Old Gold Stories Told
If you need a disclaimer, here it is: I can probably guarantee that what follows will be almost impossible for you to understand. I, for certain, can’t explain the true meaning or creative effectiveness of my thoughts having been turned into an honest appraisal of their meaning. After all, my old gold stories stem from...
Read More Lift up your head and shout:
“There’s Going To Be A Great Day” At Dorsey High School, back in those days of the real early fifties, the student body referred to athletes around campus as “the jocks”. Most of us didn’t walk like regular humans. We’d “swagger”. We were a bunch of sixteen-year-old kids who grew up playing baseball as men....
Read More A Long Way Back In Time…
The date yesteryear was 1770 Or was it Known to all These 13 colonies The Revolutionary War Upon them Taxes too much Jobs too few Similar from yesteryear For me and for you Infamy in a way Our American future Then as now, it seems People having split dreams Or baffled by life With its...
Read More A proud and emotional remembrance…
A proud and emotional remembrance… What follows will be recognized as a coinage by that of this man—now known to a fair chunk of our voiceover world as “da harv”. I refer to my “lead-in”. The term “lead in”, many years ago, was described by a prominent actor as the purest of precious metals known...
Read More Independence Day, 2023
It’s come and gone But this day of togetherness Will linger on Not only those who served We’re all veterans of America Reaping glory In what the founders prescribed Within our country’s Constitution “Independence Day” Hip, hip, Hurray!!! As being lived by da harv – HK – There is just nothing like being surrounded by...
Read More About 70 Years Ago
“July 4th, 1954: About Seventy Years Ago” Marilyn Monroe Visiting Troops in South Korea in the Aftermath of the Korean War “…Visit American troops who had been fighting on the front line. The whirlwind tour saw her perform 10 shows over four days to more than 100,000 soldiers and marines who were celebrating the end...
Read More Pinnacle of Endeavors
PREFACE – FROM AN ACTOR’S LOG, AS DREAMED, 2:00 AM – It was such a nice little dream to be living! [It was our dreamer’s agent on the phone.] “Good news”, she said. “Remember that thing you recorded and sent off to Kalmenson & Kalmenson yesterday? Well, they just called to let me know they...
Read More Our Lovelorn Society
If it has become your intent, or you have succumbed to the wholesale indignity of suffering through the slings and arrows of what is referred to as the entertainment industry, then I beg of you: try breathing. I beg of you Then I beg of you again Try breathing Between you and nature alone A...
Read More History Shows Us
“History Shows Us” Part of what the USA is about! Pitchers Catchers Batters Outfielders Infielders First & Second Stringers Coaches Minor League Players, too, The Majors, as well As those too old to play Even little leaguers learned To make our hearts swell From the very beginning An all-American story Ours to tell Men, women,...
Read More Rally ‘Round The Flag
“Rally ‘Round The Flag” Since forever began, I’m here to tell ya’ what they reported as being a factual question: What in the name of hell has happened to this generation of young people? The answer hasn’t really changed our planet’s malady: Young people are born at a very young age and continue to age slower...
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