PBJ: 2002-2023

I’ve decided to end Professor Barnhardt’s Journal.

It’s been a great 21-year run! But it’s not getting much traffic these days and I have other projects that I’m working on.

Some of the stuff that I posted here, such as video and links and recipes and random this and that, I’m going to post at my main site. You can sign up to get emails when I have new posts. I’d love it if you followed me over there.

Thanks to all of the readers and contributors! I really appreciate every visit and everyone who wrote for the site. I’ll leave the archives up if you want to surf around.

Thanks again!

Bob Sassone

Still one of my favorite Christmas commercials

Get Ready!

For those of you too young, this was the 1970’s.

Buster Keaton

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen a whole Buster Keaton film, but after watching this compilation I plan to remedy that.

The first Dragnet

The 1951 episode is called “The Human Bomb” and features Raymond Burr as the deputy chief of police. He’s credited as “Ray Burr,” which I don’t quite understand because he was already making movies by that point and well-known and always credited as Raymond.

20 Years!

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Professor Barnhardt’s Journal. Here’s what Yahoo! Picks had to say about us when we launched. (Remember Yahoo! Picks?)

And here’s the very first issue, where I asked people like Roger Ebert, Lawrence Block, TC Boyle, John Scalzi, and Will Leitch why they write.