Monday, March 18, 2024

Not that There's Anything Wrong ...

Sometimes you just know the editors of these scandal rags were laughing themselves sick over their self-perceived cleverness!
Like this selection from the September 3, 1991 Star.
Or this breathless tell-all about heavy breathing on the set of Star Trek VI, from a December 1991 handout Movies USA.
Here's one from the previous year, also about STVI, from the November 20, 1990 Star.

As Johnny Crawford sang, don't believe all the rumors you read (or hear)!  See you Thursday.
  



Thursday, March 14, 2024

All I Want to Do Is Direct!

That's one of the stereotypical movie-star laments.  In the case of Trekdom, we've been fortunate that people who want to do it have actually pulled things off sometimes!
From the November 11, 1982 Oklahoma City Journal, we read about Nimoy directing an episode of The Powers of Matthew Starr.

The above is from the August 5, 1983 Oklahoma City Times.  It was my first knowledge that Nimoy had been trusted with the franchise, with Star Trek III.  That space opera came out as least as good as it should have.  (Although the Klingons were less sinister than I wish).

See you Monday!
  

Monday, March 11, 2024

Trekking Ahead!

Our joy at getting a Star Trek movie was separate from any opinions about what we got. And we wanted MORE!
This clipping from the Oklahoman of May 25, 1980, was one of the tantalizing tidbits we clung to.
This one, from the October 9, 1980 Oklahoman, gave us more to dream on.
And until then, we could buy the Motion Picture on video, finally, as this ad in the December 6, 1980 TV Guide informed us.

What a great time to be a fan!  See you Thursday.
  

Thursday, March 07, 2024

Hooker Triumphant

This article is from the August 14, 1982 TV Guide.




Dig that crazy headband!  See you on Monday, fellow Trekkians.
  

Monday, March 04, 2024

Welcome Back to TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

Yep, this month of March will feature more of the hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles I clipped from the 1960s into the 1990s.
The above squib is from the April 20, 1980 OKC Journal.
Mother dear clipped the above article from the same day's Tulsa World.  As you can tell, they're almost the same thing, except that the OKC article inserted the local plug of Trek reruns.  Also, the World article runs a few more paragraphs.  Funny how you could just cut off the tail end of an article and we poor kids didn't know any better?

This one's from January 18, 1981, in the "TV News" insert for The Oklahoman.  No, I haven't seen the Buck Rogers episode "Journey to Oasis" -- have you?

See you on Thursday!
  

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Farewell to This Childish Heart!

Yes, this is the final post for this year's MY SIXTIES VALENTINE.
Don't miss the word "So" under the boy barber's chin.
You can tell by this one that we didn't care if we gave a boy-seeking-girl valentine to another boy.  The rules required you to give EVERYONE in your class a valentine.  Tough luck if a boyish one went to a girl, or the other way around.
No explanation as to how that cat's paw could handle a three-hole bowling ball.

Well, that's it for this year, fellow heartthrobs!  Come back on Monday for a month of TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!
 

Monday, February 26, 2024

Kindergarten Romance -- Not!

Here's the as-yet-unshared valentines I received in 1962 for Valentine's Day, in Mrs Pickell's kindergarten class. 

But first the pouch they came in.


Sad to say, I can't put a face or even a last name to David B.

Similarly, I don't remember playing with a Margaret.

I'm pretty sure that this Paula was Paula Bland.

Check back on Thursday, which due to the frabjous happenstance of this being a Leap Year, we'll have one more installment of MY SIXTIES VALENTINE.

It's a date (in a purely platonic way)!
   

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Platonic Love, I Hope

You know, childhood in the Sixties had a lot more innocence for us than I imagine is the case nowadays.
I mean, we all know what bunnies do when nobody's lookin -- they make more bunnies!
Someone could leeringly make a voyeur joke about that one.
Am I wrong, or shouldn't there be a hatchet or maybe a log or board in this kid's hands?  Otherwise, someone might think he's referring to another kind of wood when thinking about his sweetheart?

But thoughts like that didn't come up when we were innocent.  See you on Monday for the last week of MY SIXTIES VALENTINE!
  

Monday, February 19, 2024

Movin' Along

Yup, these valentines from 1963 feature motivation of some kind.
It's interesting that a lot of Valentines seem to be emulating the lives of our parents or grandparents, vide the 1800s locomotive above,
... and the 1930s flivver here.
Of course, a mouse on an elephant never goes out of style, right!?!  See you Thursday!
  

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Now We're Cookin'!

These three valentines from First Grade, in February 1963, demonstrate that old adage about gettin lovin' through food. Umm, yeah!
If only our grown-up metabolism could handle a sundae like that, without an immediate ten-pound weight gain!
You could say this guy's love is saah-MOKE-in'!
All of us rough-n-tough type of super-manly guys would have pretended to be all polite and obedient if we would've got some fresh-baked sugar cookies from that little girl.  "Sure, Susie, I'll play house ... until I gobble the last one and run out to play ball until I throw up!  Bye!"

See you Monday, fellow crumb-dusters!
  

Monday, February 12, 2024

Simple and Direct!

For this batch of Valentines from First grade -- February 1963 -- they ain't nuttin' high-falutin' or high concept. Just simple, direct, unequivocal luv.


They's nuthin' wrong with simple and direct ... as long as I don't gotta kiss no girls!  If THAT has to happen, warn me so I can get a clothespin for my nose!

See you Thursday, fellow nose-holders!
  

Thursday, February 08, 2024

Animal Love from 1963

Yes, these valentines from first grade (1963) kept things on a subhuman level.

This one confuses me.  Generally I don't associate being cuckoo with being "ho-hum" drowsy ... unless the crazy bird has been doped up by the headshrinkers.
This one recalls the memory that violins used to be strung with "catgut."  So, Is this cool cat serenading YOU by playing music on the eviscerated GUTS of his last girlfriend?

Whatta buncha animals!

See you Monday!
  

Monday, February 05, 2024

Welcome Back to MY SIXTIES VALENTINE!

Yup, we're gonna have another February filled with actual Valentines I received for 1962 and 1963, when I was in Kindergarten and First Grade.

These are from 1963.  The middle one is front-and-back of a single card.



The one above didn't come from a first-grade classmate, but from the big sis of my best friend, Tom Hefner.  I guess Pam was forced into it, although I DO have proof elsewhere that Pam didn't totally hate me, if I can ever find the comic-book proof.
Remember, in the Sixties, such images were one hundred percent innocent.  So no butter jokes or remarks about being stacked ...

See ya Thursday, fellow nostalgians!
  

Thursday, February 01, 2024

Hoe Latte Love

 


Let's start this supposed Month of Love with a new music compilation with a couple of dozen ... umm, ... different takes on the subject.

01 - Tropical Fish - The Elevators - 1980  (3:09)
02 - Love Potion No 9 - The Clovers - 1959  (1:54)
03 - Indigestion - The Prams - 1979  (2:08)
04 - I Broke Her Heart, She Broke My Arm - Stark Naked and the Fleshtones - 1981  (3:05)
05 - Humpin' Up a Dead Girl - Hatman Williams (Phil LaMarr) - 2000  (1:37)
06 - Computer Love - Lord Manuel and the Neighbor Hoods - 1978  (1:22)
07 - I'll Never Make Fun of Her Mustache Again - The Dellwoods - 1963  (2:14)
08 - Little Ghost - White Stripes - 2005  (2:31)
09 - Answering Machine - The Moderns - 1981  (3:29)
10 - I'm Losing My Lunch Over You - Luchs Brothers - 1978  (1:32)
11 - Undertakin' Daddy - Wayne Raney - 1952  (2:20)
12 - Living China Doll - Moving Parts - 1980  (3:12)
13 - Girl in a Magazine - The Brains - 1980  (3:07)
14 - She Loves Herself - Nuclear Boyz - 1981  (1:45)
15 - Tombstone Number 9 - Murray Scaff and His Aristocrats - 1956  (2:48)
16 - Glendora - Downliners Sect - 1966  (2:43)
17 - Anorexia - God and the State - 1985  (3:44)
18 - Graveyard Tree - Koffin Kats - 2003  (2:52)
19 - Cancel My Order for Love - Rodd Keith - 1972  (2:02)
20 - Schizophrenic Baby - Sheldon Allman - 1960  (1:45)
21 - Ballad of the Caveman - Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - 1976  (1:30)
22 - The Stalker - Laurie Powell - 2000  (3:18)
23 - Zombie Girl - Dino-Mike - 2013  (3:11)
24 - The Beast with Five Hands - The Groovie Ghoulies - 2006  (2:02)
25 - Karen Ann Quinlan - Vomit Pigs - 1979  (3:00)
26 - She's in Love (with the Rolling Stones) - The Telefones - 1980  (2:56)
27 - Time Warp - John Dowie - 1977  (2:00)
28 - Two Ton Tessie - The Banana Splits - 1968  (2:22)
29 - I Don't Want to Be Your Amputee - John Dowie - 1977  (1:43)
30 - The Moon and Me (from The Addams Family) - Kevin Chamberlin - 2010  (3:02)
31 - (I'm into) Shoes - Wild Horses - 1982  (3:11)

I ain't gonna tell you what to do, but please listen to these songs for entertainment purposes ONLY!


See you on Monday.  Until then, try and find somebody to love!
  

Monday, January 29, 2024

Secret Origins of Superman's Secret Origin!

It's all true, I tell ya!
It's the June 1, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes.
And Bob Hughes lays out the previous "official" DC roots of the Man of Steel.








See you on Thursday with a new music comp for the month of love!  Then we'll dive into MY SIXTIES VALENTINE!
 





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