Archive for 2008
My Second Birthday – Entering the Terrible Two’s in ’73
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Mom didn’t make many notes in my Sweet Baby Days memory book about my second birthday – on Monday, October 2, 1973. Only that “Brad’s second birthday was spent at our new house at 3574 Echo Hill Lane.” Clearly the new house that we had just acquired less than two months prior was still garnering all the attention. However, my birthday celebration was the first event since our Cumberland trip that Summer to capture Dad’s attention enough to dictate that he pull out the Super 8 movie camera. Read the rest of this entry »
A Girl Named Rocky: Meeting June Foray
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
June Foray was certainly best known for her vocal portrayal of Rocket J. Squirrel in the classic Jay Ward cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. So yes, as I said, Rocky was a girl. But she also did regular girl voices too, like Natasha in the same cartoon series. But the more I found out about other projects in which she has participated, the more I think that her career path has roughly followed the path of ‘things I like.’ Read the rest of this entry »
Alicia Keeton
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I first met Alicia Keeton when we began attending Ankeney Junior High during our seventh grade year in 1984. I can’t remember the time or the place, or which classes we might have had together – if any. But what I do recall vividly was that Alicia was not only very pretty (as seen at right with the high hair of 1989), but very nice to everyone with whom she came in contact. That was rather uncharacteristic for most pretty girls that age – who seemed to be anything but nice to geeks like me.
Lunch with Adam Sadowsky
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
I must say that Monday, October 6, 2008 was shaping up to be one of the best days of the year – if not my life. The first dream of my ‘dream come true tour’ had come true that morning: a visit to the Playboy Mansion. Then out of the clear blue sky, yet another fantasy had come to pass: I got to meet Brian Wilson, rock icon who ranks at the top of my all-time favorite performers. Now I was on to the second planned-and-hoped-for dream-come-true of the day, to meet up with Adam Sadowsky, actor from my all-time favorite sitcom It’s Your Move. Read the rest of this entry »