Daily One Inch Button - Sydney Pollock

Though a lot of people know him for his minor role on the television show Will and Grace, actor / director Sydney Pollock had accomplished quite a lot by the time he was on the small screen as the proud parent of his gay son. I watched one of his masterpieces, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? when I was taking a film class at Rutgers. (That film provided the inspiration for the episode of the Gilmore Girls titled They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? Same theme, naturally. He was also brilliant in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives - yet despite so many years of hard work, I can't help but feel that there was the potential for much more had he been given the time.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Hay...

Hay there... it may not be a shampoo or line of beauty products anymore, but the hay is still out there, waiting to be piled up and used on the farm. Our darling friend Vampire Bear summons all the might in his body to pitch the hay onto the back of the truck and now we use the illustration to help us remember the letter "Hey" in the Hebrew language. Vampire Bear reminds us that mnemonics are especially helpful when you are learning anything, especially since he has been using them to teach us all about reading the Hebrew language. He is quite the lovable bear, isn't he?

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Daily One Inch Button - AC Slater

He loved to call Zack a preppy, didn't he? I never really understood why, being that they clearly attended a public school and Zach didn't look like any of the kids at Peddie to me - that was my prep school. I guess preppy kids are different on the West Coast - or maybe AC thought that, compared to how he dressed, Zack was a preppy. He was quite the dancer - and seeing how well he did on Dancing with the Stars clinched it for me, though I knew he was awesome just by the way he danced at the diner. He always had a way with women though Jessie seemed to have a special place in his heart. I don't know about you but I used to want to touch his hair; just because.

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Daily One Inch Button - Cereal For Dinner

I really do.

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Daily One Inch Button - Portable Tape Deck

Many men (and women) were and currently are able to walk with this device, which did not necessarily mean that they were or are even now walk men and walk women. I personally was super jealous when my friends got newer models than me with all kinds of fancy functions whereas mine seemed to be older and came from sales of the garage variety. I was actually looking for one earlier today - it has a special function that allows it to record via an internal or external microphone. That's a special kind of tape deck.

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Daily One Inch Button - Lucille Ball

Strangely enough, my fondest memory of Lucille Ball comes not from I Love Lucy but from a later show she did - I can't seem to find any information about it, of course. In the episode, the store where she's working gets a computer and she puts up a list of reminders about the computer using a magnet and the last item on the list is to keep magnets away from the computer since they will erase the hard drive. Oh, how poignant. I really did love Lucy. She was a genius and her comedy is fresh even today.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Moon

Darling little Vampire Bear is checking out the moon, much like Juliet in the classic film Juliet of the Spirits and the one touching scene in Enter the Dragon. (You know that we here love Bruce Lee, right?) This button comes right from the letter mem hebrew lesson from Vampire Bear's increasingly popular series, Learn to Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear. I can't help but wonder what he is thinking about while looking at the moon - maybe he's thinking about how peaceful it looks.

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Daily One Inch Button - Jennifer Keaton

Even thought I was a wee child when my family started watching Family Ties and Jennifer was a teenager, I found that I could relate to her character in a way that I couldn't relate to the others. Being the younger sibling probably had something to do with that. I was amused by the jealousy issues Jennifer had when her younger brother Andy was born just a few years later and I was a bit closer to being a teenager myself. She certainly was a lot more level-headed than her older sister but she wasn't nearly as serious as her older brother Alex. You had to love her, though.

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Daily One Inch Button - Speedy Recovery, Senator Kennedy

In my prayers and thoughts.

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Daily One Inch Button - Transistor Radio

You're not going to be able to hear Howard Stern on this radio. There's no Martha Stewart channel, either. This is the kind of radio that people used to listen to Guiding Light, when it was a radio soap opera. People listened to all kinds of dramatic recordings on the radio - still do in the UK and other countries. I wonder if there are people out there listening to This American Life on this kind of radio. It may not be commercial free but it also doesn't come with an annual subscription fee.

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