Good shows, all.

Thanks witbee~ I knew you would think so~ I hoped so anyway! ;-)

 I love this country and finding out about all the nooks and crannies of our history is fascinating to me.

The real "commie" stuff is on NPR, not PBS. PBS has some great programming.

LOL...I just had to use that buzz word. Attention seeker that I am...

I'm a PBS addict. I also selectively watch History and Discovery channels regularly. It's not so much I'm an egghead or a commie, I just have a low threshhold for sitcoms and unrealistic cop shows. I'd rather learn something about the real world. Yet, I do record The Office and 30 Rock without fail. Even us elitist intellectual commie sheeple have to let the gray matter take a break and indulge some nonsense. 

Exactly my sheeple commie elitist effete intellectual thoughts~ of course since they cloned us...  ;-) 

Well that explains why I love NPR so much.  I just thought I was a cheapo (not a pinko) for the free programming.

The real "commie" stuff is on NPR,

Listened lately?  They've gone pretty right-wing. 

It's getting hard to work all these buzz words into a coherent sentence. 

Let's just say we are intelligent people who demand more from TV and radio.along with the occasional fluff show. I love 30 Rock myself.

It's getting hard to work all these buzz words into a coherent sentence. 

Sage, if you're trying for coherent sentences you'll *NEVER* get the cadence right...

Ah ha! I knew I was doing something wrong...  

Good post Sage. PBS hasn't done a new season in a while but my family loved the House series..Manor House, Frontier House, Colonial House...I remember watching Frontier House and they advertised for Colonial House and I actually downloaded an application. My hubby looked at me like I was crazy and then told me I was crazy :o) What can I say....one of my dream jobs is to be a docent at Williamsburg.

http://obata.wilderness.net...

I just found this site~ this artist is one of the "behind the scenes" Americans that help us see the beauty of our Parks. The site is a little slow~ fitting really~ but this mans work is worth the look.

I wish they'd do another "Frontier House"-esque show.  Those were great!  I always thought it would be interesting to do "Depression House" and shove a few modern families into that time period in our history.   See how much they complain after that. :)

I have to confess I liked those shows too~ especially when the inevitable break downs occurred. After watching those shows, I tried hard not to complain myself.

One last thought as I head out the door.  Motopoet told me that aside from just liking Huell Howser on PBS, he really takes you to some great places.  Places you may never heard of or imagined and places he now wants to visit.  It' sjust one more great feature of PBS.  And I lOVE the mysteries, murder, mayhem and all.

Just don't forget Huell for a great travelogue.   He may be a tad corny but worth the information.

Just don't forget Huell for a great travelogue.

Huell's good people.  He's just the same in person.

As my status update says, I spent all day yesterday watching the rerun of the Cronkite Remembers series on Discovery Channel. It's nice to have some good history shows, particularly when they can get some first-person accounts of recent historical events. I wish there were more programming like that on TV these days.

As you can see~ I would rather watch a history oriented show any day.

I read that Huell can be pretty fractious to work for but my guess is he wants things to be right.  He's done some great pieces on Bakersfield and KC but what I like is he seems just tickled  no matter where he is.  And if I've heard "Mah GOSH, this is the most (beautiful, most interesting, most exciting, most unusual, take your pick) place" once I've heard it a hundred times.

One of my favorites I watch in reruns is the teardrop trailer gathering.  Another was the four corners of CA when he confronted (in good humor) a couple of Oregonians and informed them they actually lived in CA  by however they establish that sort of thing.  Those guys got a little huffy and the show was funny.

I'm always surprised at Californians who have never heard of him.  Their loss.

Not to mention he is one fine specimen of manhood.  (sorry, just had to throw that in)

LOL Nancy~ true that. He did the walk up to half dome~ healthy man ;-) but I had to close my eyes when they got to close to the edge.  I have a *serious* case of fear of heights.

I just know some of you are just dying to know~ so Yes~~ the piece that a man had was part of Amelia Earhardt's plane.

Apparently she crash landed in Hawaii and an airman scooped up a fragment of the plane. The cool thing is ,now that the piece has been authenticated,it can be used to verify other pieces that people speculate belong to her plane.

As if we didn't know already we are officially one week behind.But if it is any consolation ,L.A. must be too~ next week  should be about New Philadelphia.

Last nights TimeTraveler was about the amazing Ranch Creek site~ a true national treasure.

I have followed this site from the moment I first heard about it~ and having the team there for 3 days will definitely allow for more discoveries there.

Anyone else on Brighthouse analog cable noticing that the PBS station on channel 18 (KVPT) keeps pixelating? It has to be the feed to Brighthouse since analog cable does not pixelate with bad signals. At least there's the LA PBS station (KCET) on channel 10 that seems to have a clean feed.

It(KVPT) does that with over the air (digital) ~ but I have been turning off the converter box and get KCET over the air with a clean signal.

KVPT's signal must be weak...plus I have big trees all around so that messes with the signal

At least both of them were showing the Time Traveler special last night.