This is my second illustration of three illustrations for the Illustration Friday word “breakfast”. Here is the first one and here is the third. A month or so ago, WXPN‘s afternoon drive time DJ Dan Reed was coming out of a block of music and easing into a conversation with Lauren Valle who was about to give a …
“The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.” — Henny Youngman I grew up watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I loved seeing the big name comedians like Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene (although I didn’t get a lot of his material) and the “King …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “giant”. Robert Wadlow was a relatively normal eight pounds six ounces at his birth in 1918, however an overactive pituitary gland would soon change the course of his life. By eighteen months, Robert weighed sixty-two pounds and by the age of eight, he was 6 feet 2 inches tall. By …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “satellite”. One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody’s satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV’s all over the world. Steven Wright
The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “paisley”. Gerome Ragni performed in several small theatre productions until he collaborated with fellow actor James Rado on the first Broadway musical to celebrate hippie culture Hair. Hair was unlike anything that was previously presented on the Great White Way. Audiences were assaulted and enraptured by free-form dancing, …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “ripple” and it came with a brief request. I will paraphrase from the weekly notification email: “The subject should pertain somehow to the Gulf – the oil spill – the oceans and the creatures that live in it and around it.” “Where did you get this bottle of …
This week’s challenge word on Illustration Friday is “trail”. Ghost hunters, ghost seekers, paranormal investigators, ghost busters, ghost chasers. Whatever they wish to be called, they are always on the trail of a ghost. They come armed with an arsenal of sophisticated hi-tech equipment like true infrared digital cameras, non-contact infrared thermometers, microlight red light …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “slither”. The remarkable Prince Randian was one of the most successful sideshow performers of the 1930s. He was brought from his native British Guyana to the United States by showman P.T. Barnum in 1889. Despite being born with no arms and no legs, Prince Randian demonstrated his ability …
The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “early”. In 1961, billionaire industrialist J. Paul Getty gave his simple, three-part formula for success: Rise early. Work hard. Strike oil.
My dad was a simple man and he loved simple things. He loved the Philadelphia Phillies. He loved breakfast at the Heritage Diner. And he loved pornography. I’m not talking about the occasional Playboy magazine that, as a nine-year old, I stumbled across hidden under some shirts in a bottom drawer or the lurid novel stashed …
