Sunday, January 20, 2008

Little obsessions come to rest, right here.


HA!, indeed. Do you know that practically nowhere on the internet do you find reference to the defunct First TV Comedy Network? This guy, Fred Siebert, has probably the most extensive reference to HA! that I have seen since the last "Love American Style" episode ran, in the '90s. (As you can see, I have borrowed his picture, for non-commercial purposes.) HA! was the best. The bitter merger that led them to join with HBO's Comedy Channel and become Comedy Central was no laughing matter... not in the least.

Another one of the innumerable nerdy things I love is Mathnet, and I cruised YouTube today to find some episodes. Lo, some friendly fanboy had put a couple on there, but it's mostly fragments. Why, I wonder, isn't everything available on the internet? Seems like it should be, by now.


That short segment was from a show called Square One, which I watched every schoolday as a child. It was a math show produced by the Children's Television Workshop. The show also featured the head-sticky songs "Archimedes", and the electrifying "Angle Dance," which concerned the measurement of angles. And is hilarious. Dance On!

The quandary that led me to explore these public television shows today had to do with the image I can never get out of my head: the set of "Read All About It," which was a TVOntario show dedicated to reading. It was so freaky-- lots of people who see it say that they were scared to death by it. The show featured an evil silver-painted villain named Duneedun. Scaresville. Here's the first episode. So scary! Eep!


(OMG, also check out OTV's Prisoners of Gravity intro!
haha-- looks like an awesome show! I'm watchin' it!)

This guy, Broszkowski, appears to have dedicated his life to TVO shows, and to the publishing of live Pixies clips! Plus, he has this photo of Feist, which I think is great:

What a Bro! (...szkowski)