So, let me tell you about my friend Elaine. Elaine is one of the smartest people I know. She has directed me in an abundance of community theater plays since 1999 or thereabouts, and puts up with my general ineptitude where stage blocking is concerned. (I’ve only walked through the wrong door in 5 plays! … Continue reading Christmas Songs! (A Nice, Noncontroversial Topic)
Here we have two blog posts in one. I do this because I’m not sure I have enough to say about either topic to fill a decent post. So here we go. ____________________________________ It’s been a while since I posted some of my commercial work. A major part of my job at Radio City in … Continue reading Commercials, and “You Blockheads!”
Considering that they have known me for over a combined 60 years (not dollars), my friends Pat Adriance, Kalin Krohe and Jason Hager have probably figured out by now that movies are not my prime form of entertainment. I’m a TV guy, and a radio guy, and yes there are a lot of movies I … Continue reading “Hocus Pocus”: I Saw The Damn Thing
I’ve decided to write a blog about Earle Hagen. There is probably zero interest in this, but my quarantine weekends are so empty and mundane that writing something–anything–at least feels like hitting my binge-watching brain with jumper cables. I finally finished the massive “Best Of Mayberry” Time-Life DVD set which includes episodes of “The Andy … Continue reading Earle Hagen
I’ve been watching a DVD box set called “The Mayberry Collection.” It features a selection of well-remembered episodes from “The Andy Griffith Show.” There are also discs with episodes of “Gomer Pyle USMC” and “Mayberry RFD”, but I haven’t gotten to those yet. Fans of “Andy” are fortunate in being able to determine within 2 … Continue reading Andy In Color
TCM ran a Carl Reiner film festival the other night. He wrote and directed some pretty amazing movies, but the one in their lineup that fascinates me most is “The Comic.” There’s something just substantially unnerving about this film. For starters, when you pair Carl Reiner (who directed and co-wrote) with Dick Van Dyke, you’re … Continue reading Dick Van Dyke In The Most Depressing Film Ever Made
I imagine everyone has their own less-than-healthy way of dealing with The Quarantine. They say alcoholic beverage consumption is way up. But I don’t drink. What I do is buy way too many books. Like, seriously, I have a pile here of six unread books. And they’re not even culturally significant books. They’re giant coffee … Continue reading Alex Trebek, Arthur Godfrey and Regis Philbin
So sixteen months ago I began writing blog entries called “Tales Of Twitch”. I called them that because I was noticing a little twitch in my eye that started when I arrived back in Alliance after spending holidays with the family. At that time the twitch was really nothing more than a minor irritance. Especially … Continue reading Tales Of Twitch Part 4,219 (The Part That Actually Deals With The Twitch!)
About a day ago, give or take a few hours, I posted a rather dramatic appeal for moral support. It went like this: Someone please reassure me that the words people say on Facebook are just words, and are not ever translated into deeds or actions. I need external reassurance, because I have been trying … Continue reading Ignorance Is Bliss
Carl Reiner has died at age 98. 98 years old seems like a nice, long life…but no amount of years would have been enough for the man who gave us “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Now, Carl Reiner has done a million funny things–early sketch comedy with Sid Caesar; movie writing, performing and directing; being … Continue reading Alan Brady, We Hardly Knew Ye
