Egg McMuffin Creator Bites The Big One

Why is it that kids always want to eat a McDonald’s? I did my best to take them someplace nicer or healthier but I ended up there just to appease them. The only time that I will eat at McDonald’s is during breakfast. I will buy their breakfast burrito or a bacon and egg biscuit [...]

Richard Widmark – A Real Tough Guy

The film world has lost one for its finest actors, Richard Widmark, who has taken his Final Taxi at the age of 93. I remember him for all of his gangster roles as he was typically cast as a villain or tough guy. That type-cast came because of the role he played as Tommy Udo, [...]

Wear Your Dead Pet

If you look up ‘dog sweater’ in Google you will find all kinds of clothes for your four-legged friend to wear. It was become a very profitable business. Many people will take the time to even knit a coat for their furry companion. But a British couple have taken on a different meaning to the [...]

PODCAST: Brunkert, Dixon, Gynax- All Final Taxi Riders

Listen to Direct Download of MP3- click here. Ola Brunkert was a former drummer for 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA. The group has not performed together since 1982, but continues to sell 3 million records a year. Ivan Dixon was an African American actor and television director, best known for his series role in the [...]

Hogan’s Heroes “Kinch” – Ivan Dixon

I picked up a new DVD set  released this week of an old TV show that I barely remembered but have enjoyed watching in syndication. It was a collection of the 3rd season of Hogan’s Heroes. That show ran from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS TV network. The comedy starred [...]

The Most Listened To Unknown Musician In Rock- Chuck Day

It’s funny how when you listen to music you may never know who is playing with the name musician. Many times a popular artist will have session musicians come in and play on a song. Session musicians are musicians available for hire, as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit [...]

Rocketeer’s creator – Dave Stevens

Back in the early 80′s I was buying comics from a tobacco store that doubled as a comic book shop in Tuscaloosa Alabama. I had become a fan of a writer/ artist Mike Grell. His Jon Sable- Freelance book was ahead of it time in story and art. I also picked up Mike Grell’s Starslayer [...]

Letter to Heaven returned- Postage due

Imagine wanting closure from the death of a loved one and getting a bill for it. That is what happened when a French teenager who wrote a letter to her late mother in heaven had it returned with a demand for postal costs. The 13-year-old girl, named, addressed the letter to Paradise Street, Heaven. Two [...]

Gary Gygax, D&D creator, rolls a natural 1 on a saving throw

One of my favorite episodes of the TV show Futurama has the lead character, Fry, wondering what would happen if he had never gone into the future. A machine shows him that it would have caused a rift in the time and he is abducted and introduced to the “Vice Presidential Action Rangers”, led by [...]

Precious Moments Figurine Creator – Eugene Freedman

Have you seen that episode of The Simpsons where Ned, Homer’s next door neighbor and an avid collector of Humble figurines, gets fed up with the morally bankrupt populace of Springfield and moves to the fictional Humbleton, Pennsylvania? This is where figurines which depict large-eyed boys and girls in iconic Americana settings are produced and [...]