HBO’s John Adams
Posted on January 9, 2012 by James RileyI’ve been re-watching HBO’s John Adams, along with the “making of” bonus material, and while it is true enough that I would be happy with just their wig budget, let alone their green screen and CGI budget, I can’t help but comment about the choices they made in their interpretation of the facts. (This is […]Continue Reading »
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I’ll Buy it or I’ll Rent it — Someday
Posted on January 6, 2012 by James RileyThere’s a “metric” out there I wish I knew but can’t seem to find on Google, perhaps because television production companies keep it a secret, but I guess I would call it the “delayed admission” revenue arc of a show. For example, the first season of the Andy Griffith Show, shot in 1960, can be […]Continue Reading »
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2012 Production
Posted on December 31, 2011 by James RileyThe year 2012, for me, if all goes well, will be something like the year 1771 for Silas Rhodes and his trusty band of freedom fighters. For those of you who know how cranky and dismissive I am about most modern media, I guess I have a surprising admission to make: there’s a lot […]Continue Reading »
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Slow it Down There, Mate
Posted on December 26, 2011 by James RileyA Quick Look at “America, the Story of Us” During that strange break in the Christmas season when you pretty much know that no one is returning phone calls, or email, and everyone has reconciled themselves to picking black olives out of the appetizer trays and coasting their way towards the celebration, we fired up “America, […]Continue Reading »
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Merry Christmas
Posted on December 24, 2011 by James RileyThe other night we tooled around Riverside’s Mission Inn for a dose of Christmas lights and Christmas Crowd and Christmas feasting. Fortunately, the new Air Jordan was not on sale anywhere nearby, so we had a relatively safe evening. I say “relatively safe,” because there’s something about shepherding 25-30 people (friends and friends’ […]Continue Reading »
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Courage, New Hampshire – The Major Events of 1771
Posted on December 22, 2011 by James RileyThe year 1771 broke upon New Hampshire with international rumors of a possible war with Spain and her ally, France, over the Falkland Islands. The British army and navy continued to have trouble with desertion and 40 shilling rewards were being posted for the return of British sailors to their ships. Governor Wentworth began cracking […]Continue Reading »
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It’s a Hot Day — Don’t Drink the Water!
Posted on December 22, 2011 by James RileyEditor’s Note: perhaps a student of medicine might tell us what was happening in the late New England summer of 1771. We’re thinking the water is getting a bum rap. Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette August 16, 1771 Boston, August 8, 1771: The extreme heat has continued longer this season than has ever […]Continue Reading »
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The Devil Went Down to Paris
Posted on December 22, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, August 2, 1771 The following odd, but true circumstance happened a few weeks ago at Paris.. Two gentlemen going to a masquerade, went to a place where habits are hired, in order to dress themselves; accordingly, one of them took it into his head to be dressed in resemblance […]Continue Reading »
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Colony News August 9, 1771
Posted on December 21, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, August 9, 1771 Those Pesky Frontiersmen The War against the Regulators (rebels) of North Carolina, and the disputes between Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and Connecticut Men on the frontier, prompted one Philadelphia writer to observe this about the people of frontier Colonial America: “..it is our opinion of folks in […]Continue Reading »
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