Hee I loved him too! In my defense his Incarnations of Immortality was my first step into the world of sci-fi fantasy. They still hold a special place on my bookshelf and when my daughter was a teen she enjoyed them too.
But you really can’t go back. I’ve tried re-reading and it’s just awful now.
Mateus Rosé - indeed rosé of any origin
Libertainianism
Billy Joel
Slade
Ted Nugent (thanks for the reminder, Shoeless!)
What?! The complete Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is on Netflix Instant Watch?! I used to love that show!!
Watches pilot part 1
Damn the special effects, storyline and acting suck but other than that it’s just how I remembered.
A paradox–
The Munsters? Unwatchable
The Addams Family? I still love it.
Go figure.
Do NOT do this at work. Your coworkers will hate you and bitch about you in Pit threads. And laugh very very long and hard and gloat for days when you have to get two broken teeth pulled next week.:D:p:D
I know the character Jo was a tough tomboy, and could have been viewed as a lesbian on the show, but do you know if the actress Nancy McKeon is actually gay in her personal life?
I don’t remember ever seeing her act in anything since Facts Of Life went off the air…
Her Wikipedia article says she’s married (to a man) and has two kids, so apparently not.
I remember seeing her in a short-lived mid-90s sitcom, which going from the Wikipedia article must have been Can’t Hurry Love. She looks to have been working fairly steadily since the Facts of Life days, but not in much that I’ve seen or even heard of. Looks like her biggest recent role was in the Lifetime series The Division.
Thanks—She still looks great (at least going by the two small pictures on your link) and it’s nice that she is still a working actress…
She was always the best looking one on The Facts Of Life to me.
I’ll respectfully disagree on this one. A lot of his stuff is still worth listening to today. Not Uptown Girl, maybe. But I’ve always thought his best songs were the ones that were not radio releases.
I agree… I must be about your age(38?) because I had the same thoughts about Lisa Whelchel & Nancy McKeon when that show was on.
I remember watching Silver Spoons and thinking it was entertaining. Wow, I was wrong.
I used to be really excited about each week’s Star Trek- The Next Generation. Now it’s sometimes hard to watch, although a big part of that is the Star Trek-ishness of the show- what seems to be soft focus, the relentless do-gooding, the lack of anything resembling a story arc except for a very few episodes, and the general lack of subtlety by the writers. The acting wasn’t exactly awful, and the visuals were decent for the time though.
I just turned 40…
Speaking of Silver Spoons, do you remember hot crazy-hott Erin Gray was?
Absolutely Stunning!!!
I was thinking of putting Ace of Base on my list, but they aren’t nearly as bad as some of the other stuff I used to listen to.
You don’t remember her dating Michael J. Fox? And Lisa Whelchel became a heavy-duty Christian.
There are a lot of foods that I used to love or hate when I was a kid and have completely changed my mind about, although that might not be what the OP is talking about. I used to love Philadelphia Cream Cheese; now I can’t stand cream cheese. I could have eaten an Oscar Mayer bologna sammich (white bread, mayonnaise) every day if you’d let me. Now? Eurgh!
I’ve been thinking of renting Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman, but I’m afraid they’d turn out to be REALLY dated and embarrassing, and I’d rather hang on to the good feelings I have of that show.
Anyone else here ever laugh at Dave Coulier when you were a kid?
I wonder how his show Out of Control would look now.
Yeah, she really is. She even came to my church to speak to the women about 7-8 years ago. Had no idea she approved of “hotsaucing” at the time, either. What a weird idea, at least to me.
It’s where they put a bit of hot sauce on a kids tongue for punishment. Never heard of it, myself.
But the blues club scene remains an absolute classic.
Albert Collins: Nobody gets out of this place without singing the blues.
Elisabeth Shue: What?
Albert Collins: Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues!
Elisabeth Shue: You want me to sing?
I still own his “screw you label” album Wasp.
I was selling t-shirts at concerts back then, and the noise in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium, packed full of pre-teen girls when he came out on stage, was the loudest single sound I have ever heard in my life. And I include Ted Nugent at Arrowhead.
My pre-teen records of shame were the Irish Rovers and Jerry Reed.
No paradox at all. The Addams Family is and always has been the superior show, with a loving and supportive nuclear family standing together against the unfeeling and uncomprehending outside world.
The Munsters is a thinly disguised ethnic comedy of a family trying and failing to “pass” as middle-class Protestants. It is badly dated and not funny in today’s world which accepts and expects ethnic and religious differences in homes.
Back in the day, I’d come home from work, and cook my dinner to reruns of “The Nanny”, then eat it to first run episodes of “Star Trek: Voyager” it seemed the ideal way to pass an evening and to get ready for the next day. I can’t stand those shows these days, and I don’t get how I could enjoy spending an evening watching TV. It was my first apartment, and it just seemed like a simpler time.
Laugh-In. I can’t believe how I used to love that show as a wee little shaver. Everyone did, but it did not hold up well at all
I used to like Black Sabbath. They say pot doesn’t harm you. Hell it doesn’t!