Essay
Summer Nights and My Radio
I got my drivers license in March of 1986 which meant the summer of ‘86 was the first summer of freedom for my friends and I. Several of us were able to drive at that […]
Month: January 2025
Saturday Morning Memories
Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
Hoping to build on the success of the immensely popular Star Wars trilogy, ABC decided to fill the void until the next film with cartoons based on the Star Wars characters. The two toon adaptaions were The Ewoks, starring the […]
Toy Stories
Essay
Learning a Lot About Life At the Grocery Store
It was early summer 1994, June to be exact. I was out of school for the summer and had driven my Mom to the local grocery store to do some shopping. It was an abnormally […]
TV Time
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Like any true success, Raiders of the Lost Ark was frequently imitated. Tales of the Gold Monkey was frequently lumped in with the ‘Raiders’ clones but it had actually been dreamt up by creator Donald Bellisario two years before […]
Essay
Lawn Care and Salad Bars – My First Experiences With Employment
The summer of ’83 was the first summer I mowed lawns. I had just turned thirteen in March of that same year and that seemed to have met some age requirement my dad had in […]
Saturday Morning Memories
Ewoks Cartoon
Those cute, bear-like denizens of Endor, first introduced in Return of the Jedi, received their own show two years later (not to mention some new action figures…). The Ewoks had proven their continued popularity in the […]
Toy Stories
Rock’em Sock’em Robots
The 1960’s were heady times for technology. While superpowers raced to put a man on the moon, scientists and amateur theorists dreamed of how technology would make the world of the future a safer, happier, […]