Can you imagine my joy when, in 1975, I brought home a newly-released copy of Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare album, popped it onto my turntable and heard a deliciously creepy introduction by none other than the “King of Modern Macabre” — Vincent Price? It was (if I may borrow a word not particularly popular in …
I have been actively participating and contributing to Illustration Friday for over seven years. In that time, I have never missed a week. I’ve been on vacation or otherwise out of town, but I still managed to post an original illustration within the timeframe. Lately, Illustration Friday has been a little uninspiring. I don’t know …
I’ve done several “space”-related illustrations. Most depicting a science fiction theme or NASA-style astronauts, even a few with television or movie references. But this one is to appease my friend Steve, who, for years, has been trying to convince me that the 1969 Moon Landing was staged. Happy, Steve? Here are some of my other …
When I graduated from high school, I didn’t know what the hell I wanted to do with my life. I was working as a cashier at the women’s clothing store that my mother managed. I was planning on a career in the retail business, perhaps one day working my way up to manager myself. But, …
“I’ve been searchin’ So long To find an answer” — “I’ve Been Searching So Long” by Jimmy Pankow, as recorded by Chicago In early 1974, I would go every Saturday afternoon to Art Levin’s apartment in Northeast Philadelphia for Bar Mitzvah lessons. Art was the son of the rabbi that married my parents in 1955. …
In 1973, I was in 6th grade and I thought I was hot shit. When I entered Watson T. Comly Elementary School as a lowly first grader, I was scared and intimidated by the upperclassmen. They were cool and, to my tiny, impressionable eyes, they were so… so… grown up. Some of the 6th grade …
My annual Christmas music compilation is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time. 27 unusual holiday songs and a custom full-color cover with track listings – all for you and all for FREE! (That’s three more songs than last year and it runs a full three minutes longer!) Just CLICK HERE for A …
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!” — Marmion by Sir Walter Scott My dad was a liar. And not a very good one. In the long ago days before the internet, when facts were a little tougher to confirm, my dad made up shit left and right. He …
I have a confession to make. I love Gilligan’s Island, the 60s sitcom that, for three seasons, chronicled the totally-implausible antics of seven castaways stranded on an uncharted island somewhere in the vicinity of Hawaii. Don’t turn your nose up at me. You’ve seen it. Despite the show exhibiting slapstick humor and unrealistic situations, creator …
WFMZ, a local affiliate just outside of Philadelphia, picked up MeTV, the syndicated retro television network that presents programming exclusively from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, around the same time that Meredith Viera stepped down as co-host of The Today Show on NBC. When the insipid and unwatchable Ann Curry took over Meredith’s duties, I …
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