April 14, 2021
Any man playing grabass or fightin’ in the building spends a night in the box.
In the winter of 1967, you can bet there was a lot of “FAILURE… to communicate.”...
The Advertising
April 6, 2021
Monsters? You have no idea.
I have no idea what is growing on these (paper? cloth?) “monsters” to simulate hair. I...
April 5, 2021
… And some shit for my fly!
It’s 1958 and “The Fly” is playing at the Crest. Me, I wouldn’t be able to...
April 2, 2021
The Concerned Cook?
If this Detective Book Club still existed, I might have failed to do the math (It’s...
April 1, 2021
They got me!
Magic Spoon cereal sends me emails sometimes, often featuring new flavors. Today they presented Mac &...
April 1, 2021
It’s human nature to slack off
It’s 1935- The depression is barely over, not over for a lot of people, yet this...
March 30, 2021
HERE! Make your own toast! There are green brownies later, so don’t fill up.
I was looking at my dad’s old Jensen-Byrd Wholesale Hardware catalog today. What’s this? I don’t...
March 13, 2021
The manly art of selling newspapers
This was a comic book ad to sell something called GRIT, a newspaper? Magazine? I think...
March 2, 2021
The stuff of nightmares
I don’t know how old I was when the television introduced me to the “Green Giant”...
February 16, 2021
After the bad times
We were discussing what we are going to do after this pandemic lunacy fades away. There...