Ad for Psycho, 1967.
Tag: tv
[TV] has to be joyful, effortless, fun. TV defeats its own purpose when it has its own agenda or is trying to defeat other TV or being proud of ashamed of itself for existing. It’s TV. It’s comfort. It’s a friend you’ve known so well, and for so long, you just let it be with you. And it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day, or phone in a day. And it needs to be okay to get on a boat with LeVar Burton and never come back, because eventually, it all will.
Abed Nadir, Community – “The Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television”
My Third Parent on another planet.
Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser/ Magnavox Computer Color 330 1980s. Magazine page found at Really Really Free Market.
This Magnavox looks like it could be the one we had for all of the 80s. I had a small black and white portable in the second half of the decade, in my room, but this is the one that sat in the living room for us all to share. Seems very familiar. My Third Parent, indeed.
Happy Valentine’s Day, tumble-pumpkins!
Early 1950s children’s valentine.
Yep! Television’s here to stay—It’s quite COLOSSAL I would say—It’s MARVELOUS what it can do—It’s WONDERFUL—and so are YOU!
My Third Parent 