{"id":2419,"date":"2012-09-26T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/remembering-pbs-star-hustler-jack-horkheimer.html"},"modified":"2012-09-26T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T23:28:00","slug":"remembering-pbs-star-hustler-jack-horkheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/remembering-pbs-star-hustler-jack-horkheimer.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering PBS &#8220;Star Hustler&#8221; Jack Horkheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The internet is good for\u00a0nostalgia, if it\u2019s not good for much else. \u00a0So we caught a brief stargazer\u00a0segment\u00a0on PBS tonight, and it made me wonder, whatever\u00a0happened\u00a0to that fellow I remember all those years ago on WOSU-TV, out of Ohio State University\u2019s PBS broadcasting? \u00a0The one who, during the summers when I could stay up late, watching old reruns of <i>Benny Hill<\/i>, or <i>Man About the House <\/i>(the show that inspired the 70s American show <i>Three\u2019s\u00a0Company<\/i>), or <i>Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus, w<\/i>rapped up the day\u2019s lineup? \u00a0When the shows were off, there was one thing left before our nation\u2019s anthem\u00a0signaled\u00a0the end of broadcasting, and it was this little gem:<\/p>\n<p>He always reminded me of Christopher Hewitt from <i>Mr. Belvedere<\/i>. \u00a0He had such an\u00a0enthusiasm\u00a0for the subject, I couldn\u2019t help but develop an curiosity for the heavens. \u00a0I eventually purchased a telescope, though times being what they\u2019ve been, I have not been able to upgrade as I had hoped. \u00a0Still, I credit my interest in astronomy, if even on an\u00a0amateur\u00a0scale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackstargazer.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to Mr. Horkheimer<\/a>. \u00a0The spit-and-a-handshake sets and graphics, the eerie\u00a0pseudo-sci-fi theme music, all left an impression that has never gone away. \u00a0I was sad to see he passed away only a couple years ago. \u00a0But it\u2019s the way of all things in the universe, which is why I sometimes think time is not a creation as much as it\u2019s simply our way of grasping with the morality of all material. \u00a0Nonetheless, some good memories that bring back thoughts of hot summer nights, open windows and fans, and falling asleep on the couch shortly after the TV went to static.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is good for\u00a0nostalgia, if it\u2019s not good for much else. \u00a0So we caught a brief stargazer\u00a0segment\u00a0on PBS tonight, and it made me wonder, whatever\u00a0happened\u00a0to that fellow I remember all those years ago on WOSU-TV, out of Ohio State University\u2019s PBS broadcasting? \u00a0The one who, during the summers when I could stay up late, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering PBS &quot;Star Hustler&quot; 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