Wow! If only the day was 48 hours long I would be happy.
As I search for things on the Internet I sometimes think I need GPS. I mean I sit down and know exactly what I'm going to look for and what I'm going to do; and I start. It always seems to go downhill from there. Take for instance last night; I planned on researching classic or old time TV shows. (Really, I just wanted to try to find some episodes to watch. I mean gee, sometimes TV with 100+ channels gets a little boring.) Anyway, I start out on YouTube and find the pilot episode for Fibber McGee and Molly on NBC in the 50's. So I watch.
Then I do a search for classic TV. This, of course, yields a gold mine. So I proceed to visit a few. The first is Like Television. There you can download many classic series and watch to your hearts content and it's easy too. The shows are divided into various categories which makes it relatively easy to find what you want. They also have films, commercials, and cartoons. Then I headed to TV Land. They have a few episodes to watch but I didn't stay long. After that I mostly find links to web-sites that are databases and the like; good to read but not much if anything to watch.
I head back to YouTube.
BONANZA!! And I don't mean the show, although it can be found there.
See, I told you it could be found there. Anyway, I look for Fibber McGee again and watch a few of the videos and then somehow jumped to Jack Benny. One of the Jack Benny videos had Mel Blanc on it. So then I started watching videos with Mel Blanc. You know Jack Benny once said, "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc." After Mel Blanc for some reason I started watching Spike Jones; John Denver; Peter, Paul, and Mary; and Patty Duke. That's quite a variety of music videos, and in the middle of all of those I watched some episodes of The Life of Riley and The Patty Duke Show. And all the while I open more screens and look up information about the shows and read about them. Of course when I do that I can't watch the shows, I can only listen. Then I try to write my blog while I am reading and watching and listening and talking to Chris and Julie and tending to the cats and walking the dog and taking out the trash and, and, and.....No wonder I'm tired!
Good night or good morning or good day or good grief!
© 2008 Barry T Horst
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