Rage Against the (Windstream) Machine II: Texas Blood Money

It took close to three years for the sequel to this post from August 2017 to hit the blogosphere...and I’ll give you a spoiler warning: it isn’t all that different from the original. Saturday morning, I was having connectivity issues (as in...no connectivity) and with sinking-stomach-pit dread I phoned Windstream to report that there was…

Johnny on the spot

My chum Rich from Wide Screen World left me a link on my Facebook page two days ago, pointing me to this article at Mediaite that asks the musical question: “Remember When Late Night Talk Shows Were… Entertaining?” What in the heck has happened to late night comedy?  As a kid I remember Johnny Carson……

Best of the west

To commemorate the release this week in UK theaters of Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010)—a western that competed with Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere (2010) for the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival and lost—several critics at Time Out London have compiled a list of what they believe to be The Fifty Greatest Westerns of all time.  Cutoff makes the list (at #45) and I…

“…Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and Spam.”

Sunday evening, some technically proficient miscreant who apparently doesn’t have enough extracurricular activities to occupy his/her free time hacked into my Gmail account and sent everyone on my contact list a generous offer to purchase what I believe to be (I didn’t click on the link, obviously—my blogging compadre at Allure gave me the heads up) Canadian…

The good, the bad and the ugly

Here’s why making New Year’s resolutions are ultimately an exercise in futility: I’m not even halfway into the month of January and already my resolve to get more posts up on the blog has pretty much fizzled out.  Blog inactivity is never a good thing because when you stay away from the blogosphere too long…

…and now here’s something we hope you really (don’t) like…”

I’m going to be away from the blog for the next day or so—got a few family-themed events on the calendar, including a promise to help the patriarch of the Shreve family on Saturday with a thing that’s going on at his storage building. The people who rent space there will be selling stuff in…

The Half-Assed Gourmand #8: Gumby’s Pizza edition

It hasn’t been a very productive work week here at Rancho Yesteryear. My particular area of Athens lost power on Wednesday morning, and when it finally came back on I had to deal with restoring the juice in my own domicile because the outage ended up tripping a few circuit breakers…not to mention dealing with a…

“I’m sorry…I’m just a guy who cares an awful lot about my classic movie channel…”

I don’t make it a point to visit Big Hollywood too often—mostly because I haven’t had all my shots—but this recent post by editor-in-chief John Nolte sort of started in me an involuntary rolling-of-the-eyeballs. Titled “Will Ben Mankiewicz Be Allowed to Destroy Turner Classic Movies?”, it describes how Johnny-O had to mosey on over to his fainting couch because Big…

I was going to publish this as a comment, but it sort of got away from me…

Rockfish (love that Gandolf Fitch reference, by the way): Thanks so much for taking the time out to offer a dissenting opinion on this issue. You might also want to read a post by my very good friend ThadK at his blog that also lines up with your take on the Archives as well. (At first I kind of…

Five days on the road

The irony of hearing that the Postmonster Postmaster General is pleading with Congress to allow the US Post Office (or as my friend Linda is wont to call it, the Post Awful) to stop mail delivery on Saturdays—at the same time online movie rental behemoth Netflix was considering shipping deliveries on the weekends has not been lost on a few of my…