{"id":13634,"date":"2010-11-18T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2010-11-20T06:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T13:51:46","slug":"wheeeres-johnny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13634\/wheeeres-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeere’s Johnny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 I<\/strong> happened upon an HGTV<\/em> re-run the other morning while waiting, impatiently, for the French press water to boil. I stood before the ubiquitous 42 inches of plasma in our kitchen (itself, a residential multi-plex food prep\/family room, laptop wireless docking station, and occasional espresso\/dessert\/wine\/tapas bar for ourselves and the ever present house guest, or two, or six…) and recalled a simpler domestic time, back in….
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\n\u00a0\u00a0 In the 1960s, the Petro family kitchen was barely big enough for two grouchy adults, three kids, and an AM radio. Our infrequent household guests were offered Maxwell House and served spaghetti and meatballs on big clunky plates. We had one army green rotary telephone attached to the wall, used mostly for sending and receiving bad news. When it rang, everyone’s heart dropped.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Our dearly beloved Emerson TV\/HiFi cabinet was reminiscent of a thick mahogany coffin. It had its own dedicated wall, in it’s own dark paneled viewing room beneath one of my mother’s oil paintings. The setting was proper, solemn, and predominately prime time. Back then, ‘wireless’ meant, well…it meant there was simply never any wire when you needed some. It was more of a bad thing than a good thing. You know what I mean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reality Bites<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I steeped the morning nectar and settled in to watch an older segment of\u00a0 House Hunters<\/em>. At once I was cyber-sucked back to a virtual real estate WTF of a housing market long since past; a pseudo-realistic scenario starring three perfectly staged, non-foreclosed, dream homes, a deer-in-headlights couple with one in the oven, and a Stepford wife Realtor named Roxanne.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0laid back, clicker loose in hand, and unwillingly suspended my post-housing bubble disbelief.\u00a0 I gazed on as my iPhone pinged an endless wave of inedible Spam (the even worse kind).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Roxanne, the star of this particular episode, was strikingly unfamiliar. What is with all the famous nobodies on the tube today? If you’re a casual, part-time channel surfer, as I am, then it’s even more confounding.<\/p>\n

Where’s Johnny?<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Back in the Day you had your Lawrence Welk, your Walter Cronkite and your Johnny Carson. Three totally Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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