For years and years now, I have been adding to a list of things I am thankful for. I have decided to retire ye olde list; if you are desperate to see it, and the annual updates from the 16 years that followed, it’s here. It’s not that I am no longer thankful; in fact, … Continue reading Thankful For Friends
Randy West is a highly regarded, very talented voice over artist who has announced a cavalcade of game shows, awards shows and the like. He is also a frequent “warm-up” man, welcoming studio audiences and getting them in the mood to laugh and have a good time. I became most familiar with Randy West through … Continue reading On The Bookshelf: “TV Inside-Out”
BLOGGER’S NOTE: To talk about these amazing films, I need to explore some of the great twists, shocks and surprises contained therein. I beg you: If you haven’t seen “Psycho”, “Rear Window” and “The Birds”, please don’t read this post! See the movies. They are genuine classics. Not boring “old movies” but eternally entertaining. TLDR: … Continue reading My Six Favorite Things About My Six Favorite Hitchcock Movies (Part 2)
BLOGGER’S NOTE: To talk about these amazing films, I need to explore some of the great twists, shocks and surprises contained therein. I beg you: If you haven’t seen “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, “North By Northwest” and “Vertigo”, please don’t read this post! See the movies. They are genuine classics. Not boring “old … Continue reading My Six Favorite Things About My Six Favorite Hitchcock Movies (Part One)
At this evening’s Alliance City Council meeting, a ruling on fireworks was set to be changed. For many moons now, the City of Alliance has allowed for a ten-day window of setting off “4th Of July” (and surrounding days) fireworks. Ten days is the state limit. Many citizens have complained that ten days is too … Continue reading Beware The North American Ten-Toed Dullard
Facebook and my laptop are not playing nice lately where photo galleries are concerned. I lovingly, tenderly arrange photos, write pithy comments, and then Facebook scrambles all the photos up so the whole thing makes absolutely no sense to anybody. So, I have decided to just post the photos, and a couple of song videos, … Continue reading Let’s Hang On To What We Got.
On Monday May 23rd I returned to Alliance after a marvelous weeklong getaway to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Since I’ve already stolen the Larry King blog template, I am swiping the format from an old TV Guide column to gather many topics here. “Cheers” (in case I have to explain this) are for … Continue reading Walt Disney World: Cheers and Jeers
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
