Not living long enough to see fame…

On the Final Taxi, I talk about people who touched our lives through their talents. Today I want to talk about someone who may have had those talents and could have touched our lives but did not live long enough for us to find out.
While reading the obituaries this morning, a habit of mine, I [...]

Pet’s Remains: Caskets, Cemeteries & Cremation

The moon is full, the air is still, All of the sudden I feel a chain,
Victor is grinning, flesh rotting away, Skeletons dance, I curse this day,
And the night when the wolves cry out, Listen close and you can hear me shout.
I don’t want to be buried in a pet sematary I don’t want to [...]

A Sesame Street and Electric Company Writer

When I was younger we only had 3 channels. The CBS channel was fuzzy so we had ABC, NBC and PBS.
As a kid, the closest I got to see cartoons on a weekday was watching the educational show that were on the PBS channel. So I watched Sesame Street because it was funny. [...]

Losing Kitty and Ho

Listen to this weeks Podcast of the Final Taxi on Kitty Carlisle and Don Ho.
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Kitty Carlisle Hart, the supremely elegant actress, singer, arts advocate and TV personality is remembered for her role as the romantic musical heroine of the 1935 Marx Brothers film “A Night [...]

Cheerios.. Just add Milk

I recently had to see my doctor for a checkup. After the exam he told me that my cholesterol levels were a little high and that I need to get more oat products in my diet. My oatmeal and raisin cookies didn’t count.
He suggested that I eat oatmeal for breakfast or an oat [...]

Memorable Ads From Howard Field

As I think back about all the TV I watched as a kid, you have to admit that if the TV show sucked you always had some good commercials to watch. At least they were memorable.
Okay, I will have to admit that we’ve occasionally been known to sneak off to the bathroom or kitchen [...]

Larger Crematoriums For Larger People

There is many ways in which people take their Final Taxi. One common way is cremation. Cremation is the practice of disposing of a human corpse by burning which often takes place in a crematorium or crematory. Cremation probably started sometime in the early Stone Age, around 3,000 B.C. in parts of Europe and the [...]

Aloha, Don Ho

Don Ho, an entertainer who defined popular perceptions of Hawaiian music in the 1960s and held fast to that image as a peerless Waikiki nightclub attraction, has taken his Final Taxi at 76.
The first time I ever saw Don Ho was on that episode of the Brady Bunch when they get to take a trip [...]

Frank Tovey – 5 Years without a new Fad Gadget.

I can not believe that is has been five years since the death of my favorite musician.
 
Frank Tovey, an innovative English musician who recorded electronic and industrial music in the 1980’s using the name Fad Gadget, died on April 3 2002. Tovey was a artist, a poet, a lyricist, a pioneer, an innovator, a [...]