Guilt

Here’s a short list of some of the stuff that I hope has reached maximum exposure.....Ya’ know--things I’ve simply had enough of: Shaved Heads Goatees Flat-Brimmed Baseball Caps Tattoos*  Talking Heads on News Programs Flip-Flops Worn Anywhere Other Than Swimming Or The Beach Excessive Body Piercings** Television Commercials For Anything Related To Medicine Or Lawyers American Idol Baggy Shorts “Wild Cards” In Professional Sports *I’m OK with tattoos on any military veteran and any member, current or past, of that traveling freak show known as the NBA **If I toss a handful of refrigerator magnets at you and they stick anywhere other than your ears, it’s excessive

Movie Notes from the Rust Belt..... Youngstown, Ohio Just finished watching The Angry Red Planet, a 1959 Sci-Fi epic, courtesy of Netflix .  50s Sci-Fi is one of my favorite pastimes, and this one lands near the top of the heap. There’s not a heckuva lot of plot to get in the way of the story here.  Mission to Mars.  Monsters on Mars who kill one of the crew.  In an interesting twist on the monster types, we have a giant one-celled creature that absorbs one of the crew in ghastly detail--nothing like you’d see now, of course, but still.....I mean, for Pete’s sake, he was ABSORBED!!  The male lead and the female lead manage to get home in their spacecraft to tell their story, which consists of a warning to keep away from Mars because, well, humans are so war-like and all. You got your square-jawed all-American hero leading the crew--A Humphrey Bogart look-alike named Gerald Mohr, who worked in the movies and TV steadily from the late 30s through is earl...

Here’s the deal.....I’m an usher at the church I attend.  That would be St. John's Episcopal in Youngstown Ohio.  I belong to the men’s group.  My bride can be counted on to assist every time she is asked.  I don’t always agree with Episcopal dogma, but the people seem pretty nice, and the church itself is magnificent. Last Sunday at the 8AM service, a man burst into the service--he was running from Youngstown police officers, who were pursuing him due to him having just burglarized another church.  At least that’s what it seems like based on the account in local media. When he burst in, he asked for sanctuary.  And our pastor, Bradley Pace, agreed.  It’s a little hazy as to whether the police officers were allowed to enter the church or not, but after the service, the thief was arrested.  Oh, yes, he resisted.  Oh, yes, his resistance was overcome. Why the police failed to arrest the pastor for interfering with police officers I cannot ...

Movie Notes From The Rust Belt Youngstown, Ohio I may have mentioned that I watch a TV channel called “PubDHub”.  Never heard of it you say?  Well, it’s one of the channels offered on my ROKU streaming media device.  OK, truth be told I have multiple ROKU devices on my HD televisions.  Lotsa good stuff on there, but what I’m here to talk about is PubDHub.  OK.....PubDHub is Public Domain Stuff--get it?  Pub is Public and D is Domain and Hub is, um, the hub.  You can have regular PubDHub for no extra charge or you can go for  Gold PubDHub for a paltry $2.50 a year.   I’m a Gold guy.  That means that I get extra stuff.  But the regular PubDHub is pretty cool too. I told you that so I could tell you this: I watched a 1975 movie on PubDHub today.  That’s pretty new by PubDHub standards, but I like the 70s stuff.  Title of the movie was “Slashed Dreams”.  Later, I found out that it was originally released as “Sunb...

While you can always get here by typing in "jimyoungtheguiltyone.blogspot.com", you can now also get here by typing in "jim-young.net". Have I dated myself by using the word "typing"?  Just wondering.

It’s all I can do to watch Ryan Braun play baseball.  Look, it simply was not necessary for Major League Baseball to destroy Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, but they did.  Seem to be proud of it too.  The true situation with performance enhancing drugs at that time of history was that it was going away of it’s own volition, and public pressure--the same way that the “greenies” of the 60‘s and 70‘s went away. But if they are going to go after Bonds and Roger the Rocket, then they need to hammer Braun with the same eagerness and ferocity. Major League Baseball under Bud Selig should be ashamed of itself for this and other malfeasance.

Dear Netflix: In the beginning, TV Land was a good idea too.  You know, old programs from the “Golden Age” of television--programs like The Honeymooners, and classic TV commercials.  Aimed, I suppose, at me and mine--aging baby boomers.  TV Land is now just another junk cable station with infomercials and endless re-runs of not quite classic TV programs.  Idiocy like Extreme Makover, Roseanne, and as an added bonus, real crapfests like High School Reunion and She’s Got The Look.   I get it.  The target audience is no longer me, but rather Generation X, or something like that.  MTV owns TV Land, and they completely MTV’d it.  (As a side note, I usually spell out "Empty Vee" when I refer to that TV channel). The crux of this open letter is this:  I see that Netflix is now offering an original program called Lilyhammer, set in Norway with a gangster theme--sounds sort of like a Sopranos spin-off.   Fine.  I also understand tha...