things from the past

 

Under a You Tube video about "Murder, She Wrote" I found these Comments from viewers:

^^  I also love watching the passage of time through fashion and decor in this show.  The veering off into the early 90s, where the hair gets smaller but the colours get louder is great.

^^  Honestly watching murder she wrote makes me want lamps, typewriters and all these things from the past.  Just a certain charm to it.

^^  I getchu!  My roommate and I have both come to the decision that we want typewriters.

^^  Big mood.  I don't know if it's a midlife "stress and adulting are awful, I miss the carelessness of childhood and want to surround myself with its trappings," 

or 

just a disgust with how valueless and disposable everything is these days . . . maybe both.  

        But I too want robust lamps, and china cabinets full of "the good dishes," and solid appliances that you knew would last for decades, and when they did finally wear out, you could just fix the part and it'd be good as new again.  

        Grandfather clocks and quiet Sunday afternoons and those wooden things with three gauges in them (thermometer, hygrometer barometer) that you hang on the wall.  Yes pls.

^^  I ordered an old Ethan Allen furniture catalog from Amazon.  It's from the early 80s.  I sometimes just stare at the rooms.

^^  How about adding a giant floor globe to your list?

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Jackie-O hair

 A You Tuber talking about Bewitched said you can tell this situation comedy was made in the early 1960s because of Samantha's "Jackie-O hair."

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that kind of joy

 

------------------- [excerpt from Chris Matthews' biography of Robert Kennedy (not the current one, but his father)] ------------------------

        The problem for Bobby as he was taking his place in the U.S. Senate was that the challenge of these new responsibilities and duties wasn't enough to displace what James Stevenson, the New Yorker writer, observed to be his "resident, melancholy bleakness."  

        The black necktie he hadn't yet stopped wearing could be seen as a symbol of the unlifting darkness he felt in a city filled with such sharply etched memories.

        Adam Walinsky, his young legislative assistant, could sense the conviction Bobby seemed unable to dispel, that no matter what he did heading forward - "whether he got to be president or not . . . it had been the most fun before, when John Kennedy had been president, and that he would never be that young again that he would never have that kind of joy again."

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who - dunnit?

 

I watched Murder, She Wrote from when it first came on in 1984, I think.  After watching many episodes, I started to guess, or theorize, who did the crime.

A lot of times I was right.

I used to think to myself, 'I'm not doing this right, because I'm not going by clues and solid happenings in the story that lead me to say, OK, I believe that character did it.'...

        I just had a feeling, or a vibe, from some character, and I would think to myself, "That person did it."

I thought I shouldn't be going by just - Guessing.

But it seemed to - work!

Today I watched an episode of that show - or maybe it was one of the "Murder, She Wrote" TV movies that came out after the show was done - and when Jessica and a character played by Richard Crenna (the husband of Kathleen Turner's character in Body Heat) were talking, I kind of knew he was the one.  

And then - he was!

        I don't know.

        What can I say?

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a perplexing space

 

        On the way to work yesterday, passed a spot I've noticed many times before and sometimes wondered about. 

Lazy river on one side of the road, on the other side, a little hill with trees and underbrush - when you look at the hill, there's a lot of "stuff" up there.  Some of it, I don't know what it is - pieces of machinery, etc.  There's a sort of "wall," or part of a wall, which might be a piece of a building's foundation, it's a few feet high....

        I have gone past there many times over the years, and I never know what all that stuff is, or why it's there.  Yesterday I paid extra attention and noticed there's even a semi back there! - A truck and trailer, just parked.

I also took note of a tall building - might be three stories high, old-looking.  Is it abandoned?  Or might it be used for storage?

        At the top of the uphill part of the road, there are several businesses off to the right, and, thinking about that mysterious spot on the hill, in the trees, I realized that area is behind one of those businesses and maybe it's part of their property and that's their stuff back there.

I never thought that all the way through, before.

I would just notice the items on the hill, many of them unidentifiable, and briefly wonder. ...

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cats make the most of a moment

 Some people might remember the Nordic-Track, from the '90s.

An exercise machine.

Now there's one for cats:  the Nordic Beast.

It's a big wheel that your cat can run in - like a hamster wheel.

        I don't know if most cats want to run-in-place on something that moves.

        Looked on You Tube to see what people (and cats) thought of this product.

        People were saying, in the Comments,

"My cat likes it, now."

"My cat won't have anything to do with it."

"One of my cats uses it."

"I think my cat will like it."

        One guy had typed in, "I'm sure my cat would love . . . the box it comes in."

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his cellular phone

 Some other aspects to appreciate and enjoy when watching "Murder, She Wrote" include -

the styles of the era (1984 - 1996)...

interiors

hair and make-up

clothes

accessories (besides the scarves) - there's some big chunky jewelry that's kind of unforgettable

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        And a moment that can be savored now, is when Jessica reports that someone is "going to call him on his cellular phone."

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