Welcome to TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS 2022!

Yup, all this month I'll be sharing stuff out of my three-volume scrapbook set.

The above squib is from Frederik Pohl's 1979 book  The Way the Future Was.

This is from the February 4, 1981 newspaper insert This Week.

The above jibe is from the January 25, 1992 TV Guide, which (like most of us) whines when we don;t get new product.

See you on Monday!  Don't worry about running out of stuff, we have several HUNDREDS of clippings yet to trek!

  

Another of My Heroes!

This all-too-brief survey of comedy god Mel Brooks is from the April 22, 1974 Newsweek.  Its excuse is the success of Young Frankenstein.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out the misspelling of my favorite pop in the first image.  "Dr Pepper" has NO PERIOD, you East Coast effetes!  On the other hand, "intentionally graceless" is a characterization to which we should ALL aspire (at least some of the time).

You might say that the salute to Busby Berkeley musicals is a foreshadowing of "Do the Inquisition" in History of the World Part 1.  But that kind of shibboleth-bashing is just part of Brooks's character.

Mine too!  See you Thursday.  We'll probably spend September TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!