MPI Home Video is my favorite company where DVDs are concerned. They get that designation by default for releasing not one, not two, but three different Perry Como television shows. (I’d hope for more but that seems piggish, considering that I can’t imagine a combined sales figure of more than 27 copies for the three.) … Continue reading How Sweet It Is!
This is one of my favorite random “SImpsons” bits: Of course, the actual “very late Three Stooges” shorts…the final batch produced at Columbia Pictures in 1955 and 1956, featured Larry, Moe, and Joe Besser. I just finished a pretty lengthy autobiography that, in its initial printing in the early 80s was called “Not Just A … Continue reading On The Bookshelf: The Joe Besser Story, Available in Hardcover and “Not So Ha-a-a-rd” Cover
Pat Adriance is one of my closest and dearest friends. Last summer when I went home to see the family, Pat and his clan paid us a visit. Pat’s Dad is a retired social studies teacher with a Master of Arts in Political Science. His master’s thesis is now a book: “Nixon, Congress, And The … Continue reading On The Bookshelf: Nixon and Drugs
Starting to put a dent in my “unread books” pile. If Facebook memes are to be believed, I am far from alone in the habit of gathering books faster than I can read them. But I do like to read them…sometimes it just takes a while. “Yabba Dabba Doo! …or Never A Star” is about … Continue reading On The Bookshelf: Reed and Brooks
None of these things individually qualify for a blog post. But put them all together! And…..it still really doesn’t qualify as a full blog post. Nevertheless, I’m paying for this blog and I gotta generate content. So, content ahoy! -In a previous blog post, which I did not share on Facebook or promote in any … Continue reading Random Thoughts For A Saturday
Facebook is always selling to me. It knows the weird stupid crap I like, and flaunts it shamelessly before me. It’s a cavalcade of things I don’t need and would never have had the urge to own had Facebook not been pimping them out to me. Like a Frank Sinatra watch. I didn’t need one. … Continue reading Snoopy Is Cooler In Japan
Today I happened to chat with Tim Garwood, brother of former KCOW General Manager Mike Garwood. Tim told me about a day in 1998 when his brother Mike told him, “Well, I’ve never hired someone on just a telephone interview, but I guess I’m gonna do it now.” The someone was me. I’d never heard … Continue reading Fifty!
“Wentyworld” is the name of my blog, and my promotional Facebook page. And it’s also the catch-all title for the events and occurrences of my life. So you’ll get a little bit of both here. As a bachelor, I don’t have nearly enough interesting things to fill a “Christmas letter”. But I think I can … Continue reading Wentyworld 2021: The Year In Review
Here is is, my week of emotions. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be glad you don’t live in the apartment under mine. Anxiety. At the beginning of this week, I noticed the carpet in my bathroom, in front of my tub, was damp. I contacted the property owner. The maintenance man, with a plumber, worked … Continue reading Emotions!
Boy, that Charles Dickens didn’t a have a clue what he had unleashed upon the world. There have been, oh, let’s say, 487, 211 film and television adaptations of “A Christmas Carol.” Here are 5 I like. Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol If artistic and musical quality were the only qualifiers, “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” would … Continue reading Wenty’s Top Christmas Specials Volume 2 (“Whoops! All Christmas Carols” Edition)
