Sparrowman’s Perch

Wow, I didn’t realize that it was so long since I’ve posted anything here.  Most of you know I’ve been busy with my other (contractual) job.  And when I’m not doing that I’m out and about–home only to sleep.  (I’ve heard some great music in the past several weeks both here and in Pittsburgh).  Many of you I just email personally anyhow.  More later.

Hey!  I found my people!

I am a damned tired of being tossed in with the baby boomers.  Look, one who was one of the first baby boomers had me so I can’t be one of that generation.  

Alas, I am now vindicated!  Precious links below to what I’ve been talking about for the past several years.  To those like me, I feel your pain.  I feel your pain!  And now I can come out of the closet into the open and yell, "I’m here, I’m queer, gondolier … , er… ah, … ummm…,  hum…, a tweener; get used to it! 

It’s bad enough I am a walking-dichotomy already, in several ways — you, who are good friends of mine, know what I mean.  But this particular "in between" thing is one that I will celebrate and then party like it’s 1999, er, 1979!

The links:

• Tweeners.org 
• USA Today article
• Tweeners article on a Boomer website

Are you a "tweener"?  You may be if you remember these as a kid…

• Scooby Doo…, when they were new and as part of an actual Saturday morning line-up of cartoons on network TV.
• In like manner, we also had Bugs Bunny cartoons in that line-up. 
• I miss "Schoolhouse Rock" (e.g. "Conjunction Junction", also shown Saturday mornings)!
• Speaking of TV, of course we had Mister Roger’s Neighborhood and the very first Sesame Streets, but does anyone still remember The Electric Company and the even more obscure Hodge-Podge Lodge on PBS? 
• Other obscure TV shows: 

• Moving On - that trucking show with Claude Aikens?  
• Salvage 1  - starring Andy Griffith who builds a spaceship from his junk yard?
• Archie’s Place - starring Carrol O’Conner as Archie Bunker after Edith died and had to raise his abandoned niece, Stephanie (who was Jewish, I believe)? 
• Isis - the live-action series like Shazam?  (I should see if there are links to the rest of those shows.  Maybe later.)

• Kung Fu - with David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine.  I loved this series.  (Actually, from what I can recall, it was a popular show for the time.  I’ve got more to say on this one, though)

Man, I didn’t intend for this to be TV-centric.  But if we are tweeners, weren’t we always?