Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart Video

I just saw a rare video of Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart at Booksteve's Library. Go there and take a look and join in on their campy fun.

Frank Miller's The Spirit

For years I hoped they would make a movie or TV series out of The Spirit. Finally comic book writer and artist Frank Miller made it one of his projects when he became a movie director. I thought this will be great. When I read his comic books I always thought they looked more like movies in the film noir vein. When it came to theaters I thought I would see it but I kept reading mixed reviews. So I held off. Recently I got it from the library. When I saw it I was underwelmed and thankful that I got it for free from the library.

The movie is in color but in most scenes you can hardly tell. Miller can't seem to make up his mind if he is filming the story in present day or the 1940's. I would have prefered the 1940's. The endless beatings he takes are in there and that is mostly what the movie is about. The Octopus injected him with a chemical when he died that made him immortal. It was a test by the Octopus to see if it worked. Then Octopus would use it on him. Speaking of the Octopus, only Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss seem to be enjoying their parts in the movie. Also I did enjoy some of the comic book referances. Young Denny Colt reading an EC horro comic book was good. I liked seeing one of the delivery trucks named Ditko's but why not name them Eisner's deliveries. The Spirit in this movie was shocaced as a Ladies Man. I never had that impression of him. Ellen was always his lady. He was just so good looking that other women seemed to always fall at his feet. In the movie he was always coming on to them. Even in front of Ellen. In short I think Mr. Miller's vision of the Spirit could have been better.

1970's Commercial for McDonalds's

Remember in the 70's when some commercials nearly gave you a Broadway Revue? Well here is one from McDonalds with some future famous charactor actors.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Afternoon Editon: Shazzan

The Brave and the Bold Comes Back May 1st

If you are missing Batman:The Brave and the Bold as much as I am you won't have to wait much longer. I have just been told that it will be returning on May 1st. Here are a couple of up coming clips from the new episodes.

Cardboard Gods

Even if you didn't like Baseball you probably collected Baseball cards. Well I just found the site Cardboard Gods. It takes you on a nostalgic trip via baseball cards from the 1950's to the 1990's. take a look at Cardboard Gods.

KFC Commercial

Here is a KFC Commercial where the Colonel himself nearly tells you how to make your own taste like KFC chicken.

Goofy 1970's Commercials

Steve Carlisle album

Steve Carlisle sang the opening theme song to WKRP in Cincinnati. I saw that on e-bay someone is selling the album he recorded it on. The auction has only 15 hours left so click here if you want to place a bid.

Happy Easter Christ the Lord is Risen!

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Afternoon Editon: The Barkleys

Micky on the Radio

I just got this from Brad of The Monkees Home Page and monkees-alert@yahoogroups.com

Micky Dolenz will be the special guest of Mark Simone on the April 11th,
2009 Saturday Night Oldies Radio program. The show airs from 6pm to 10pm EST. It can be heard in the NYC area on 770 AM. The station has a wide listening range so you may be able to hear it in surrounding states, some as far as Florida.

The program streams live on the WABC-AM website.

The above photo of Micky I saw when I was reading The Calgary Sun.

The Beatles Box of Vision

Want a clever way to store your Beatles CD's and enjoy the art of their albums? Then you may be interested in the Beatles Box of Vision.

Animated Batman with Adam West

Here is a Batman video with an all star cast from the DAVE School. The cast includes Adam West and Dick Van Dyke.

Video of the week:The Beatles Live?

Here is a video with clips from various concerts showing us what might have been if they really got together to preform "Free As A Bird" live.

Satrday Morning Cartoons: Young Sampson

It's been a while since I did one of these and I am sorry for that. Today we have a cartoon that I loved to watch as a child. I wish it was on DVD so I can still watch it. For now we will all have to be content with this episode of Young Sampson.

Chloe May Come to the Comics

Fans of Smallville rejoice. Chloe Sullivan may come to the comic books. I read about it at Comic World News.com. Not much more news then that but go to the site and look as it is an interesting place.

Six Things About Me

Well I have finally been tagged. It is something I have looked forward to and dreaded at the same time. I was correct in dreading it. I have been tagged by Booksteve. Now here are....

The Rules
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog.
3) Write six random things about yourself.
4) Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5) Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Now six random things about me that you may not know.
1. I wrote a carpet commercial that was actually produced. It's the one where someone is giving a party and sees someone spill something. They dive to catch the spill so that it doesn't hurt their new carpet. I hired a young lady to storyboard it then I took it to McSwain Carpets to try and get a job in their advertising department. The man didn't hire me but photocopied the storyboard to keep me in mind if a position opened. Less then a year later I saw the commercial on TV and was never paid or given credit. To this day I still see different variations of it on TV.

2. My wife and I met after a month of e-mailing each other through Christian web site.

3. I created and had a book published called Dinky the Elf. That isn't news to readers of this site but what might be is that my cousin josn found an action figure this Christmas that looked a lot like the character and gave it to me for Christmas. So now I have an unofficial dancing (yes it dances when wound up) action figure of my creation.

4. I use to try out for recreations at Old Time Radio Conventions. In one recreation we were all asked to sign a copy of the script. It was then auctioned off. To this day I can't believe that someone paid for my autograph. Also, in the cast were my cousin and his wife. It seemed funny that since there were only 6 people in the cast that half of the cast was family.

5. In the 1990's I worked for Lucent Technologies and one year won an award for best all around sales person.

6. I once acted in a student production that was directd by a friend and put on local cable. For months I was recognized from that 15 minute play on TV. Most of those times it was when I was in the directors neighborhood as they all watched since they knew him.

Now here at the people that I have tagged.
Rob! of Aquaman Shrine

Brian of Comics in Crisis.

Adama of Dispatches From the Arrowcave.

Luke of El Jacone's Comic Bunker.

Craig of Craing Zablo's Zone

and Jon of Random Acts of Geekery.

Major Matt Mason: the Movie

Even if you are one of the few who didn't like the Transformers movie it did do one thing. It got Major Matt Mason back on Hollywood's radar. Thanks to Pop Culture Safari I was directed to Empire On Line. There they tell how Tom Hanks is signed to play the lead role in the action film based on the toy. Finally! I have waited for something like this since 1966.

Davy Jones and Yvonne Craig on Ben Casey

I saw these pictures on e-bay. Don't look for a link as the auction already ended when I saw it. It was for 16mm film of the episode. Davy played a husband who would get high by sniffing glue and then would beat his wife (Yvonne Craig.)