Judy Tenuta, one of the most outrageous and rambunctious comediennes of the 80s and 90s, passed away recently at age 72 of ovarian cancer. If you aren’t familiar with her stand-up, you might recognize her from a variety of cartoon voice acting roles and a series of collaborations with Weird Al Yankovic. In 1996 or … Continue reading Facing The Goddess: The Day I Met Judy Tenuta
I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend who rents a small place in the basement of KCOW, the enterprising weirdsmobile himself, Bob S. Bestos. Bob has been making regular appearances on my morning program again after a long sabbatical in Antarctica. And I have been coercing otherwise sensible people into taping cameo guest appearances … Continue reading Crazy, Bob, Rowlf and The 2000-Year Old Man
Nobody does classic TV on DVD like MPI Home Video. My library is thick with their releases of “The Jackie Gleason Show”, “Here’s Lucy”, “The Mothers-In-Law”, Perry Como specials, Doris Day specials, all kinds of goodies. Their latest release is a genuine rarity, with MPI’s usual outstanding array of bonus features. In Spring of 1965, … Continue reading DVD Review: “Marineland Carnival” and Other “Munsters” Rarities
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
Say! It has been a while since I last shared some of the radio commercials I write and produce for my beloved employer! So here are some fairly recent ones. We start with two spots for Alliance Community Pharmacy. The first is to promote a contest for the last baby born in our fair city … Continue reading And Now, These Messages…
So, every month I pay a few bucks to an outfit called Dreamhost to host Wentyworld.com. Which I am happy to pay–but I do feel a little regret if I don’t actually generate content for the website. I mean, I’m never going to be one of these people who post new stuff every day. My … Continue reading My Mel Torme Story
I guess everybody notices things about themselves that their friends and loved ones just don’t observe. Here’s what I notice: This is called “facial droop.” It is a side effect of Botox treatments I take for a hemifacial spasm, which is a delightful burden in which an overactive nerve behind one of my eyes causes … Continue reading “My Face, My Twitch and Other Things” by The Cowsills
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!
