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7888. Ms. No - 10/6/2005 6:12:40 PM It's not ringing any bells with me at all, but I wonder if there might not be a list somewhere of all the books ever read on Captain Kangaroo. It seems the sort of thing that would've been archived, right?
7889. Macnas - 10/6/2005 6:13:01 PM Where the Wild Things Are, my boy reads that!
How the hell do you remember all that Ms.No?
I'd hate to be the one you had a grudge agin, you'd never forget! 7890. Ms. No - 10/6/2005 6:20:44 PM I got a lit on an Amazon listmania, no taxi story, but there were others that I remembered when I saw the titles:
Harry the Dirty Dog and Millions of Cats in particular 7891. Ms. No - 10/6/2005 6:23:32 PM Mac,
I honestly don't know. I've always had a good memory and it doesn't seem to be dictated by what things were important or exciting at the time.
I mean, I remember days spent cleaning my room or something I made for a lunchbox or a paper cut I got or some strange thing. I remember dreams that I had --- sleeping dreams, not goal-type dreams.
Somewhere it must be good for something other than my own entertainment, but even if it's not I quite enjoy it. 7892. Ms. No - 10/6/2005 6:55:05 PM Jay,
Bob Keeshan put out a book called Books to Grow By that may or may not have a list of the books he read on his show. It does have suggestions for parents of what books to read for certain ages and to teach particular values or help deal with specific issues.
I don't think I'd buy it, but then again, it might make a good present for my Brother and Sil. I'll certainly check it out next time I'm at Barnes and Noble
7893. wonkers2 - 10/6/2005 10:32:55 PM Macnas, Ha! 7894. jayackroyd - 10/7/2005 12:54:34 AM For those following along at home in Foreign Countries, Bob Keeshan was the actor (and, I dunno, producer) who played Captain Kangaroo. He got his start on camera as a Howdy Doody character, a mute cow called Clarabell(? I think that's right).
He was a longstanding advocate for kids entertainment with heartwarming educational content. [Sigh] There's no way to type that that doesn't come across as smarmy or sarcastic.
His show featured reading good books to kids, running gags with Mr Moose and Bunny Rabbit (hand puppets) and his sidekick Mr Green Jeans. It was low key--the opening bit was his walking onto the set shaking keys on an enormous, hang-on-the-wall kind of ring to a whistled melody. There were some simple animated sequences ('Tom Terrific with Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog'). All in all, it was a very reassuring quietly amusing, experience that I, at least, loved.
7895. arkymalarky - 10/7/2005 2:41:14 AM Oh I'm loving this discussion. Brings back some great childhood morning memories. 7896. Macnas - 10/7/2005 9:41:05 AM We had a show, called Wanderly Wagon. I was aged ahead of it, as in a bit too old to watch it, but I still did, as did everyone else. It ran from the end of the 60's to sometimes in the 80's I think.
You have to know, television in those days did not start until 4.30pm or so, and went off the air before 12.oo. There was only one channel and whatever was on was all that was on.
There was a dog puppet character on it, called Judge, who thankfully is still around today. He is still my very favourite all time TV memory. The Lamberts, the family of puppeteers who were responsible, are still very active in the puppet theater.
 7897. Ulgine Barrows - 10/7/2005 10:09:47 AM You poor child, never having Dark Shadows. 7898. jayackroyd - 10/7/2005 1:04:22 PM TV for us came on at 6am and went off after the late movie on CBS. I still remember, verbatim, the CBS affiliate's sign-on, WGAN, owned by the Gannet family.
Three stations, one per network, plus PBS. The Captain was a morning show on CBS. There was an NBC show, Romper Room, directed at younger kids that came on, I think, after the late show. Seems to me that Romper Room had kids on it; a common kids show element of the time was audience participation in a segment. "Look Mom, I'm on TV." When I visited my grandmother in New Hampshire, we'd watch, on Saturday, out of Boston, Rex Trailer's Boomtown. This was a cowboy-themed show where there was a segment where kids marched past a camera, waving.
Chicago featured Bozo the Clown, which has similar elements, which I only know about from recounting of people from the area. There were local Bozos in other places, I believe.
At the end of the day, a guy named Lloyd Knight (he went to our church) played "Captain Lloyd," a seafarer who introduced movies and cartoons.
7899. thoughtful - 10/7/2005 3:51:27 PM I'm reading a book now...rather listening as i get books on tape out of the library...that is quite something. The Cruelest Miles. The true story of the outbreak of diphtheria in Nome Alaska in the 1920s and the dog sled relay to deliver the serum. The race was the inspiration for the iditarod. The story of the heart shown by the sled dogs and the raw guts and endurance by the mushers has brought tears to my eyes several times. It is an amazing story.
It is so much what we need today and so much what we don't have. Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
Some of the stories of the intelligence shown by the lead dogs are really unbelievable...make lassie look like a piker.
These guys are mushing through literally blinding blizzards...the snow freezes their eyelashes together and they can't see...the wind howls so loudly they can't hear. The trail obscured by snow, only the lead dog can find his way through scent to stay on the trail. In January in the pitch dark with only 4 hrs of sunlight a day. Temperatures 60 below. Wind speeds of 65 mph. Skin freezing solid with only 30 sec. of exposure to the air. Blood vessels in the dogs lungs bursting from the cold and they start drowning in their own blood, but continue to run until they literally collapse. Un-freakin'-believable.
If any of you have ever hiked, you will appreciate this...the team that did the longest run did a stretch of trail that required climbing 8 mountain ridges, ascending a total of 5000 feet...in the cold, in the dark, they averaged 8 mph...and that was after days of running to get to where they had to pick up the serum...hundreds of miles.
Un-freakin'-believable. 7900. wabbit - 10/7/2005 4:06:21 PM 
7901. thoughtful - 10/7/2005 6:04:35 PM thanks wabbit...that's bolto, just one of the dogs on the trail. 7902. wonkers2 - 10/9/2005 11:46:53 PM Anybody else read Joan Didion's piece in the NYT Magazine last week about her husband's sudden death? It was vivid enough to make you feel you were there when he was stricken, at the hospital and later. But ever since "Play it as it Lays" I've had reservations about Didion which I can't put my finger on. Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else? Robert Pinsky, the reviewer of her new book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," couldn't say enough nice things about the book and about Didion. Maybe it's her support of Goldwater in '64 or beginning her career at the National Review or her take on Schaivo that put me off. Any Didion fans out there?
She does have a clever way with words, but I'm not sure I agree with what they add up to.??? 7903. Macnas - 10/11/2005 11:20:42 AM Our own John Banville wins the Booker prize this year, with his book "The Sea".
7904. Magoseph - 10/11/2005 12:41:49 PM Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else?
I didn’t find the style precious in "Play as it Lays" and I thought the language was rather more literal than figural. 7905. Magoseph - 10/11/2005 12:43:57 PM Again:
Is it that her style's a bit too precious or that she tries too hard to be contrarian or something else?
I didn’t find the style precious in "Play as it Lays" and I thought the language was rather more literal than figural. 7906. alistairconnor - 10/11/2005 12:56:16 PM Once more with feeling? 7907. PelleNilsson - 10/13/2005 3:40:03 PM The Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Harold Pinter. A good choice, in my opinion.
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