They have clips of events they’ve hosted in their New York and Los Angeles locations. Fun stuff like panel discussions with: the “whacked Sopranos”; the writing staff for “Late Night with Conan O’Brian”; the cast of “30 Rock”. Take a look. link
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Obit: Elma Gardner Farnsworth, 98, wife of Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television
We all owe a great debt to Philo T. Farnsworth. He’s known to many, but not most, as the true inventor of what became television. Married in 1926, Elma was at the side of Philo when he first tested the invention he had conceived seven years earlier while going back and forth plowing a field […]
Continue readingTV-Turnoff Week is this week, April 24-30
Can’t say I support this cause. I mean, really, does it make sense to categorically denounce all television? But in case you are more sympathetic, here’s the mission statement of the TV Turnoff Network. Speaking of cultural literacy, this image is from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (VHS 1942).
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