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Bringing Up Baby
Director Howard Hawks’ 1938 screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby,” starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, is quite possibly the quintessential take on the genre. Added to the National Film Registry in 1990, it’s often cited on lists of the best and funniest movies ever made. “Bringing Up Baby” has made its HD debut in a […]
Tim Simpson
Church and State
Nowhere in the constitution are the words “Separation of church and state.” exist Today’s America has come under attack from all different direction. From the media, to special interest groups and everyone is clamoring to figure where America fits into the world. And in reality it doesn’t nor is it supposed to we were created […]
Social Sentiments
It’s OK To Post The Same Content Across All Channels!
Posting the same content across all social media platforms has been a contested issue. Each social media platform has a different format, so each platform needs a different set of content, right? The advantage of posting the same content across all platforms is reaching different audiences. Your Facebook page may have a different audience than […]
Pop Life
The House of Flowers
This week I decided to go international and talk about the current film “The House of Flowers”, based on the Mexican black comedy-drama television series which aired from 2018 to 2020. The show followed a dysfunctional upper-class family who own a prestigious floristry shop and a struggling cabaret, both of which are called The House […]
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Supertrain
Something that we, as a society, often overlook is that YouTube, the website that makes stars out of people talking in their bedrooms, is one of the finest archives for television. Countless hours of obscure, rare, and what would otherwise have been lost to time material is on the service. From soap operas to commercials, […]
Tim Simpson
Freiberg’s on E Main Street
How about a review of, drum roll here… Freiberg’s on E Main Street in Johnson City. First let me begin by saying I have shied away from this particular restaurant for a long time. For years I had heard friends speak of it but I, well I admit I do not like cabbage. I can’t […]
Social Sentiments
Shared Snippets
Sharing smaller pieces of content to engage your audience is beneficial in a world where attention spans have shortened. Twitter brands itself on short, attention grabbing conversations. Messages across all platforms that follow this format will be fully received by your audience instead of glanced over. Posts with 80 characters or less perform better than […]
Pop Life
In the Heights
I have always been a fan of musicals and my favorite classic movie musical would be “The Sound of Music” and my favorite modern movie musical is “Hairspray”. 2021 brings a new musical for our enjoyment, in the form of “In the Heights”. The film is based on the stage musical of the same name, […]
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The Pits
There’s a lot of random things burned into the deep recesses of my mind. A bunch of it stems from watching too much TV as a kid. There was a time in the mid-’90s when I was fascinated by infomercials. Those half-hour ads for various wonder products that once were used to fill many a […]
Tim Simpson
The Raven
“But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered- not a feather then he fluttered- Till I scarcely more than muttered, “other friends have flown Before- On the morrow he will leave me, as […]
