By FuzzyMemoriesTV
A public service announcement from the Chicago Heart Association broadcast in Chicago on December 14, 1979. Featuring Carleton the Mime.
Posted on December 1, 2011
They Had A Doctor Who Fest In Lombard
With Special Guest Inspector Spacetime
The annual convention billed as the premier Doctor Who event in the Midwest took place over the weekend.
(From the Elgin Courier-News preview: “For the uninitiated, Doctor Who involves the exploits of the titular character, a time lord from another world who takes human companions on adventures through history using the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), a space ship of sorts that looks like an English police box on the outside. The British sci-fi series originally ran from 1963 until 1989. There was a made-for-TV movie in 1996. The series returned to the BBC in 2005, and now it is more popular than ever.”)
Let’s take a look.
1. “I only travel first class . . . ”
Posted on November 29, 2011
Family Ties Mom At Chicago Pro-Choice Event
Out As A Lesbian; Also Had An Abortion
“Local bipartisan pro-choice political action committee Personal PAC hosted its 18th annual luncheon Nov. 17 at the Hilton Chicago,” Windy City Times reported last week. “Events began with a VIP reception featuring speaker and out actress Meredith Baxter.”
In an interview that WCT’s Jerry Nunn, Baxter revealed a personal link to the cause:
“To tell the truth, I had an abortion. I didn’t write about that [in her book] because it was just another sad aspect to my relationship with David [Birney]. I had to. It was actually a therapeutic abortion. It just happened to come a couple of years after Roe v. Wade was signed as a law. It was certainly legal. It had to happen and that was fine. It was a horrible time in our lives. It was two years into our marriage. I was desperately unhappy. I already had three children and thought I cannot do this again. I thought I was going to lose my mind if I had this other child. I wasn’t ready for a fourth. I think it was before I did Family.”
Posted on November 28, 2011
Beavis & Butt-head Do Thanksgiving
They Prefer The Stuffing
You put it in the turkey’s butt and then it comes out of your butt.
Posted on November 22, 2011
AdVault: Morris Clothing 1979
A British Guy’s Funny, Smart Take On Mob Wives: Chicago
By Cyrousg1
The few Outfit geriatrics left apparently gave approval to reality TV filming their women. It’s bullshit!
Posted on November 18, 2011
The Real Andy Rooney
By Steve Rhodes
Celebrated 60 Minutes commentator and Tribune Media Services syndicated columnist, died last week. The tributes were many, but Rooney was more Archie Bunker than, well, the avuncular Andy Rooney described in so many stories. Let’s take a look.
1. On the suicide of Kurt Cobain.
Posted on November 10, 2011
City Honors Bill Kurtis For His Service To Official Sources
By Steve Rhodes
Monday was Bill Kurtis Day in Chicago. I don’t see what’s so great about Bill Kurtis; just the other day he was chatting on the air with “reporter” Jay Levine and co-anchor Walter Jacobson about how Rahm Emanuel’s budget was a “win” for the people of Chicago. That’s great journalism?
Time and again I’ve seen this kind of nonsense coming from the unfrozen dynamic duo manning the Channel 2 news desk. It’s sickening, but then again this is a town with a journalism association that recently honored Stella Foster with a lifetime achievement award.
Kurtis, of course, is really a spokesman for Corporate America and a shill for pols staging groundbreakings, not a journalist.
As I wrote in July 2010, Kurtis has been City Hall’s official emcee for years
No wonder they gave him a day.
Posted on November 9, 2011
Meet Jason Shaver: Voice Of The Chicago Wolves
By Steve Rhodes
I grew up in Minnesota listening to Al Shaver broadcast North Stars games. Now his grandson, Jason, is in his third season doing play-by-play for the Chicago Wolves. Here’s a little profile put together by the team.
Posted on November 8, 2011
The American Autumn On RT
By RT America
When it was an Arab Spring they were heroes. When an American Autumn came they were mocked and misrepresented on other channels. But not here. Watch American Autumn on RT.
Posted on November 4, 2011