In looking back at the last three or four months, they were an incredibly productive time for this little blog o’mine. I wrote lengthy, time-intensive pieces…two original radio theater scripts…a handful of vintage TV articles, a book review, a DVD review…busy, busy, busy! (Billy DeWolfe, we salute you.) But summer! Summer is the time for … Continue reading Checking In
All performance photos in this article were taken by the late, great Lyle Fodnes. He really was everywhere. Say, did I ever tell you that I played fussy-photographer-with-sinus-condition Felix Ungar on the off-off-off-off-Broadway stage? Well, you probably need to add about 306 more “off”s in there. But I co-starred with my pal Dangerous Dave Kuskie … Continue reading The Odd Couple
Last weekend I wrote about buying a couple of bootleg CDs of concerts I attended long ago. And I shared some memories about seeing Paul McCartney at Denver’s Pepsi Center (now the not-Pepsi-anymore Center) in 2005. This weekend, I am back to review the other bootleg I purchased: July, 2012! Red Rocks! Beach Boys! Allllllllllllllllllll … Continue reading Fun, Fun, Fun
Ah, 1979. A memorable year. Saw “The Muppet Movie”. Had a 3-year-old brother to pal around with (and occasionally get into scraps with). Successfully completed the 1st Grade. Good times. When I was a kid my Dad, an IBEW lineman, frequently traveled to work assignments. Mom and I (and later brother Wook) held down the … Continue reading Spotty Memories: California Here We Come! 1979
So I don’t know about you, but I am ready to go see concerts again. (Honestly, I do know about you. Everybody is ready to do things again.) But while I wait for things to get better, I am waxing nostalgic on the great concerts of my life. And a week ago on Ebay I … Continue reading “Greetings Denver Colorado!” -Sir Paul McCartney
“That’s it!” I exclaimed, after walking in and out of the same three rooms for the 4,213,012th time since last March. “I’m getting the hell out of here!” Patrick’s my name. I write greeting cards. I’d like to write the funny ones but so far all I get assigned are the “heartwarming” variety. At least … Continue reading “Bubble Does Vegas”: A Short Story by a Short Author
So, about a year after I moved to Nebraska, Denise Marcoe (then Denise Chase) drafted me into the Main Street Players, Alliance’s community theater group. The first show I did was “The Fatal Fifties Affair”, a murder mystery set at a reunion of a 1950’s sitcom. For many years interactive murder mysteries were our big … Continue reading Gilligan’s Shirt
Watch this video first. It will give you the recreated experience of sitting through something tedious while waiting to get the the point of the evening. The idea to write this entry in the ol’ blogski came about earlier this week. We have a new account executive at the radio station named Kody who is … Continue reading Tonight’s The Night…When I Write About… Awaaaaaaards!
Hello, and welcome to a Russian doll blog post. Writing within writing within writing. This is 2020, tubby, quarantined, occasionally irritable for no discernible reason Wenty. I was watching DVDs of “Here’s Lucy” this evening (yeah, yeah, your taste in stuff sucks too) and I remembered that I met Lucie Arnaz in 2005. It’s not … Continue reading The Old Time Radio Convention (Always Try To Hook Your Audience With An Exciting Headline)
