The pleasures of PBS
Apr. 18th, 2009 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyHere's a brain breaker: wafting up from downstairs on volume high enough to enjoy without frightening the neighbors. The Clash Live: Revolution Rock on, get this, PBS! I wouldn't'a believed it if you'd predicted it in 1979.
Not a brain breaker except for the fact that it appears to have taken more than a decade to hit the airwaves: In the Footsteps Of Marco Polo. I stumbled on this one the other night - one of the joys of having cable is that there are several PBS affiliates that I have access to. (If only they were all grouped around the same channel number range for ease of schedule browsing!)Two "ordinary" guys get a wild hair up their respective keisters to recreate Polo's journey from Venice to China and back, and make it happen. Never mind the terrain, they had to get into and out of places like Iran, Afghanistan and so forth. This should be required viewing for the next mushbrain who exhorts me to "Live the Dream." Best quote: "Travel is the enemy of bigotry." Catch it if you can, it's marvelous.
Not a brain breaker except for the fact that it appears to have taken more than a decade to hit the airwaves: In the Footsteps Of Marco Polo. I stumbled on this one the other night - one of the joys of having cable is that there are several PBS affiliates that I have access to. (If only they were all grouped around the same channel number range for ease of schedule browsing!)Two "ordinary" guys get a wild hair up their respective keisters to recreate Polo's journey from Venice to China and back, and make it happen. Never mind the terrain, they had to get into and out of places like Iran, Afghanistan and so forth. This should be required viewing for the next mushbrain who exhorts me to "Live the Dream." Best quote: "Travel is the enemy of bigotry." Catch it if you can, it's marvelous.
