Twilight Zone---The Original Series

One of the good things about a long weekend is I can usually TIVO a few episodes of the original Twilight Zone of the Scyfy channel. This show is almost always well worth watching. Today I watched an episode about an old man who loved his grandfather clock and felt that if it stopped he would die as it had been given to him at his birth. Many famous actors and actresses appeared in Twilight Zone episodes and some of these are top notch.

The most famous is probably the one of the campiest, the William Shatner episode where he sees an alien being on the wings of an airplane. Surely it is campy, silly even, and by todays standards not even close to realistic, if such a thing can be but it is something you remember.

Not many TV shows can say that. Give me this show and Alfred Hitchcock presents and I can easily while away sometime in front of the black and white screen.

Thank you Rod Serling

Sh*t My Dad Says by Mark Halperin

Picked this little book up at the library. A funny little book telling about a man's relationship with his father. The Dad a specialist in nuclear medicine has a way of speaking...brutally honest and a bit vulgar, which make his observations comical and in some cases quite appropriate.

It takes less than an hour to read and there are a few chuckles inside. It is also being made into a sitcom this fall starring William Shatner which promises to be funny.