Today I am chugging bottles of water. I am on number three. I am doing this to make myself pee. I have a large jug that I am peeing into, and saving. On Tuesday, when I go to dialysis, I will bring my pee jug and hopefully there will be enough pee in there for … Continue reading Sunday Drinking
I’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’m writing about the Beach Boys TV special as it airs. -Tom Hanks opens with a very nice, simple intro about growing up in California and experiencing the development of the Beach Boys from surf songs to the sophisticated work on albums like “Pet Sounds.” Tom Hanks should … Continue reading A Grammy “Salute” To The Beach Boys
I’m grumpy about some television news today. Too grumpy to share it with you in my own words, so here, from Dateline Hollywood: The Price Is Right is on the move. The popular CBS game show, produced by Fremantle, is leaving Television City, the Los Angeles studio complex where it has taped since its 1972 launch. The … Continue reading From Nondescript Warehouse Of TV Production In Glendale!
The title of this entry says it all. Well, not really, or this would be a terribly short article. I love Nebraska. If I didn’t love Nebraska, I wouldn’t be here for a quarter-century. (Give or take half a year.) But I hate Nebraska winter. January through…oh, let’s just say June to be safe–is a … Continue reading Winter Blahs
Before establishing wentyworld.com, I had a plain old WordPress blog for fourteen years. It’s still there. Kind of like a mall that closes down but still has the carousel, escalators and other components sitting and gathering dust. I wrote a lot of silly things for that blog, and this is one of them. This article … Continue reading How I’d Fix Weddings (WP Blog 5/19/15)
I am going to curb my enthusiasm for 2023, because 2022 was one of the best years of my life. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not writing off the new year before it happens or anything. 2023 will eventually mark my 25th radioversary with KCOW…I have a pretty major vacation adventure planned for May…and … Continue reading Wentyworld 2022: The Year In Review
Before we begin, allow me to put on my “I appreciate The Muppets on a much deeper level than you” T-shirt. I am, as many of you already know, an absolute Muppet freak. And Christmastime is a bonanza of Muppet awesomeness. There’s “Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas”, a show that manages to be a Christmas … Continue reading W/O/C: “A Muppet Family Christmas”
So, Rolling Stone did an article listing, in their editors’ opinions, the 100 Greatest TV Theme Songs Of All Times. Two notes before moving further: One, these lists are generally designed to spark debate and conversation about what was included, what was not, what shoulda been, etc. So I am but a cog in the … Continue reading Ten TV Theme Songs “Rolling Stone” Missed
“Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we have to say goodbye.” “Snoopy Come Home”, released in 1972, is the second Peanuts animated feature film. There are some big differences between this one and “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” For one thing, aside from certain music choices (which we’ll get into), this movie looks … Continue reading Sob Story: “Snoopy Come Home”
“But did you notice Charlie Brown?” “What’s that?” “The world didn’t come to an end.” As you have heard me grumble about previously, the Peanuts holiday specials no longer air on network television. They are exclusive to Apple TV or, as is the case in my home, a Blu Ray box set, because streaming services … Continue reading Melancholy Blockhead: “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”
