Ah, that reminds me. Aerosmith. When I was a kid I loved them. Decades later I’m like, “Wow, that’s some misogynist garbage.”
Ditto Red Hot Chili Peppers. I saw a reaction video to “Under the Bridge” and the guy hated it. Hated it. And then I listened to it some more and realized… It’s not that good.
A lot of the music I really loved as a teenager makes me sad now, because in order for a girl to love, say, the Rolling Stones, she’s got to indulge in a fair amount of self-hatred.
You know what, this is a pretty good call. I wonder if she helped prepare millions of older Americans to accept a lot of baloney we find on social media these days? It’s probably a bit unfair to place all that blame on Oprah, but she was a very influential woman.
There used to be a tongue-in-cheek website dedicated to attempting to live your life according to what you learned from watching Oprah. The remember the owner of the site being interviewed saying it was impossible to follow all the advice she had given and that some of it was contradictory. But with 25 years of material that’s not a surprise.
No, the low point in Spielberg’s filmography was 1941.
I’m really surprised that no one has mentioned the Sherwood Schwartz duo: Gilligan’s Island, and The Brady Bunch. Watch them today - the acting is terrible.
We were at Dollywood a few years ago, and were in Gatlinburg for a day. It’s the Wisconsin Dells of Tennessee. All the same kitchy junk stores, t-shirt shops, befuddling exhibits (why is there a Titanic museum in Tennessee?), built around natural beauty. I can respect Wall Drug more - all that stuff under one roof, and there’s no “there” there - it’s a tourist trap built around nothing. It’s the Seinfeld of tourism!
I used to love Spirit Lake. I swear I must have been camping there just about every damn summer in my youth, either with family or with the scouts. Now it is all filled with logs, inaccessible, and the mountain is a smouldering shell of what it used to be – kind of like “death as a career move.”
True. But I mostly hate(d) punk rock and now prefer well-produced music. In my case, I would say that, at a younger age, I enjoyed punk rock and now no longer do. There are a couple exceptions.
I think it’s a law that banana cake has cream cheese frosting. Optional for carrot cake but it is my favorite. When I make buttercream frosting I use a dash of almond flavor instead of vanilla.
Superhero comics. I couldn’t get enough of them. All my comics were 12 centers, and I quit reading long before the 15 cent price. All the stories were short, goofy, and self contained. And I liked the aesthetic of the flat, newspaper style coloring. It seems like contemporary superhero comics artist overdo, to a weird extent, the exaggerated musculature of the heroes, and everything is a crisis with gritted teeth. And I don’t like airbrushing. And if I had a lawn…
heresy!
next thing we know, you will be declaring raisins (preferably golden) and walnuts optional
You are right. How could I have said that?
Zoos are a necessary evil for sound cultural programming reasons. I firmly believe, based on absolutely no statistical evidence whatsoever, that nothing is more effective at converting more kids to at least some semblance of environmentalism than zoos. It also helps cultivate empathy, as above.
The captive breeding programs can be valuable in certain limited cases. But IMHO the zoo’s value as an educational tool is far more profound in the long run.
“The Man From Atlantis”. I loved that one so much, as a kid. Recently, I tried looking at it again. And…well, the original made-for-TV movie actually isn’t bad, I enjoyed seeing it again. But the TV series that followed is… Wow. It’s just terrible. (I haven’t dared re-watching the other three made-for-TV movies.)
I loved “The Greatest American Hero,” too. Even the pilot for that looks really bad nowadays. (Possibly GAH was the origin of my lifelong dislike for any TV series about a character with special powers who ends up secretly working with a cop or a Fed or whatever, to fight crime.)
There is a local company around here that has this guy (complete with shades and sandals) riding a King Cobra as their company logo.
I’m now 54 and if I come across Hook playing while channel surfing I am not moving until it is over. I get it is not Spielberg’s greatest but it delights me every single time I watch it. This one still holds magic for me. BANGARANG!!!
When I was about ten or so, my bedroom was redone, and it included a 4’x8’ burlap covered corkboard on the wall next to the door. One of the things on it for some while was a photo of R. M. Nixon. Not sure if I put it there or my dad did, but a few years later, I was rather non-sad to hear his resignation speech. These days, in many ways, he seems a lot less evil compared to some modern politicians.
Tricky Dick was still very evil though. His illegal actions (particularly those involved in prolonging the Vietnam war) were particularly heinous.