As friends and readers of brioux.tv may know, I’ve been collecting 16mm films for many years. Sixteen millimeter is the width of film shown on those large reels shown in classrooms in the 1960s and ’70s. Some boomers may remember this as “nap time.” I have around two thousand films in my collection, which, believe
Eb has gone to the big tractor in the sky. The last surviving regular cast member of the ’60s series Green Acres, Tom Lester, passed away Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 81, and had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Lester was best known for playing Eb Dawson on the series. He was the lanky
Podcaster Mike Boon, a.k.a. “Toronto Mike,” invited me back on his show Monday to “kick out the jams.” Mike, a fellow Michael Power grad, who, as he liked to point out, graduated from that high school many years after I did, invites all manner of media types over to his basement studio and quizzes us