History Surfaces In Danube

Confuzzled

Live Tee Vee

E.K. Sez "Bullshit"!

"E.K." being Dodger telebision analyst Eric Karros.

The DVR: Can't live w/o it. And hey, voice-over idiot, try pronouncing "veterans" as it's spelled, not "vetrins". It's almost as if you don't actually care.

Too Much Baseball?

P.S.: Peacock sucks. Makes me wonder if any Peacock/NBC/Universal executives their watch their own crap, or if they do & are happy w/ it. Can barely sell any ads, either. Only positive in this mess is that I needn't subscribe to Peacock, because I can watch by signing on to my cable system. Which is probably why it's now US$300.00 a fucking month. Death to pirates!

Electricity!

Copyright 1876 by Currier & Ives, New York

Today is National Electricity Day, commemorating Ben Franklin connecting electricity & lightning on this date (or 10 June) 1752.I'm thinking this electricity stuff is overrated, or worse.

Look at that. First there is juice, then there is no juice, then there is.

Some of that intermittency is due to the searchlight car itself, so I s'pose now I'll have to blow 20 or so bones on a voltimeter. Battery makers: Please make an inexpensive battery small enough that it doesn't require a permanently coupled box car & will last four or five hrs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.If I have to buy a soldering iron & solder the damn rails together I will not be a happy camper. Unfortunately, there's really no one to blame but myself.

Music To Lay Track By

J'ai bien deux faces.No idea why I arse myself; find your own entertainment.

Tee Vee Was Much Better 52 Yrs. Ago

What do the children have on Saturday mornings now? Not a damn thing, that's what.

Sez on Facebook: Another Cris Shapen masterpiece, whatever that means. Illiterate, non-proofing moron, it's Shapan.

Sage Burning

Ritual cleansing of tunes from the'60s & '70s being used to advertise fucking air-polluting shitmobiles. An admission there's been little good music made in the last forty-odd yrs.?

Enjoyably stupid fun, & it does rock. Produced by Todd Rundgren, which helps.Proto-punk from the Great Northwest. Tacoma, to be speccfic. The ad agency cut the opening "Hey little girl" line.And this rousing "Fuck You" to all the sheep in their boxes, also used to pimp wheels, which just just appeared on Sunday Nihght Baseball on the Nasty Broadcasting Company."For families that don't fit in a box." A selective edit of a cover. Can't handle the truth. I hope the royalties are going to a decent cause, or at least a descendant, as Reynolds was the socialist type.

Can't Find The Bums-Phils Game

"Free" trial? To watch any of this crap? Never heard of any of it, none of it is interesting. And "Formula 1"?
"MLS"? Excuse me, Apple, but are these the United States or some woke Euro shithole? If you don't like it
here, feel free to send all your placstic crap back to China or wherever it's made, go to Europe & watch
all the races & matches you can stand. Real Americans will be at the drag strip &/or watching football.

Because Apple has it & I'll never buy anything from them. Can I threaten the lives of Apple execs for stealing from me w/o one of you squealing rat bastards calling the police to have me kidnapped again? Or do you chumps want to continue to pay even more for much less?

"Yeeeeessssss?"

When Tee Vee Was King

Kills me every time. Plenty more on YouTube; do your own research.

J.J. Sedelmaier, director of the Wendy's "Where's The Beef?" commercial & other popular '80s adverts, was 92.They're dropping like flies.

 New Jersey Online:

Donald Newhouse, who inherited a media empire, led Advance Publications' newspaper and cable TV divisions, and was Newark Star-Ledger president, dies at 96  —  Donald E. Newhouse, who as President of The Star-Ledger and head of Advance Publications' newspaper group presided over a prolonged period …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:   BuzzMachine  —  I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse …

Clay Risen / New York Times:   Donald E. Newhouse, Low-Profile Heir to a Media Empire, Dies at 96

Larry Arnold / Bloomberg:   Donald Newhouse, Who Led Family's Newspaper Group, Dies at 96

Genaro C. Armas / Newhouse School …:   Donald Newhouse's Belief in Higher Education Helped Establish Syracuse University as a Premier Training Ground for Journalists

Just saw this, for Saurday 19 November 1955. More Weterns than you could shake a six-shooter at, & Yma Sumac on Stage Show w/ the Dorsey Bros. In Jan. '56 Elvis Presley made his first national telebision appearance on the program.

[Sedelmaier obit from Off the Kuff.]

Cream Of The Crop

In Humanizing The Vacuum's "Good to Great" section, these are the top three. Absolutely correct.Two Motowns & a Checker (W/ a great Don Bronstein cover.) Whence else at the time?

Surf Sunday

From this reporter's salad days.Two more I liked from HTV's list. The surfin' Trashmen are from ... Minnesota.

And to make it a Top 40 radio-style 'tween the adverts set of three under-three-mins. tunes, the Lawrence Welk version:

The Wiccan Menace Threatens Us All!

Get Help Before It's Too Late, Weirdo!

Will this delusional witchfinder order the Navy to start bombing Monterey because Wiccans give him the willies?

Here is a video of new Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao warning that a wave of Wiccan "witchcraft" is taking over American and threatening Christianity pic.twitter.com/uwpkf03ENm

— FactPost (@factpostnews) April 23, 2026

What rocks does the Pervert Party turn over to find these bizarre specimens?

“We can’t let it turn like this. There’s a place in Monterey, California called Lovers Point. The original name was Lovers of Christ Point, but now it’s become– they took out the Christ, it’s Lovers Point, and it’s really– Monterey is a very dark place now,” said Cao during an interview with former Bethel Church pastor Sean Feucht. “A lot of witchcraft and the Wiccan community has really taken over. We can’t let that happen to Virginia.”

Business Insider reported at the time that while there did appear to be a Wiccan presence in Monterey, there was “little evidence that the community has ‘taken over’ the sunny seaside locale.”

It's the 21st damn Century, people: Comic books & fairy tales are not real. Fun, but fiction!! And now, the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion is becoming fiction.

Fact check: It's in Pacific Grove, not Monterey, it may not have been "Lovers of Christ Park" since the 19th Century, when it was a Methodist retreat, & it's now a city park, so no endorsement of religion. Acting Sec. Cao seems to know more about fairy stories than our Constitution & its First amenedment.

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Meanwhile, On YouTube ...

In the name of all that's holy*, what did I watch for this to be offered me? Nothing I can remember.Anyone know what she's talking about? Is this some form of "Jews for Jesus", but don't call him "Jesus"?

I do like her claim that the gummint is Gawd's punishment. Har har har! Gettin' it good & hard, Yankee pig-dogs!!

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*Remember kids, nothing is sacred!

The Sporting News

Baseball Match — 1894

Evan Drellich / The Athletic:

Sources: the nine MLB teams televised by FanDuel Sports Network have ended their contracts with FanDuel SN after multiple teams failed to get scheduled payments  —  The nine Major League Baseball teams televised by FanDuel Sport Network have terminated their contracts with FanDuel SN …
Drew Lerner / Awful Announcing:   All nine MLB teams reportedly terminate contracts with FanDuel Sports Network

Tom Friend / Sports Business Journal:   Sources: Main Street hints at talks with second bidder

Associated Press:   Manfred Says MLB Prepared To Produce & Distribute Local Broadcasts For FanDuel Network Teams

Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:   MLB Cancels Its TV Contract With FanDuel Sports Network

Barrett Media:   MLB Teams Reportedly Exit FanDuel Sports Network Amid Financial Struggles

David Satin / The Streamable:   Is Fubo preparing to buy FanDuel Sports Network channels?

Cablefax:   Main Street, FDSN Woes Impacting Teams' Finances

This can't be good. Thought FanDuel was a sportsbook/gambling app deal. They must be stupid like Trump to lose money at that. Nope, wrong again; the Wiki sez the name on the outside is a branding deal, not actual ownership. I think. More hot poop. Hah! Sinclair & other corporate scum.

In August 2022, FanDuel announced the re-launch of TVG Network —a co-owned horse racing cable network— as FanDuel TV. The channel would continue to primarily carry live coverage of horse racing events, but would expand its coverage of mainstream sports from a gambling perspective. On October 16, 2024, Diamond Sports Group revealed in a bankruptcy court filing that it had reached an agreement with FanDuel Group to rebrand its the Bally Sports regional sports networks FanDuel Sports Network. The agreement contains an option for FanDuel to take a 5% equity stake in Diamond upon its exit from chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Diamond subsequently became known as Main Street Sports Group.

Wish I knew what that actually meant. Who "co-owned" TVG Network? And is FanDuel the sportsbook currently giving money to Main Street Sports Group &/or FanDuel Sports Network? Corporations hiding as if they were criminals afraid of the light of day. Imagine that.

Teams affected.

Roots Of Hip-Hop

Festive Friday Finger

Season's Greetings From Us To You

Your genial host forced into Santa drag at his banking gig in the later '80s.

Relic

Unless, I s'pose, one is "cord-cutting".

Support Mental Health Or ...

Riding Horsies W/ Jebus: Delusion Or Hallucination?

Could just be drooling idiocy. Hair coloring is not good for the brain, ladies.Certainly delusionary that the dead little prick would be anywhere near (imaginary) heaven. Or a horse ranch in heaven w/ Jebus. What are this woman's hang ups? No, don't tell me.

And I'll bet hell is thrice the "fun".

New Palms

Landscaping for the soon-to-open Wilshire-La Brea D Line station.