This Years Deaths- Final Taxi Riders of 2007

We lost many a person who touched our lives in 2007. They made their marks in all walks of life: from politics to pop culture, fashion to music, movies and TV. There were big names and small names but the world lost many friends this year. I know I could never list them all but [...]

Legendary Jazz Pianist – Oscar Peterson

For Christmas this year my wife bought me a season of the Simpson’s TV show. In one show the Simpson family visited Toronto for the 2002 episode The Bart Wants What It Wants, Ontario Premier Mike Harris welcomed the family to the city in advance and suggested in an official news release, “Lisa can jam [...]

The Leader of the Band – Dan Fogelberg

In Christmas of 1978 I needed to find my older brother a gift. On most occasions I got him a LP that he had wanted or that was popular at the time.  That year I went to a OZ records store and bought him Twin Sons of Different Mothers an album by Dan Fogelberg who [...]

A Rock & Soul Legend or a Villain? – Ike Turner

When you think of early rock and roll who do you think of?
Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly or even Bill Haley and his Comets might be a few names you come up. The shame is that the name of Ike Turner does not pop up for most people. But Ike Turner is credited by many music [...]

A Hotel People Are Dying To Get Into

For my wedding anniversary I took my wife to a quaint little place in North Alabama called the Secret. It has four cottages that are themed based. They had a tree house, a Western jail, a log cabin and a nautical theme cottage. We choice the naval one.
Themed cabins and hotels are popping up all [...]

PODCAST: Phantom Character Actress – Jeanne Bates

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Jeanne Bates was best known as Nurse Wills on the 1950s medical series Ben Casey. She appeared on hundreds of TV shows over the years, including That 70’s Show, Wings, The Young and the Restless, Dallas, Three’s Company, Quincy, M.E., Charlie’s Angels, The Rockford Files, Cannon, The Saint, Wonder Woman, Hawaii [...]

Podcast Junky Spotlights the Final Taxi!

One of my favorite podcast to listen to is the Podcast Junky  show. Megan, the host, asks the question “what are you listening to?”  She talks to people who will tell her about their podcasts and of those they are listening to as well.
This week she review The Final Taxi podcast.
Give her a listen and [...]

PODCAST: Evel Knievel

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Listen to this week’s Final Taxi podcast as I talk about one of my childhood [...]

Sex and lingerie models selling coffins?

Over the past two decades, the use of increasingly explicit sexual appeals in consumer-oriented print advertising has become almost commonplace. Sexuality is considered one of the most powerful tools of marketing and particularly advertising. Post-advertising sales response studies have shown it can be very effective for attracting immediate interest, holding that interest, and, in the [...]

Favorite Christmas Movies – Thank You Very Much, Anton Rodgers !

There are thousands of Christmas movies out there and everyone seems to have a favorite.
It’s one of the best ways to get into the holiday spirit by dusting off your favorite Christmas films and watching Rudolph, Charlie Brown, Ralphie, Clark Griswold, Ebenezer Scrooge, and other classic characters as they celebrate the yuletide season.
Among the top [...]