Digital Ink Los Angeles

In 1958, CBS bought Serling’s teleplay, “The Time Element,” which he hoped would be the pilot to his weekly series.

The story was about a bartender who keeps waking up in Pearl Harbor knowing the Japanese will be attacking the next day but unable to convince anyone he’s telling the truth. CBS bought it, and the rest is an adventure in madness.

The premier episode of The Twilight Zone series was “Where Is Everybody?” on October 2, 1959.

“The Hunt” is Digital Ink Los Angeles‘s favorite episode, the 19th episode from the 3rd season, 1962.

Enter another dimension of time and space…

Watch an excerpt from the premiere episode below:

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It all started on September 24, 1759, when Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease agreement on an abandoned brewery in St. James Gate, Dublin, Ireland. BRILLIANT!

Guinness is now sold in over 150 countries, with more than 10 million pints served everyday. BRILLIANT!

It’s not a beer — it’s a meal!

Happy 250th Anniversary, Guinness.

BRILLIANT!

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Anyone who’s ever been to a ball game knows its call to stand and give praise to
Old Glory:

O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

195 years ago today, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem describing the U.S. flag still standing after a British bombardment. It was during the War of 1812, and Mr. Key had been watching the Battle of Fort McHenry from the British confinement he was being held in for one night. When the sun rose, he saw the flag had survived.

On any day, the same freedom that allows someone to burn a flag also necessitates their need to give thanks for that same flag.

In a nation that allows someone to speak to the eminent figure of U.S. government in slander (You Lie!) in front of 50-million people, what’s the essence of this freedom if not the emblem of this freedom?

The Star Spangled Banner is more than an anthem to commence an athletic event, it’s a testament to American liberty and the idea that, no matter how tough things get, that flag will still be there. Regardless of race, creed, religion, gender, politics, age, or income, the flag flies.

Jim Hendrix saw the Star Spangled Banner as a protest song. Makes sense, as the freedom it personifies requires active participation.

Watch Jimi protest his liberties and freedoms by letting his “freak flag fly” here:

Billed as an “American Musical Fantasy,” The Wizard of Oz opened in theaters on August 25, 1939 — 70 years ago last week.

Based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, many historians now believe Baum’s premise was slanted toward an argument for the “Gold Standard” in economics — hence the Yellow Brick Road.

Warner Brothers is releasing a 70th Anniversary Edition on September 29th.

We’re not in Kansas, anymore.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my.

Poppy Fields.

Flying Monkeys.

Auntie Em.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Heart, Courage, Brain, and a Home.

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She came in the early morning, with a wind that made grown men cry, and her fury was the end of 1,836 people.

As can be seen in Times-Picayune photographer John McCusker‘s image to the left, Katrina made a point about sticking around longer than she was welcome, leaving New Orleans a different place than it was before.

On August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina was in the Gulf of Mexico where it powered up to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, with sustained winds at nearly 175 mph. Oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico recorded 100-foot waves, some causing these mammoth structures to collapse under the weight of the storm’s tremendous water load.

At 7:10 a.m. EDT on August 29, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, just south of Buras, as a Category 3 hurricane. Maximum winds at landfall were estimated near 125 mph to the east of the center — crossing just south of New Orleans, then turning north toward Bay St. Louis, Mississppi, where she made a second landfall.

View Times-Picayune coverage here.

The New York Times article on President Obama‘s promise to continue rebuilding New Orleans.

And another website dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina here.

The best book on the subject is by Tulane University professor Douglas Brinkley, titled The Great Deluge.

Four years later, and the Crescent City still stands — albeit with a population only 70% of what it was on that fateful weekend. But it will never be the same. Hopefully, it will be better.

“We’re not even dealing with dead bodies. They’re just pushing them on the side.”
— New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, regarding rescue crews trying to locate and save hundreds, if not thousands, of people who, in the days after Katrina struck, were still stranded on roofs and in attics.

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