My People!
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:
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?
