And you tell me over and over and over again, my friend

[sovay]

On the telehealth this afternoon with the nurse practitioner, I had the opportunity to include "comedically loud sneezing" among my repertoire of symptoms. I am being treated for a presumption of bronchitis for a week, after which if I do not improve I have to walk into a building and get X-rayed. Please cross your fingers for Team Bronchitis. In the meantime, have some links.

1. I learned this story originally from the radio astronomy side: "Why You Generally Can't Find TV Stations on Channel 37."

2. I'm not crazy about the headline, but it belongs to an intelligent essay by Emily Mortimer: "How 'Lolita' Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture." Also I grew up on her father's books and scripts and I had no idea of the connection.

3. I knew how much Henry Ford had angered American Jews (I wrote him a haiku once!), but I did not know our calendar had in fact come for him.

So both days of this weekend I had recording sessions over Zoom with A Besere Velt, in consequence of which in the evenings I was a puddle of mush with a cat on it and occasionally coughing, in consequence of which I fell face-first into The Greatest American Hero (1981–83), in consequence of which I have now been playing Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" for something over twelve hours: sholio has the full story. Music licensing for home release is beginning to assume the proportions of a devil. I am enjoying the series immensely. It is one of the shows where the narrative level of the plot is almost always nonsense, but all of the character work is engaging and sound and sometimes criminally endearing—it's not at all serialized, but it has continuity and growth. Robert Culp's Bill Maxwell has been added to my list of favorite characters. I suspect the show of being terrifically idtastic, but most of the time its id is really nice.

Comments

[asakiyume]

In that song, I like the rhyme of "explodin'... bullets loadin'"--and I liked your comment over on sholio's entry about Bill Maxwell being a one-person Whumptober card. He sounds great!

Ughh, okay, I will pray for bronchitis if it's better than alternatives--I guess the idea is that if it's bronchitis, the meds will clear it up? I hear in the news about how there's very little flu about, because of everyone distancing and wearing masks, and yet somehow people do still end up getting things--you with the presumed bronchitis, and over on Twitter a friend reported coming down with something too (a person who also is very careful about not coming in contact with people). I feel like that must tell us something about the omnipresence of certain infectious agents ... Anyway, be that as it may: here's hoping the medicine clears things up.

[davidgillon]

Fingers crossed for bronchitis, my sister's about a week ahead of you in her current round of testing, but she has asthma, so it's easy to tell what the base issue is. OTOH they're being unusually thorough and she now been told to pop in on Thursday for an ECG!

[minoanmiss]

Bwee :)

[selkie]

Whoa. Get it, lunar calendar.

On the Matter of Henry Ford's Passing

[dewline]

I am grimly amused and satisfied. That it did not become necessary to organize a new holy day for the occasion is cause for some of that satisfaction. The divine can be efficient at times like this.

[gwynnega]

I hope that it's bronchitis, and that it responds quickly to treatment.

According to family lore, Barry McGuire once came to our house to pick up my oldest sister on a motorcycle.

[thisbluespirit]

I suspect the show of being terrifically idtastic, but most of the time its id is really nice.

Aw, well that's good!

[sholio]

The channel 37 link is especially interesting because I used to live very close to Danville (a few towns over, but I know exactly where it is) and I didn't have any idea there was a big radio telescope there!

I suspect the show of being terrifically idtastic, but most of the time its id is really nice.

As thoroughly bonkers as the show is, I really appreciate that it has a general feeling of warmth and kindness that's really pleasant to spend time with. You get the feeling that the writers like the characters as much as the audience does.

[oracne]

I had SUCH a crush on Robert Culp. Okay, still have. But haven't been able to watch my I Spy DVDs, because Cosby.