RETROSPACE takes a look back to an era when cartoons were only on Saturday mornings!
One recollection I am grateful for, however, are those wonderful Saturday mornings. Unlike today, where children’s cartoons literally play all day long seven days a week…. on multiple channels. It’s hard to imagine that, once upon a time, there were just a few hours a week on TV that were reserved for kids. For those brief moments, it was just you in your footie pajamas, a bowl of Count Chocula, and Speed Buggy. It simply didn’t get much better than that…
TELEPORT CITY remembers Theda Bara the original vamp…
Louise Brooks is our girl, but in our darker moods, we here at Teleport City want nothing more than to skulk down into some opulently decorated but ominously spooky antechamber to engage in some manner of esoteric Thelemic ritual with Hollywood’s first vamp. Theda Bara had an elaborate, if untrue, mysterious background that added to her public mystique. If any screen siren of the Silent era was going to take us in and destroy us, you’d be hard pressed to find a better way to go that being devoured by the woman with “the face of a vampire but the heart of a feminist.”…
