Scandalous

Tony Platt's The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley is an interesting read.  Much of the material is familiar, but the book does root Phoebe Apperson Hearst's inveterate collecting of physical artifacts, including lots and lots of human remains, and the consequent need to display and store them at the heart of the university's problems.  It's similar to how her social and philanthropic rival Jane Stanford's morbid obsession with her dead relations was the original intended focus of the junior university on her farm.  Then again, no one repeatedly tried and ultimately succeeded in gruesomely killing Hearst with rat poison. 

"Eight Is Enough" S2:E7 The Bard and the Bod

I vaguely recall when some shampoos had beer in them (an internet search shows that there was a Body on Tap brand in the late '70s), but in this episode Nancy (the pretty Bradford daughter) is rehearsing lines with her sister for a play in which Joanie will appear nude.  Nancy then proceeds to crack open a can of beer and casually pours it over her head over the kitchen sink.  Was this a real thing?  

Bjorn Again

It wasn't until it came up about a year on Pandora that I realized that the "2 Broke Girls' theme was a) an actual song and b) by those Scandinavian guys with the whistling song.

First Wednesdays

The guy in DC Lottery's ubiquitous First Wednesdays ads kind of looks and acts like Chicago/Howard College Bowl legend John Edwards.

"Let's Play the Scene!"

I happened to notice James Karen as the LA newscast director on "The China Syndrome" this morning.  I always enjoy seeing him on "Eight Is Enough" as Sacramento newspaper editor Elliot Randolph.  The character has a certain smarmy WASP charm to him.  It's similar to his past-his-prime movie director Wally Bruce auditioning ingenue Naomi Watts for a role in "Mulholland Drive."