Archive for March, 2006
I was rooting around in one of my storage spaces last weekend and found an old concert flyer from the 1980′s. The performers being showcased read like a Best of the 80′s CD compilation. Click here to peruse who’s live performance you missed in August/September of 1984. Included are: Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo [...]
I recently discussed H.R. Pufnstuf, one of my favorite kids shows. That show premiered alongside another less remembered psychedelic "Wizard of Oz" homage, "Here Comes the Grump." This cartoon was a basically an ongoing chase through a series of odd fantasy lands. The title character was actually the villain of the show. He was very [...]
Comedian Lou Costello was born 100 years ago today. Lou’s hometown of Paterson, New Jersey held a birthday bash for him over this last weekend. Lou’s future partner, Bud Abbott, was already 10 and 1/2 years old in 1906. They didn’t meet until 1931. It’s great to witness that Abbott & Costello‘s celebrity is growing [...]
So I was at a sports bar this last Fat Tuesday. They had five nice new HDTV sets tuned to different stations, all displaying something like this: Do you see anything wrong with these pictures? No, I don’t mean the people in them, the images are distorted! These images were filmed in the old television [...]
Mr. Death continues to have his way with my childhood icons. Six days after Don Knotts, former child-star Jack Wild passes away. He portrayed Jimmy on one of my favorite Saturday Morning kids programs, “H.R. Pufnstuf.” Wild’s death is no great surprise, he was not in the greatest of health at 53. Unlike hardworking Don [...]
