The Monday Artday challenge word this week is “lucky”. On June 2, 1925, Yankees manager Miller Huggins replaced regular first baseman Wally Pipp in the starting lineup. Pipp was in a slump, so Huggins made the change to boost the team’s overall performance. Huggins started Lou Gehrig instead. He stayed in the lineup for fourteen years. Although he played …
The inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday is “petals”. Long before Stephen Lynch and Weird Al Yankovic and Allan Sherman, there was Spike Jones. Spike Jones and his City Slickers kept Americans laughing from the early 1940s through the 1960s with his crazy versions of classical and big band standards. In addition to the usual …
The illustration friday challenge word this week is “contagious”. The Masque of the Red Death was written and published in 1842 by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a horribly contagious plague, called The Red Death, that is sweeping across the land. The symptoms of the Red Death are gruesome. The victim is …
The inspirational word on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration website is “family”. Two women meet on the street. “Oh my goodness! How have you been, Mrs. Nolan? How are your sons?” “Well, my sons! Let me tell you! My son Christopher, you know, is a big-shot Hollywood director! Oh, yes! He directed that backward movie, …
This week, the challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “parade”. It has been made clear that I am a big fan of Disney theme parks. I’ve been to Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California many, many times. I have written about and illustrated many of my adventures in ol’ Walt’s entertainment …
This week’s challenge on the Monday Artday illustration blog is “wild thing”. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another
A friend of mine works in the marketing department of a local Audi/Porsche dealership in the Philadelphia area. Several months ago, he sent me an email about a contest that the dealership would be sponsoring. Honestly, I didn’t thoroughly read the rules, I just listened to his brief explanation and I’m not sure I even …
The inspirational word this week on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “umbrella”. When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. Michael Isenberg, author
Robert Lees began his career as a screenwriter in the middle 1930s. He wrote several screenplays for the “Crime Does Not Pay” short subject series produced by MGM Studios and based on real-life crimes. He graduated to science fiction and ultimately wrote for Abbott and Costello, penning screenplays for five of the comedy team’s films, …
I write this at the risk of sounding like a cranky and bitter old man, but here goes. I love music. I especially love going to see live music. When I started to go to concerts, in those days of the early 1970s, the hierarchy of concert-going was as follows: the headlining band at the …
