I grew up on this show! (My mother was a fan and I became one)- always had a big crush on him too – I can still see him running around with that damn microphone – so lanky.

All that aside, happy anniversary!

You ARE the Donohue of online astrology! Love him, love you! Cheers!

Interlocution is a lost art. Discourse, dialog. We all HUNGER for meaningful human interaction. We have friends, or most of us do, and as we live more and more of our lives on line, we seek similar venues for congregating with friends. I’m reminded of the “bar” theme “happy hour” thing that happened here a few months back on this blog. In many ways, what this blog provides is a gathering place for people with common interests to share ideas and be social.

The immense popularity of Facebook and even, yes, ghasp, craigslist personal ads and on line dating services, points to the need/desire/want to communicate with others when we are alone, turning to our virtual lives and virtual friends. This blog is different in that it is content based. You can’t have discourse without a topic, without a scope of conversation. Message boards underneath articles are one thing, but posing a question to a group of people, as if you’re in the room with them, is another entirely.

This blog is a really high level of human interaction on line, and I’m impressed by the personal, cordial, respectful way things are written here. People have identities on here, so you aren’t as likely to be a jerk and mouth off and hide behind anonymity. Rather, there’s a community of people here, who participate more or less, and get to know eachother’s stories. It is refreshing to have a network with which to discuss some of the most important issues in life with people. And you can do so at your leisure — the text is always here, the content is always here. You go to the grocery store, do errands, work, live your life, but you can come to this website at your leisure and add and read and enjoy as time allows.

The choice of content you find important/interesting (star du jour’s ass may be interesting to some, we have discussed such things on here too) is up to you. But there is a general level, standard here at this blog: we aren’t going to be assenine, and if you are, don’t be surprised if you get called on it post haste.

I am thankful for this blog. Lots of entertainment, good insights and discussions. Hope this and blogs like it continue in the future.

Cheers to the interlocutrice Elsa and all who write/contribute content!

Just in case, I wasn’t the only one that had to look up interlocutrice…

interlocutor

1) a person who takes part in a conversation

2) (Also called) middleman the man in the centre of a troupe of minstrels who engages the others in talk or acts as announcer

(http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/interlocutrice)

sorry if that post duplicated ….sighs ( any wonder i lurk ) falls back in a dead faint

Happy Anniversary!

norah, I saw that show with Marlo too and we talked about that last. I also read his book and he so bewildered when he found himself dating after a divorce. He said he would go out with a woman and then come back to her house and she’d play her answering machine messages and there would be other men on them saying, see you on Tuesday! He didn’t know if he was old fashioned or what but he just felt hurt!

Thing is, I knew women back then who would do that, very deliberately. Matter of fact they would save an old message for this purpose or even have a male friend call and leave a message so they could communicate that the man they were on a date with had competition. I was on Phil’s side here and really happy to see him with Marlo who he said rescued him… obviously.

Now when someone disagrees with someone they call them a moron,..or worse. They wave their hand to dismiss the person completely… or worse.

Life used to be a lot more interesting before it became black and white. There used to be nuance and it was actually possible to make a point.

Nuance. What a great word.
Unfortunately, I think most talk-show hosts these days come with an agenda attached. And you never got that from Phil. Even Oprah gets a little too Oprah-centric for me.

Donahue and Geraldo – funny how each show makes the other look when you compare them.

I remember Phil too and watched him although I was young. I think in a lot of ways Jon Stewart is like Phil was back in the day. Phil, like Jon, is left-leaning but moderate and had the wisdom to be open-minded. Jon, like Phil, is also a Sag. It’s kind of sad that Jon, a liberal Jewish comedian is one of the few voices of moderate centralism in the media in our crazy, messed-up, country. He calls it as he sees it – whether it’s a Tea Party mishap or Obama. I have respect for his ability to cut through the b.s (again like Phil) of the situation and see if for what it is. And you know what? He’s usually right.

Dick Cavett was great back then too and even Jack Paar and Johnny Carson!