Balladeer’s Blog’s fondness for the old Movie Host Shows of long ago has been well established. Sunday was the Fortieth Anniversary of the very first episode of The Texas 27 Film Vault from Saturday, February 9th of 1985. Before Joel and Mike there was Randy and Richard, as I often mention. My psychotically obsessive research […]
PROFILES IN COURAGE (1964-1965) – This television series took its name from the late President John F. Kennedy’s non-fiction book of that title. Some of the episodes dramatized specific sections of JFK’s book while others depicted what the producers felt were similar instances of political figures facing tough choices. Those choices were between following their […]
LUCKY SEVEN (1978) – Years before the hacker calling himself Captain Midnight hijacked HBO airtime to protest their high prices and years before the weird Max Headroom parody hack in Chicago came this forgotten incident in the annals of pirate broadcasting. As many people know, pirate radio stations were often able to operate for months […]
You live in the colour red and death is blue. Death. You think it’s not there, but it’s there. When you were in school, your teachers enjoyed telling you about the algorithms of things. You could add endless zeroes to any number. Say for instance, you could add nine more zeroes to thirty five billion. […]
