Dutton/Penguin Group; May, 1992 “Jim Morrison Goes to the Renfaire!” Strange Days is a roman à clef recounting Patricia Kennealy’s brief affair with Jim Morrison, the […]
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Fan Art: I Try the AI Art Fad
I love to go through old magazines from my youth. After finding an old 16 Magazine, I saw a page where lucky teens had their very […]
Lara Parker Memorial Service/Remembrance Weekend July 5&6
I’m trying valiantly to resume blogging after my housing disaster last year. If all goes well, I’ll write more in the coming weeks and months, […]
John Lennon and “Run For Your Life”
A kerfuffle arose on FB before Christmas on the MidCentury Fashions page. Some folks took umbrage over a post featuring John and Yoko’s “War is […]
“He Dies In The End”: Old TV Show Spoilers
Like most people, I try to start the year on the right foot by turning over a new leaf. I wanted 2024 to begin on […]
Ode to Angelique: Lamar Rickey Hawkins (aka Lara Parker) Dies Aged 84
It’s been two weeks. As most of us scurried through the second week of spooky season, none of us knew the woman who played witch […]
A “Truthy” Story:
Communion Turns 37
It came and went, and no one noticed – 25 February was the 37th anniversary of the publication of Whitley Strieber’s Communion in paperback. Yes, it’s been thirty-seven years […]
Lady’s Bowels In Uproar Over “Petting!”
I woke up Saturday morning wondering what I could write about. My main feature on Whitley Strieber and three decades of anal probes is bogged […]
Comfort TV: Farewell Decades Channel
For years, I could not receive the classic TV channel Decades. Last year I discovered the new Frndly streaming service that offered these cable/over-the-air subchannels […]
That Time I Looked for UFOs:
The UFO Flap of October 1973
October 1973. US involvement in Viet Nam ended with the springtime Paris Accord, and the Nation was moving on. The meat shortages of summer were behind […]