Archive for February, 2009
Peddling Through the Summer of 1977
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
After returning from my fabulous Disney World / Florida vacation in early June, I was left with a whole Summer of nothing to do. Well, that’s not exactly true. First of all, I immediately set about creating my masterpiece epic novel about Disney World (described slightly more in depth in the previous posting), and other useless arts and crafts (as seen above). My classes had ended at Hope Nursery School and Mom wasn’t working in order to take care of Denise. So it was truly a Summer of lingering around the neighborhood, pestering Denise, playing in the kiddie pool in our backyard, visiting with Andrea, and getting into mischief. And of course there were my afternoon friends Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Zoom airing consecutively on PBS. Read the rest of this entry »
On the Case With Nancy Drew
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Pamela Sue Martin was best known for her role as Nancy Drew in the late 70’s series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. Although I never watched the show at the time it was aired, I do now have the first two seasons of the show on DVD. She also had significant roles in The Poseidon Adventure and as Fallon Carrington Colby on the nighttime soap opera Dynasty. Although her acting career has never included anything personally significant to me, I did request that Bob pick me up a signed photo when she made an appearance at the Hollywood Collectors Show in the late 90’s. The photo he chose must certainly be one of the hottest photos ever taken.
Denise’s Fifth Birthday and Easter of ’81
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Denise turned five on Wednesday, April 8, 1981. As usual, I had a hard time dealing with her getting all of the attention even on this momentous occasion – especially when she was allowed to have a birthday party with her friends and cousins. It’s humorous in a way to see me infusing my brand of idiotic humor into the photos of her party, making faces and mugging for the camera whenever possible – but in another way it is indicative of the little cretin that I had become…for no apparent reason. Read the rest of this entry »
Miss Carol Kane…and Two Other Misses
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
On the evening of Tuesday, October 7, 2008, Jimmy and I had worked our way back to the Pantages Theatre in the hopes of catching David Garrison on his way out of the evening performance of Wicked. I had brought along my It’s Your Move photo that I had had Adam Sadowsky sign the day before, but in the excitement and anticipation of meeting him, I plum forgot to bring along the cast photo of Taxi that I had found at the Hollywood Collectors Show a couple of days before. From that sad fact alone, I should have known that the evening would be jinxed. Read the rest of this entry »