 as far as I can tell, this is an example of  a total AI video.  the song, the singers, the cars, the town are all artificial intelligence’s conception of a  typical ’50s video
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April 23, 2026
 as far as I can tell, this is an example of  a total AI video.  the song, the singers, the cars, the town are all artificial intelligence’s conception of a  typical ’50s video
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Today’s dog haiku:
I love my human;
Thus I perfume myself with
This long-dead squirrel.
Chesley Bonestell
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It must be a photo taken on set during a break from
I didn’t recognize him either, but search says
He could just as well be Professor Irwin Corey.
Or anybody.
He was in a lot of movies, but Wikipedia says he’s largely forgotten.
I recognize the name, but don’t recall him otherwise.
He had his own TV show in the 60s, ‘Harbor Command’ lasted about two seasons, I think.
anyway, in this movie, he played the skeptical cop and had a substantial speaking role
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Yes…I bought a red rover wagon for my old boy when he became too arthritic and couldn’t walk more than a step or two. If he stood up, and it was a windy day, he sometimes was blown over. He indicated when he wanted to get out of the wagon to do his business. He was happiest as I took him all over his favorite paths. The excitement when he met doggie and human friends! The wagon is in my garage.
I just carried mine. He was about 30 pounds. He could handle walking a few feet on level ground, but couldn’t do the dog door or the ramp. (I’d put a 20′ long ramp off the back porch because the stairs were too hard on basset backs.)
Kudos for getting an arrangement the guy was happy with!
So sad….
And so loving.
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Very unusual to see a list like this in which I’ve actually seen five of the ten films, and remember six of the lines.
Usually I’ve seen 20%, or the lines somebody thought were memorable actually weren’t.
Yes, I do remember a line from a film I’ve not seen, because everybody knows “Here’s Johnny!”
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Orange Kitty’s ride is very cool… But I want to know why Black Kitty appears to be wearing a label band, like a bottle of Coke.
A very strange household indeed…
A promotional video for KTC; the Kitty Transport Company.
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I saw this about the time it first was released and it scared the bejeesus out of me .. my first ever horror movie.
Your first will always stay with you. Mine was “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”. I think my kids’ must have been Arachnophobia.
The way you were talking about age the other day, that first film must have been about 1906 or so, right? {^¿^}
Well, I can’t remember my first, because we saw so many at the Saturday kiddie matinee.
Mostly old, black and white ones, probably from the 40s, maybe before.
Lotta sequels, some straight space operas, some horror… Lots of overlap.
Some of the plots are mixed up in my mind, and I just don’t remember the order of them all.
Other weeks there might be westerns or comedies… Usually a double feature, occasionally two separate genres… With a Buck Rogers serial in between.
Not as memorable as the splashy 50s color ones. Those we saw with our parents.
And yeah… When we all went out together in the evening, we rode the family dinosaur.
Me too….mainly since I was the same age as the kid
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The road helped as a fire break around much of it..
We had a number of oddities like this a few years ago when the local valley burned. One house standing, total destruction all around. My uncle had two houses near each other, one was burned to the ground, the other left standing, untouched. Every other house in that stretch of the river was gone. Fire doesn’t have any rules to play by.
I have a friend who lives up a big hill or small mountain from Paradise, California, which is north of Chico.
One of the biggest fires in California history, in 2018, destroyed most of Paradise and burned its way uphill…
They were evacuated, along with thousands of others, and couldn’t drive on those highways, or see or check on their house for weeks.
When they finally could go back, they and their neighbors discovered a similar situation. Every other house along their road… one almost untouched and the next completely gone. They lucked out… I think they lost a tree and a shed, but their house was fine. They have no idea why.
For months, they had no water and no electricity, and had to take mountainous back roads a long distance to buy groceries and pick up mail that couldn’t be delivered…. But their house was saved.
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Use it or lose it.
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It was a froggy day in the jungle.
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Well, somebody’s gotta post impressionism.
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Kids play this game??
Oh dang, it’s only a game? 🙂
I kinda like the Garfield (?) puppet stuck on the inside of the windshield. Every time she hits a biker, it looks as though she gets a new Garfield.
She’s just racking up those points!
This is kinda horrifying. 🤣
find the owl
AFAIK, it’s hard to see, and maybe a little vague… but it’s there.
It’s actually the owl’s nest, or at least, the owl is looking out from it.
I noticed that right off too, but then decided it did not look sufficiently owl-like.
I thought that too, but since there’s no other owl that I could see, and when I enlarged it,
I decided it was probably what we were meant to find.
Looks better zoomed in on the big screen.
Some day I’ll have a bigger screen again….
You mean to say an owl’s lost in the forest? How can this happen?
Whew!
Believe it or not Captain Kirk is 95 years old and is going to release another album this fall.
Before you decide to buy it you might want to hear an earlier recording of his.
Before you decide to buy it, you might want to consider cutting down on your drinking and dope-smoking, and think about getting professional help.
I believe it’s never too late to get control of your life, and learn to make rational decisions.
Let’s face it. If you bought the first one and you’re still around, you’re going to buy this one.
I own the CD “Spaced Out” – and Leonard Nimoy could sing!
Opening the hatch on Artemis II’s Orion capsule
Don’t forget ctrl +
I watched a network news video of this, I think about 8 minutes long, on YouTube. They didn’t have anybody taking close-up film or video like this; it was all footage from a helicopter camera.
They did keep filming till all 4 astronauts were out, all safely sitting on the orange float they’re calling the front porch, and waiting for the helicopters to take them to the big ship standing by, where they’ll be given medical tests, and cleared for their return (airplane!) flight to Houston.
Besides watching this amazing feat, what also struck me was the absolute idiocy in some of the comment section. It was overrun with people claiming the space program was fake, AI generated, and impossible. One person “saw” a green screen, another one knew somebody who knew somebody who knew it wasnt real. Most were mocking or insulting other commenters, the “fools” who “believed” in it.
We watched the astronauts climb out of the capsule… they commented that no one had emerged. And why didn’t NASA have waist cameras, or a big ship waiting right next to the teeny floating capsule? They said the video was from a helicopter just so no one could tell the astronauts weren’t real.
It made me sad! And embarrassed for the US, to have the world think we’re imbeciles.
The US certainly doesn’t have a lock on imbeciles. But at least we can say things like that without getting arrested, so that’s in our favor.
” .. to have the world think we’re imbeciles.” That ship has already sailed.
Computer store, 1984.
The first computer store I ever went to was in the late 1970s, in San Francisco… It started out a calculator store, so it was called Mr. Calculator.
They started getting a few computers, notably the first version of the Commodore PET, which used your TV for a monitor, and cost $2,000.
AFAIK, as long as it was open, they never changed the name.
Quite possibly just a Radio Shack store, with the computers set for display in the windows. A real computer store would have had items manufactured by multiple brands, not all one brand like these are. Although it is possible in the larger cities that Radio Shack might have had stores dedicated to just their computer line. The small towns I lived in, they were all together in the same store.
It’s also interesting that they have three generations of the TRS-80 on display (left to right – Models 3, 4, and 2).
Grey Partridge.
It’s looking for a pear tree.
Or the family…
That AI video is scary.
I looked at it on YouTube to see the comments…
People were loving it, many apparently not noticing the AI and not spooked by the uncanny valley aspects of it.
It’s obviously AI… The street scenes are weird, with cars, people and bicycles all in the middle of the road, cars suddenly zooming out of parking spaces, but nobody seen getting into them first, and then veering into the wrong lane.
Stores have odd signs, the teenagers are all perfectly alike. But I couldn’t find any notice of artificial content, which is a YouTube rule.
There are two words which I can’t read above the Croation word “spome” which Google translate says means “memories.”
I doubt a 1950’s small-town-America would have a Croation delicatessen or grocery store.
I wouldn’t take that one word too seriously. The next sign says “Sate” with a curiously tiny “e”.
There are several made-up words on signage, a few containing letters that don’t exist. I think they’re random-generated by AI, and one might accidentally be the same as a Croation word.
There’s a black sign with neon letters, or maybe an LED clock, though they didn’t exist in the 50s, behind the soda fountain. I thought it had the time, but some of the zeros are Ds, and it’s meaningless. The movie marquee has random, scattered letters.
When a teenage boy starts running in place, as the beginning of a dance, or meets up with a girl and they shake hands…. I’m not buying that the AI has a clue.