Tom Holmberg

You had to have the right kind of phone and pay extra for caller ID. Back then I think most people used a telephone recorder to screen calls.

In Re: discussion of pumpkin spice. Starbucks puts it back on the menu as of Aug. 30th.

Whatever it's called, when done right, it's good! (Unfortunately everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and a lot of it is pretty terrible.) Hopefully this won't happen with Italian beef, after that "The Bear" show's popularity.

Everybody's doing Nashville hot chicken.

Chicago's Edgewater Historical Society will unveil a marker commemorating comedian Bob Newhart on Sept 1 at 11:30 AM at Colvin House, 5940 N Sheridan Rd, near the Thorndale Beach North Condominiums, featured as the fictional home of Bob and Emily Hartley in The Bob Newhart Show

I find the ad kind of funny, basically do to the girl's excellent delivery of her lines.

Why does Dr. Scholl's have that villainous looking guy in their ad? Are they trying to attract the foot fetish crowd?

No matter what you do to keep them from your bird feeder they figure it out.

Should probably stop with the anal sex with her boyfriend.

The first one. I assume guilt at eating wieners (hot DOGS) in front of wiener dogs. Especially when they look at the wiener dog pup.

Never watched "Harry O" but I'm rewatching "The Fugitive." I like David Janssen, but he always seems so depressed (not just in "The Fugitive", but in "Shoes of the Fisherman" and "Warning Shot" which I watched about a year ago.

Tomorrow, Fri Aug. 19, TCM is showing a bunch of Japanese samurai pictures, including the standards: "Yojimbo", "Seven Samurai", "Rashomon", "Throne of Blood"; as well as some not as well-known, like "Zatoichi meet Yojimbo",with Toshiro Mifune's character meeting up with the blind-masseur-swordsman-gambler (yeah, that's right! This is the 20th movie in the Zatoichi series), Zatoichi.

That could be a sequel to the "Seinfeld" episode where Kramer uses butter as suntan lotion. Elaine uses Mayo in her hair and looks like a chicken salad sandwich to Newman.

The Midwest is also notoriously ranch dressing land. So I guess its the whole country. https://www.amazon.com/Midwest-Survival-Guide-Drink-Everything/dp/0063074958/

None. Not only that but my parents never knew. It all had to do with how much peanut butter you used and how to put the bread in the toaster. It actually tasted pretty darn good. (I was a sneaky little kid.)

As a kid I'd eat Miracle Whip sandwiches (I'd also eat sugar sandwiches and put peanut butter on rye bread then put it in the toaster).

It's not so nonsensical, but unrealistic. In the real world, by the time the kid got to the aquarium the fish would be floating belly up. (In reality no parent would let a kid bring a goldfish bowl on a car trip.)

Maybe their Hello Fresh delivery arrived in time.

A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever James Greene Jr. ISBN: 9781493048243 “Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines.” So wrote Roger Ebert in his review of Ghostbusters, the 1984 blockbuster that handed our paranormal fears over to some of the sharpest comic minds of the day. Ghostbusters instantly resonated with audiences thanks to eye-popping special effects and crackling wit; to date, it remains the highest-grossing horror comedy of all time. The film spawned an Emmy-nominated Saturday morning cartoon, a tentpole 1989 sequel, a contentious 2016 reboot, legions of merchandise, and one of the most dedicated fan bases in history. Ghostbusters also elevated its players to superstardom, something a few cast members found more daunting than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Now, for the first time, the entire history of the slime-soaked franchise is told in A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever. The cohesion of talent during the mid-’70s comedy revolution, the seat-of-their-pants creation of the first Ghostbusters, the explosive success that seemed to mandate a franchise, the five year struggle to make Ghostbusters II, the thirty-one-year struggle to make Ghostbusters III—it’s all here, with incredible attention to detail. Thoroughly researched and engaging, A Convenient Parallel Dimension smashes long-held myths and half truths about the dynamics behind this cultural juggernaut and presents the real story, down to the last drop of ectoplasm.

This looks like they are returning to showing individual episodes. This Sunday's episode aired Feb 6, 1966. Next week is also a actual episode (for all you Topo Gigio fans).

"Linda" does a poor job with the accent. The other woman does a bettah job.

I hate the way he yells "NAAOOW!"

R.I.P. Clu Culager, "The Virginian" and tons of other Westerns (and later horror films) https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/clu-gulager-dead-the-virginian-return-living-dead-1235335294/

Strange grouping in the Ed Sullivan compilation? Still waiting for a British Invasion collection. Sun. Aug 14 ROSEMARY CLOONEY, POMPOFF AND THEDY, AND MORE Today's episode features the Animals, Pompoff and Thedy, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Lama, Alan King, Gino Tonetti, and Chris Kirby.

It's a Chicago thing. Supposedly (Italian American) workers in the stockyards would bring home tough cuts of meat and prepare the meat in a way to make it more tender and sliced it thin.