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Los Angeles, you are on TOP of Wacko Nation tonight, as looney Phil Spector is declared a mistrial.  If I had a Wacko rating system right now, I'd give this a WWWWW - 5 stars worth of wacko.

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True crime shows are all the rage in Prime Time television right now. Thank you, Jeebus! Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for non-fiction and biographies.  I was the kid who thought the Encyclopedia was the best book in the entire library, and couldn't figure out why all of my tween friends (this scenario takes place back in the day when we were just called kids) were going bonkers over Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

All my life, I have sort of secretly hated television because it was just one boring novel after another. Occassionally there would be a break in the Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Dukes of Hazard routine, and a new pre-Reality TV show would shake up the airwaves.  Real People, I'm talking about you! 

I'm getting to the true crime part, I swear. Just keep reading.

Jack Links Beef Jerky has a wonderful series of commercials out right now called Messin' With Sasquatch. My personal favorite is the Pickup Truck spot. But go check out the Official Messin With Sasquatch site to see them all! 

Sasquatch even has a MySpace page, which he updates regularly, unlike everyone else!. His life is absolutely riveting, so of course I added him to my friends list.  I love being able to get all Web 2.0 with Big Foot!


Happy BIrthday, Jetsons

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On This Day in History!

On September 23, 1962 the first episode of The Jetsons aired.


Thanks to priceytv for posting the Jetson's intro on YouTube!

  


Thanks to daftmahatma for posting this clip from the early Jetsons.
 
I was thrilled to discover that you can buy individual Jetsons episodes  for $1.99 from Amazon using their  Amazon Unbox service. I downloaded a few episodes to my TiVo this weekend so that I could introduce this Hannah Barbara classic to my 3 year old, Beckett.  He watched enthusiastically, and wanted to play space family when it was over. 
 
While we are definitely not living the space age life of the Jetson famliy, we did pay homage to them by naming our iRobot Scooba, Rosie. Oh, how I love you, Rosie! 

Oh! Beware before you use Amazon's Unbox service. Boing Boing doesn't like it one bit!  I personally decided to go for it since it integrates effortlessly with TiVo, and my TiVo's Kid Zone. I have been waiting for years for TiVo to make a deal with a distributor so that we could use our TiVo service to watch rented content.  I was so excited, I took the plunge, and so far I've been happy with the choice.

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