DOG ASIDE: USA Network had a popular Friday night program that ran for many years in the decade of the 1980’s known as Night Flight….which was a visual-arts magazine and variety television show that originated on USA Network targeting a younger demographic. Featuring an eclectic mix of mainstream and alternative music videos, artist interviews, B…
DOG ASIDE: Lisa Law is an American photographer and filmmaker….best known for her photographic chronicles of the counter-culture era. Law is also the author of the book and documentary film Flashing on the Sixties. Law’s career as a photographer began in the early sixties….where she landed a job with as an assistant to the manager of…
DOG ASIDE: Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy did some hilarious skits on Saturday Night Live dealing with the world of sports….and this video gives you several of those skits….one on the NFL Strike….and another on Georgia RB Hershel Walker turning pro….plus there is a great interview by sports columnist Mike Lupica of the New York…
DOG ASIDE: Mark Steven Fidrych (August 14, 1954 – April 13, 2009) who was nicknamed “The Bird”….was a Major League Baseball pitcher….who pitched his entire career for the Detroit Tigers (1976–1980). In 1976, Fidrych led the major leagues with a 2.34 ERA….won the AL Rookie of the Year award….and finished with a 19–9 record. Shortly after, injuries…
DOG ASIDE: This video leads off with a great piece on Charlie Hustle….Pete Rose….who to some people’s thinking is the greatest hitter of all time in Major League Baseball…..as this piece focuses on the remarkable career of Pete Rose…..followed by commentary from sports columnists Dick Young of the New York Times regarding how money has…
DOG ASIDE: I have seen several sword swallowing performers before in my life….but I have never seen a HUMAN swallow curved swords…..like the in this video….for this guy is the best I have ever seen…..and that is followed by a stunt woman who becomes a HUMAN ball of fire….for this lady is a daredevil of…
DOG ASIDE: This piece of the HBO Daredevils covers The Amazing Randy in a block of ice for a new world record of 55 minutes…..followed by a trapeze artist who does his routine while hanging from a helicopter….and to top that off….we get to see the only man in the world who has not killed…
DOG ASIDE: Now folks, I know this is a video piece about daredevils….but these HUMANS take the cake…..cuz they are just a few cards short of a full deck….as the Amazing Randy sets a world record of being encased in a block of ice….then a man becomes a human cannonball….a feat that has over 40…
DOG ASIDES: HBO’s Daredevils is hosted by Robert Conrad….and involves some serious daredevils….as Webster defines daredevil as a person who without apparent fear….faces and accepts or carries out ….anything unusually dangerous. In this video piece….motorcyclist / stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker jumps 125′ feet in the air to jump over a helicopter with its blades whirling…..and…