mannequins in The After Hours.
One of my favorite things about watching the old Twilight Zones is recognizing the actors in their younger days. Seeing Jack Klugman, Fritz Weaver, William Shatner, Burgess Meredith (several times), Donna Douglas, Billy Mumy, Elizabeth Montgomery ... and the list goes on. It's a game I play with myself, and with my husband - "do you know who that is?" Funnily enough, I'm pretty good at it, even though I'm terrible in the real life connecting of faces and names.
I'll also confess to loving Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Circle of Fear, Night Gallery, which kindled a heretofore unrecognized fear of earwigs, and more cheesy "horror" series. What's your guilty pleasure?
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From Dragon5616:
4CasandChio takes the long view in BigAlinWashSt's diary OMG! WARNINGS sounded over "Precipitous" Defense Cuts.
In The Troubadour's excellent diary Independence [from oil] Day: Israeli Firm Building World's Largest Solar Plant in California!, Wrench44 offers "conditional" support for nuclear energy in this quip.
It's hard to find a better diary than brooklynbadboy's magnificent Sadie Barker fights back, and shanikka expresses her thoughts most eloquently.
From Ed Tracey:
In today's front-page story about the battles between new South Carolina governor Nikki Haley
and her own GOP legislature - LTeague explains - quite painstakingly - that there are actual GOP legislators who "understand that we must fund public education and other necessary functions at a basic level" - but that, unfortunately for them (and, more importantly, the state's citizens) - that "She is all about Haley, 100% of the time".
From sardonyx:
Although my presidential voting is based on who gets to nominate for the Supreme Court, I read gulfgal98's blockquote from vacantlook's comment, and I agreed absolutely, especially with the bolded phrases. (And I'm not generally fond of bolding.)
In the fascinating and heartbreaking diary A NM Tribe Loses its Forest by TheFatLadySings, badger does some math.
My picks:
Speaking of nostalgia, blue jersey mom tells us how it was for women in the workplace in Julie Gulden's The Shoulders Under Your Feet.
In the same diary, smileycreek starts off on a serious note a thread that soon becomes amusing.
I found this comment by grumpynerd to be quite fascinating. It's in unitary moonbat's History for Kossacks: More Fascist Analogies.
Roddy McCorley says what we're all thinking.
How PBJ Diddy deals with pain.