ESPN360.com World Cup, Stoppage, and Instant Replay
Just when it seemed hopeless to hear an English language broadcast of the World Cup, I heard a mention on ABC of their other network's website's coverage on http://espn360.com. I had been watching the...
View ArticleYou'll be a LIMBO star... how low can you go?
Did anyone see the article about the little Indian girl (Gwalior, India) who skated under 40 cars with only 8 or so inches of clearance? I kept trying to find a place where the video was clearer, but...
View ArticleFree Internet TV Cable World Series Repeats ABC CBS NBC Fox ESPN Asia Chinese...
Last night we watched Sketches of Frank Gehry (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446784/), a nice little documentary about the architect who designed the Guggenheim in Bilbao, among many other twisted...
View ArticleTV Weather Men and Weather Women and Global Dumbing
Finally someone said it in print. I don't claim to know the truth about anything, but I know how I feel, sometimes. Recalling the movies, Network and Broadcast News and after recent viewings of An...
View ArticleFrom Skatetown USA 1979 to Bold and Beautiful Brooke and Hunter Tylo's Trout...
OK you know I love connections, but this is ridiculous. I didn't know there was a skate connection here. I just happened to run across The Bold and the Beautiful on my way across channels, looking for...
View ArticleInline Skaters (Rollerbladers) Roll Through Art Museum in ABC Series
This Thursday night "The Traveler" rolls out with rollerblading (inline skating) pranks involving three kids skating through an art museum. This reminds me of Bertolucci's The Dreamers, which contains...
View ArticleTour de France 2007 Streaming Video Free TV & Heart Rate Monitoring
For those who don't have cable television but do have high-speed internet, here are some links that may (or may not) work for you to watch some worldwide television. Currently, of course, this is of...
View ArticleInline Skaters Get Great Tour de France TV Coverage and Comments
Just a quick note to say that on today's stage of the Tour de France, some inline skaters made the video coverage and were even commented upon favorably by Phil Liggett (and maybe by Paul Sherwen too)....
View ArticleTransformers Movie Spoofs Speed Skating Citroen C4 Ad
At my son's urging, we finally watched the Transformers movie last night. At about 1 hour 50 we were treated to Transformer 'Bumblebee' speed skating down a highway. This is the clip they showed on the...
View ArticleOpen Letter to UNC-TV Regarding Over-the-Air UNC-KD UNC-ED Public Television...
I watch free TV, meaning I have an antenna (up in the attic no less, as I'm not sure I want to attract lightning, deal with installation woes, and risk the oak trees damaging the antenna when limbs...
View ArticleWhere Do Those TSA and Other Security Confiscated Pen Knives, Manicure...
I bet you've had a skate tool taken now and then at airport security, right? I did. I had a somewhat sentimental first edition roadskater.net (home-branded) long handle Allen wrench taken when I...
View ArticleOne Last Night of Analog Television with the 1987 Sony Watchman FD-10A as...
As June 12, 2009 rolls in, I'm enjoying the last chance to watch a very little analog TV on the Sony watchman. This black-and-white gem of electronics was made in Japan in April 1987 (no wimply...
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