One of our frequent visitors at our Southgate townhouse was Denny, the Vietnam vet from Lewistown that we had gotten to know in Mifflin Hall who was in his late 20s but looked 40. Denny was still rooming with Ken, the fundamentalist Christian, on the fifth floor of Mifflin Hall. I don’t know if he … Continue reading Your Song
Autobiography
Capriccio Italien
When I was growing up, we had a record album from the Reader’s Digest called The Festival of Light Classical Music. It had pretty much what you might expect. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The 1812 Overture, Bolero, all the famous, easily digestible pieces. And it had Chaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. Though, like nearly everyone else, it mis-transliterated Chaikovsky’s name. Chaikovsky had … Continue reading Capriccio Italien
Trust No One
A while back I did a few posts about the biblical Herods, and I had intended to follow up with one about Herod Agrippa, the last of the biblical Herods, but I never got around to it. If you ever watched the TV series I, Claudius or read the books that it’s based on, then you're … Continue reading Trust No One
My Top Ten TV Shows of the 20th Century – #10
This is the tenth and final post of a series. The previous posts are: #1: The Howdy Doody Show#2: 77 Sunset Strip#3: The Edge of Night#4: The Defenders#5: That Was The Week That Was#6: The Dick Van Dyke Show#7: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour#8: The Mary Tyle Moore Show#9: St. Elsewhere#10: The West Wing I … Continue reading My Top Ten TV Shows of the 20th Century – #10
The Curious Incident of the Car in the Parking Lot
I still hadn’t found a job in the spring of 1971, and one morning I remember leaving the townhouse to walk over to the parking lot where my car was parked. The car, of course, was my parents’ car, a 1962 Oldsmobile convertible. At least I think it was a 1962 model. I know it … Continue reading The Curious Incident of the Car in the Parking Lot
My Top Ten TV Shows of the 20th Century – #9
This is the ninth post of a series. The previous posts are: #1: The Howdy Doody Show#2: 77 Sunset Strip#3: The Edge of Night#4: The Defenders#5: #6: The Dick Van Dyke Show#7: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour#8: The Mary Tyler Moore Show#9: St. Elsewhere #10: The West Wing Sorry for not finishing this series in a timely … Continue reading My Top Ten TV Shows of the 20th Century – #9
Howie and Bonnie
It was during the period in early 1971 that I became good friends with Howie Fatell and Bonnie Glantz. Howie was one of the three guys who lived next to us in the townhouse at 737 Southgate, and Bonnie was his girlfriend. In addition to being a fullltime student, Howie had a job as a … Continue reading Howie and Bonnie
Steve Sattazahn
Steve Sattazahn’s Senior class photo I first saw Steve Sattazahn when I was in fifth grade during the annual choral concert put on by grades four, five, and six of the Eastern Lebanon County Schools, before we were known as Elco. This would have been in the spring of 1960. The concert was organized by … Continue reading Steve Sattazahn
The Return of Edward Stutz
Dramatic music music builds slowly in a crescendo throughout these scenes with a steady, thumping drum beat. INT. DORM ROOM - DAY ED STUTZ is talking to JT. ED I told you, Jim, I didn’t think we had a definite agreement. CUT TO: INT. A DIFFERENT DORM ROOM - NIGHT Same two people. ED As … Continue reading The Return of Edward Stutz
Picking Up the Pieces
After I flunked out of Penn State my first thought was to try to get reinstated, so I applied to take a correspondence course. Big mistake. The course I enrolled in was Economics, a subject that I had always hated and did poorly in. I figured that as Terry was an Econ major that I … Continue reading Picking Up the Pieces