Serendipitously stumbling on something you had long forgotten existed as a result of an unrelated internet search.
I've been watching the first series of an old Canadian program called 'Slings and Arrows'. It has an hilarious lead actor in it, who I didn't think I recognised, playing a character called Geoffrey, a Bernard Black like frustrated directorial genius whose trying to stage a production of Hamlet.
Turns out he was this guy, the Canadian mounty exiled to Chicago in the 1990s detective program Due South, an actor and TV show whose existence had long since escaped my attentions, but the recollection of which by a web of reconnected memories brought back a wave of nostalgia for the concurrent naff-but-enjoyable television culture of the mid-1990s: The X Files, Home Improvement, Sliders, Walker Texas Ranger, The New Adventures of Superman, 3rd Rock From the Sun etc. etc.
A sobering reminder of how much of my life I've wasted on forgettable American television.
Due South was a great program. I also have a fond spot for New Adventures of Superman as well, not sure why, as I never really watched it, just remember it being on in the background...
Some Swindon Town fans flying the flag at the England game. That's commitment to being a football fan.
Yep, saw that too! Impressed!
