It's a dead weekend after a very crazy week. So I guess I should not feel guilty for vegetating but I do. Not enough to actually do anything about it though.
I cruised Prius Chat, looked at Facebook ( I still don't get it), brushed the dog and picked up a few hair tumble weeds. So this is the extent of my brain capacity this weekend. Oh well.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Independence Day
I love these holidays! I let all the crazy people go off to the beaches and I stay at home watching Twilight Zone on SciFi! I love TZ.
When I was a kid, TZ was on Friday nights. My mom would come home from Bingo and be upset with my dad ...... "she's going to have nightmares!" I think my dad knew that there was nothing in TZ to be afraid of, indeed TZ episodes should be shown to people as a form of brainwashing. TZ teaches us to be happy with what we have, it teaches us that we are flawed and that we must always try to do our best.
The TZ episodes from the 60's (actual start 1959) often dealt with the end of the world. The earth moving out of it's orbit, nuclear war, aliens from outer space. It was the time of insecurity, cuban missiles and the shows reflected that.
Wanting more was also a common theme, the couple with the genie learned that what they already had was good enough. Burgess Meredith as the bank teller always looking for time to read was such a perfect example of being careful about wishing for more. After a nuclear blast he has all the time in the world to read but accidently breaks his glasses without which he cannot read.
The power of belief and faith in the mind were evident in the episode where a father in a wagon train with a sick child crosses over time to retrieve antibiotics that will serve to save his child. Or the episode with the WWI British flyer who in fear loses his way and ends up lost in present time. He learns that the guy he was flying with was not killed but rather saved by him. He flies back to his own time with new found courage.
And bullies beware! Astornauts find a civilization of tiny people, one of them lets it go to his head. He kills his cohorts and makes the small people worship him, though in fear. Then he is discovered by an even larger civilization who accidently crush him.
So why would anyone believe that TZ was bad for you. I have to believe that if Rod Serling could see the crap that is on TV today he would cry. All that today's TV teaches is that the more obnoxious you are then the more likely it is you will end up on TV.
Happy Independence Day!
When I was a kid, TZ was on Friday nights. My mom would come home from Bingo and be upset with my dad ...... "she's going to have nightmares!" I think my dad knew that there was nothing in TZ to be afraid of, indeed TZ episodes should be shown to people as a form of brainwashing. TZ teaches us to be happy with what we have, it teaches us that we are flawed and that we must always try to do our best.
The TZ episodes from the 60's (actual start 1959) often dealt with the end of the world. The earth moving out of it's orbit, nuclear war, aliens from outer space. It was the time of insecurity, cuban missiles and the shows reflected that.
Wanting more was also a common theme, the couple with the genie learned that what they already had was good enough. Burgess Meredith as the bank teller always looking for time to read was such a perfect example of being careful about wishing for more. After a nuclear blast he has all the time in the world to read but accidently breaks his glasses without which he cannot read.
The power of belief and faith in the mind were evident in the episode where a father in a wagon train with a sick child crosses over time to retrieve antibiotics that will serve to save his child. Or the episode with the WWI British flyer who in fear loses his way and ends up lost in present time. He learns that the guy he was flying with was not killed but rather saved by him. He flies back to his own time with new found courage.
And bullies beware! Astornauts find a civilization of tiny people, one of them lets it go to his head. He kills his cohorts and makes the small people worship him, though in fear. Then he is discovered by an even larger civilization who accidently crush him.
So why would anyone believe that TZ was bad for you. I have to believe that if Rod Serling could see the crap that is on TV today he would cry. All that today's TV teaches is that the more obnoxious you are then the more likely it is you will end up on TV.
Happy Independence Day!
Anti-Social?!
I don't get things like Facebook. I looked at it and pretty much did not find it very interesting. I did not even use accurate info yet I can still be identified. I find that frightening. I know this is a public domain as well but the likelihood of many people reading these or looking for a person here is less likely. This seems like a safer place to think out loud.
Facebook seems filled with the mundane but often personal information. Once you have done anything on it you apparently cannot delete the information. I don't really need to know every move that a friend makes. I miss more personal contact, more meaningful things.
So I guess that in this day and age I would be considered antisocial cause I don't care for things like Facebook. Oh well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later....I am becoming an old fart!
Facebook seems filled with the mundane but often personal information. Once you have done anything on it you apparently cannot delete the information. I don't really need to know every move that a friend makes. I miss more personal contact, more meaningful things.
So I guess that in this day and age I would be considered antisocial cause I don't care for things like Facebook. Oh well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later....I am becoming an old fart!
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