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Kung Fu Fighting
The current debt limit debate that’s currently taking place in our nations’s capital somehow brings to mind the TV series from the early 70′s, Kung Fu. It featured the late David Carradine as Kwai...
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I Love Lucy
Today would have been comedienne Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday. It’s said that she can be seen on television somewhere around the world any moment of the day, most likely in her classic series I Love...
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US Pro Cycling Challenge
I’ve written here before about how we follow the Tour de France each year and normally that is the extent of our cycle racing for the year. Cheri tries to keep up with the tours around the world but...
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42 Years of SPAM
It was 42 years ago today that the BBC first broadcast a sketch comedy show that ran for only 45 episodes over four season but has endured the many decades since, inspiring countless adolescents and...
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The Zombies Live On
I have never seen the HBO series True Blood. Maybe I’m reticent to get sucked into the current vortex of popularity created by the return of vampires and zombies in pop culture. I don’t know, but I...
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Sad Day in Mayberry
It’s fitting that on this American holiday that we mark the passing of an actor who represented an idealized slice of Americana. Andy Griffith, who died yesterday at the age of 86, was best known for...
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Breaking Abbey
Tonight’s the much anticipated American debut of Downton Abbey‘s third season. I know that I’m looking forward to get my fix of the drama following the family and serving staff of a huge British manor...
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Artist Cafe
I spent yesterday afternoon straightening up my studio a bit, something that I’ve been putting off for some time now. It really needed tidying and I really did want to de-clutter the place just for...
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Filming In the Studio
Well, the folks from WSKG came to my studio the other day and filmed my segment for their Artist Cafe program. As I mentioned the other day, I was somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing, never...
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Artist Cafe Broadcast Today
Back in march, I wrote here about a film crew, Tina Reinhard and Christy Lantz, from WSKG-TV that had come to my studio to record a segment for a regional TV show focusing on the arts, both...
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I Am the One Who Knocks
I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks! –Walter White ********************* This was the response from Walter White, the geeky high...
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Artist Cafe Web Extra
My friends at WSKG sent me a video yesterday of a new , very short feature that they call a Web Extra , which can be also used on television as a sort of filler in the interval between scheduled...
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Coincidence
The rational part of my brain always wants to shrug off coincidence as mere matters of probability but I still am excited in a way when I experience it, even when the coincidences are seemingly...
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Greener Pastures: 42
It’s kind of a sad Sunday. For one thing, our favorite ice cream place, Mindy Moo’s, is closing for the season. Actually, that’s probably a good thing as we have been indulging way too often but I...
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Tomorrow Never Knows
Popular music has played a huge part in storytelling in films and television in recent years. For example, this past weekend saw the end of the television series Breaking Bad with the final scene of...
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Christmas Time Is Here
I’ve been taking a few days off here around Thanksgiving, taking it a bit easier in the days that kick off the first days of the Christmas season here. I can’t say I’m as big a fan of the holidays as...
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Opening Day!
Ralph Fasanella – Night Game/ ‘Tis a Bunt 1981 Ah, the dark days of winter are receding. The trees are budding out and the green of the grass (under the newly fallen four inches of snow!) is pushing...
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To the Siren’s Song
Well, I made delivery yesterday to the Principle Gallery of the paintings for my show, Haven. This exhibit opens Friday, June 1 at the Alexandria gallery with a reception that runs from 6:30 until 9...
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Half Measures
*********************** The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences....
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Skating
Hey, A Charlie Brown Christmas is on PBS tonight! I grew up with this seasonal special from Charles Schulz and his beloved band of characters who felt like childhood companions. Its soundtrack from...
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