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Week’s end wrap-up, August 10 2006

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Things have been pretty serious on the Roadmap lately,  so I thought I’d wrap up the week with some lighter topics.

Starting with my favorite post-BlogHer post: My Thoughts on BlogHer 06 by  Millie Garfield (Thoroughly Modern Millie/My Mom’s Blog). I wish everyone could take as much joy out of life as Millie clearly does.

We have a hummingbird in the garden. This may not seem like much to many of you, but with 4 dogs and 3 cats, birds have been known to view our yard with some suspicion. We had a hummer a couple of years ago, so I started putting out hummer food, but this week was the first time I had seen one since that first sighting in 2004. They are the most amazing birds. I will try to get a picture, although I doubt I’ll be able to capture it.

Instead, I will share a photo of a Rufous Hummingbird  taken by my cousin, who is an absolutely amazing bird photographer. This photo appeared on the cover of a bird magazine (name of which escapes me.)


photo copyright Thomas Johnson

I’m off tomorrow, and won’t be online again until late Sunday, so I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

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Wayback Machine: Remington Steele

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For a complete departure from our usual marketing and PR topics, today I invite you to step into the Wayback Machine with me, and take a little trip to 80s television.

To Los Angeles and "Remington Steele."

Last weekend, we were in Best Buy picking up some gear for our podcast rig (yes, you read that right, more later this summer once I have time to get everything sorted) and I saw the DVDs of the first 3 seasons of the series on sale for 1/2 price. Of course this is a gambit to build new viewers for the last 2 seasons (out on DVD in August) but who cares. I was a big fan of the series during its original run, so all three DVDs made their way into the shopping cart.

And my friends, I am hooked all over again. I had forgotten just how good it was. Sure the hairstyles and clothes are a little dated. Everyone isn’t walking around with things stuck in their ears talking (presumably)on the phone but looking like nothing so much as "Crazy Eddie" talking to the Invisible Man.  Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist have pretty classic styles. Since they have the lion’s share of the screen time, 80s big hair and knit ties on the secondary characters don’t bug  me that much.

And the stories themselves hold up pretty well, all things considered. The plots rely more on smarts and the flirtation between the two leads than they do on high tech gadgetry so we don’t have to laugh too much at "technology."  All in all, Remington Steele is  pretty good screwball romantic comedy with a dash of detective.  As I recall, it wasn’t as good in later years, when the stars reportedly weren’t too fond of each other, as in the beginning, which is what I am watching now, but it is still better than most. I’m sure enjoying it a heckuva a lot more than the dreck on TV these days.

But if you’d rather pass the time with a cheesy 80s star, I direct you to David Hasselhoff’s music videos on YouTube. As I commented this morning on Andrea Weckerle’s blog, Hasslehoff just might be living proof that Botox causes brain rot. Or something. Anyway, check out the videos (hat tip to Andrea for reminding me about them in her post today).

And finally stepping out of the Wayback Machine, but still in TV-land, don’t miss the French TV commercial for Canal Plus (hat tip to Sandy for this one).

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It’s all in the name…

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Brangelina really should have consulted somebody on the name for their newborn daughter. Bad enough that they used the masculine form Nouvel, versus the feminine Nouvelle, but the blogosphere has coined a nickname for poor Shiloh-Nouvel Jolie-Pitt —  Shovel.

It would be awful if it weren’t so funny, n’est-ce pas?

(from CityRag, via Fashiontribes)

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