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This relaxes me.

We all feel a little blue from time to time I’m declaring Tomorrow as #TangerineTuesday, where we continue to spread some marmalade loving warmth amongst one another- please reach out to one another 🐈🧡 #BrewMonday

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#nowplaying Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, “Let It Snow”

Quality time with Dad

Questioning consensus reality was all the rage amongst creators of ’80s zines but clearly none of them could predict how catastrophic this would be once it became mainstream.

Rick Moranis said that the SCTV cast did not want to become a Carol Burnett Show for kids. That’s all Saturday Night Live was. 6/6

I don’t miss Saturday Night Live, which peaked in its first or second year. It was really only ever “live” on a handful of occasions: Elvis Costello and The Attractions doing Jimi on Lulu, “The Claudine Longet Invitational” (for which they were forced to apologise), and “A Limo for a Lame-O”. 5/7

For local stations, infomercials became easier and more lucrative; lower-tier cable networks followed suit. Post-Conan talk shows just lacked the allure of the way the Paar Tonight Show was described as being continually on the verge of collapse, and that was before there were competing shows. 4/7

Never before or since has channel flipping been so rewarding. Even intentionally bad content like USA Up All Night had a shimmering quality, a kind of communal acknowledgement of bad performance being entertaining. In my mind it runs parallel to viewing Cleveland’s ’90s indie theatre scene. 3/7

SCTV, music videos on Akron’s ABC affiliate until 3 a.m. or later, Dennis Miller (post-SNL and pre-FSB), one-offs like The T.V. Show? Those days are gone. Late night was the first place I viewed an ITC Classic, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (under its US title My Partner the Ghost). 2/6

I’ve read that late night television is now in a state of contraction, which would dismay me if I could stay awake or if anything on air was enticing enough to stay awake for. 1/6

Hello, Bluesky.