A strong appetite, average palate, and weak writing, mixed with outdoor adventure.

A strong appetite, average palate, and weak writing, mixed with outdoor adventure.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Network Awesome

There are those moments when you are not sure the internet has anything left to offer. Like a restaurant with a menu that never changes you view the same cute cat videos and news sites with ennui replacing former zeal. And then your prayers for mindless escapism are answered…

It started with BoingBoing, which is an excellent time waster in and of itself, and then leapt to Network Awesome. As noted on the website, “Network Awesome is a platform for entertaining and interesting TV. We spotlight the best from the past to create something new for the future. In a sense it’s TV about TV but our wider intent is to show something about culture as a whole.”

To summarize above, it shows some fairly amusing old school TV footage. It is a retro junk food for the mind. While much of it is amusing, at least to me, the most shocking so far are the commercials by Jim Henson. Who knew that early muppets character would willingly act out violence upon one another?

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