David O. Friedman

🎤 Standup 🎬 Actor 🎶 Singer 💎 Roy Orbison Rocker 🕶🎙💎 The Former Guy Mocker 🎃 👀

[Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @RodSerlingFndtn]

“He taught those who ruled television…”

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"A monster had arrived in the village...He took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines—because they displeased him—and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages—"

"It's a Good Life"
Short story by Jerome Bixby, Teleplay by Rod Serling

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"In every country in which there has been a loss of freedom, where does it begin? It begins in news media, in public print, in books, and on the proscenium. That's where they attack you first right there. That's the bread basket."
—Rod Serling

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Today in 1964, The Beatles played for the first time in the United States.

Here’s the complete concert.

Enjoy this masterpiece.

[Rod Serling Memorial Foundation @RodSerlingFndtn]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"Judge a human being by his compassion and his sincerity."
~Rod Serling

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Well, this is absolutely beautiful and I’m a total mess of tears. 😭

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

December 25, 1924: 100 years ago, Rod Serling is born.

As he put it: “I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.”

Lois Nettleton (“The Midnight Sun”) called him “a lovely gift to the world,” and who could disagree?

A toast to all on the centennial of Rod’s birth!

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

“It may be a rotten thing to lick a man’s boots, but it’s a lot worse to be the man whose boots have to be licked.”
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

MIND-BENDING 🧠

1954: A scientist created a tank to "turn off" reality.

He stayed in it for 48 hours with:

• No light
• No sound
• No gravity

What he discovered haunts scientists to this day:

[Toan Truong @ToanTruong_]

This is Einstein at Princeton, 1935.

He was tasked to find which young physicists would revolutionize science.

His unconventional method found Oppenheimer, Wheeler, and Nobel-Prize winners before anyone knew their names.

Here is his ONE method to spotting genius: 🧵

[The Twilight Zone @TheNightGallery]

November 24, 1958: Desilu Playhouse airs "The Time Element," a Rod Serling story about a man who time travels to Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941.

Here's how it came about—and how it led to the debut of The Twilight Zone less than a year later: https://t.co/ZxwYBeaSro

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"Judge a human by his compassion and his sincerity.”
~ Rod Serling

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

Twilight Zone: "He's Alive" 1963

[laurelaitken @laurelaitken007]

The Beatles Now and Then was released a year ago today.
Interestingly if you speed it up, it sounds like a John Lennon song from 64.
Im playing it here (unplugged) on a JL Hofner Club 40. His first electric 🎸
What you think?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Just because Donald Trump acts goofy doesn’t mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Lately, some of the people who know Trump the best have been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again.