tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73075777176553109182024-03-17T07:25:56.526-04:00Thrilling Days of Yesteryear"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..." -- Peter DeVriesIvan G Shreve Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comBlogger82313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-73538638279380406412017-09-30T21:30:00.000-04:002017-09-30T21:30:11.057-04:00Who’ll turn out the lights (in your world tonight)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow
(October 1), <i>Thrilling Days of Yesteryear</i>
will officially move to its <a href="http://www.thrillingdaysofyesteryear.wordpress.com/">new home</a> at
WordPress. If you make it a point to
stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a
bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts
both old and new have already settled in and made themselves comfortable by
calling dibs on the bunks.</div>
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Since switching from Salon Blogs (a venture that, in
retrospect, I regret…because I have nothing to show for it, unless I want to
fire up archive.org’s Wayback Machine) to Blogspot nearly a decade ago, I have
to say things were pretty swell here.
Oh, occasionally there would be a minor problem to iron out but such
inconveniences were few and far between.
To be completely honest, except for the Herculean task of transferring
the content from old to new blogs, I’ve really been impressed with the look of
the new WordPress <i>TDOY</i>. I like the big pictures that start off each
post, something that I have developed an infinity for since I started penning
the Radio Spirits blog in May of 2012.
You’ll find that more than a few “classic” <i>TDOY</i> posts have spiffy new presentations in pictures; that’s what I
have been enjoying about the transfer the most.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During my stay here at Blogspot, I racked up over 3,000
posts. A large percentage of those…well,
I never was all that good at math but let’s just say a buttload of them were “meat
by-product.” I posted a lot of personal
rants, comic strips, and political cartoons back in those days…and they have
not aged at all well, so I vetoed bringing them over to WordPress. They have been released into the wilds of the
blogosphere or taken upstate to romp around on someone’s farm (unless the material
I posted had some relevance afterward in the post). I’ve also erased many of the TV-coming-to-DVD
announcements, <i>Coming Distractions</i>,
and notifications of movies/TV shows on sale because, again, all of that was in
the past and it’s not going to do anyone any good now (I’m betting a lot of
that stuff has expired). What’s past isn’t
always prologue, I suppose.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll be leaving a few items at the old Blogspot apartment
for a while until I can figure out how I want to work them into the WordPress
environs, namely the serials I did for <b><i>Serial Saturdays</i></b> and two of the blog’s
signature features, <b><i>Mayberry Mondays</i></b> and <b><i>Doris Day(s)</i></b>. In the case of <b><i>Mayberry</i></b>, I’d like to go
back and do some new screen grabs for the first season episodes seeing as I
still have Season 1 of <b><i>Mayberry</i></b> <b><i>R.F.D.</i></b> on DVD. (I want to go back and do screen caps for
some of the older serials, too.) So, if
you get an <b><i>R.F.D.</i></b> jones, you’ll need to use the key I’m leaving under the
mat…if you get a Google Chrome message that reads “Don’t play in that old house
or you’ll put your eye out” I don’t know what to tell you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the WordPress blog…well, there’ll be a change or two in
the works. For a time now, I’ve set
aside days for certain features: <i>Overlooked
Films on Tuesdays</i>, <i>B-Western
Wednesdays</i>, silent movies on Thursdays, etc. I think that with the exception of <i>Overlooked Films </i>the new <i>TDOY</i> policy will be “I’ll-write-about-this-movie-whenever-I-darn-well-please.” I’m really hoping to boost the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly
content of <i>TDOY</i> once I get settled in,
and if I’m not tied into a whole “Gee, I’d like to post something about this
film but it’s out-of-sync with what usually goes here” thing it’ll work out for
me so much better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With all that out of the way, let me step inside the
confessional and own up to this: the post I had planned for Monday is going to
be postponed for a day or two because I’m still making my way through the
material; I didn’t get a doggone thing accomplished after Tuesday of last week
due to deadlines for other projects and outside irritations. I’m really going to get better at a regular
posting schedule, so if you’ll just hand me my ten Hail Marys I’ll be out of
your hair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks for making the Blogspot <i>Thrilling Days of Yesteryear</i> one of your usual haunts…and I hope
you’ll do the same for our <a href="http://www.thrillingdaysofyesteryear.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">new home at WordPress</a>. If you haven’t updated our new address on your
blogroll, please do so as a solid to me.<br />
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Ivan G Shreve Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-21325869601284932452017-09-15T13:38:00.003-04:002017-09-15T13:39:11.242-04:00Holding pattern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since I’m at the halfway point before <i>Thrilling Days of Yesteryear </i>makes its official move to the
<a href="http://www.thrillingdaysofyesteryear.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">brand-spanking-new WordPress blog</a> in October, I thought I’d post this to let
you know why <i>TDOY</i> went silent this
week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had planned to have a few reviews up but the post I penciled
in for Monday got pushed to the side due to a Radio Spirits liner notes project
I was trying to complete. That activity
took place all weekend, the time I utilize to plan what will go up on the blog
for the week. With my RS assignment
completed, I had to further postpone posts because of that Irma thing (we were
a lot luckier than some of our fellow Georgians in that our electricity didn’t
go on vacation during the storm…but it did come and go a few times, interfering
with the movie I was trying to watch) …and then a pair of doctor appointments
(for the patriarch of Rancho Yesteryear, <i>mi padre</i>) ate up some more time. I finally said ta heck wid it and vowed to
get back to the blogging thing Monday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little
hammering-and-nailing at the new site; there are close to 300 classic <i>TDOY</i> posts up there now, some with new
photos added and a few tweaks and edits here and there. I’ve also been doing a little pruning here at
the old blog; I’ve made some editorial decisions about what to transfer and
what to destroy—so if it looks as if the old blog has lost a little weight that’s
the reason. It’s simply going to be too
Herculean a task to transfer <i>everything</i> to the new site, and some past posts
will have to sit in the waiting room (most appropriate in light of the medical
appointments this week) while others will simply vanish into the blogosphere,
accessible only for those patient to sift through archive.org.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So that’s how things stand—come back by next week and I’ll have a
thing or two to bend your ear about.
Have a great weekend, cartooners!<br />
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Ivan G Shreve Jrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307577717655310918.post-34428677885136057792017-08-17T07:00:00.000-04:002017-08-17T07:00:45.751-04:00Please permit us to pause…<div class="MsoNormal">
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I really hate to put the brakes on the ol’ blog while I was
going great guns (more or less), but it’s going to be silent for the rest of
the week. My sister Kat is in town, and
she brought along with her my favorite nephew…who’ll be occupying much of my free time here at Rancho Yesteryear.
(Kat and Mom left him with Dad and I while Mom is at her doctor’s
appointment….so the old man and I are gonna get Davis a tattoo.) Normal blogging will resume Monday, so until
then—make the most of your weekend, cartooners!<o:p></o:p></div>
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