Get Ready for Some Hope!

As we get ready to celebrate the greatest gift of all -- hope for everybody -- here's a new compilation of Christmas music.  Here are the tracks:

01 - Joy to the World - Cathedral Brass - 1998  (1:23)

02 - The First Nowell - The Elizabethan Singers - 1965  (4:09)

03 - I Wonder as I Wander - Radhika Miller - 1990  (3:17)

04 - Away in a Manger - John Edwards-Rondal Wallace - 2003  (3:19)

05 - Lullabies for the Baby Jesus - Mitzie Collins, Glennda Dove & Roxanne Ziegler - 1986  (3:14)

06 - Gloria! To God Sing Gloria! - arr Lloyd Larson - 2008  (3:40)

07 - What Child Is This - Jill Justice - 1990  (4:48)

08 - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - The Fab Four - 2002  (2:07)

09 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - London Festival Choir & London Symphony Brass Ensemble - 1987  (2:19)

10 - Lux Hodie...Orientis Partibus - Joel Cohen - 1975  (3:00)

11 - Concert Variations on “Adeste Fidelis” - Anna Maria Mendieta - 1993  (4:37)

12 - Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella - John Edwards-Rondal Wallace - 2003  (2:41)

13 - Sweet Child of Glory - Mary O'Hara - 1962  (2:03)

14 - Children, Run Joyfully - St. Louis Jesuits - 1977  (2:36)

15 - Fantasy on “O Come, Little Children” - Joseph Martin - 1997  (4:21)

16 - Hallelujah to the New Born King - His Love, Reaching - 1975  (1:38)

17 - Ding Dong! Merrily on High - London Festival Choir & London Symphony Brass Ensemble - 1987  (2:06)

18 - Zither Carol - James Galway Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Singers, Chapel Choir Of King's School Canterbury - 1986  (2:54)

19 - Silent Night - The Elizabethan Singers - 1965  (3:07)

20 - I Wonder as I Wander - Kathleen Battle - 1986  (2:57)

21 - Twelve Days of Christmas - The Swingle Singers - 1987  (2:56)

22 - Go Tell It on the Mountain - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia - 1993  (3:13)

23 - Sound Over All Waters - Theresa Thomason and Paul Halley - 1998  (4:12)

24 - Hark! - The Fab Four - 2008  (1:44)

25 - For All Eternity - Classic Fox Records - 2006  (1:48)

26 - All Is Well - Michael W Smith et al - 2010  (4:09)

Don't forget that things don't have to end dark and lonely.  Check out the light of the world, he's pretty cool!

https://www.filefactory.com/file/6rh6zylbegrs/MA-154.rar

See you on Thursday!

  

Superboy TV, Part 4

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

As elucidated in these earlier installments, this is a promo packet sent to syndicating stations for the 2nd season of Superboy.  It's courtesy of Ranger Roger, aka Mark Barragar.  I'm sad when I recall that it's been 10 years now since Mark's death.  Sah-LOOT!

Above are the front, unfolded interior, and back of this big folder.

The material for this post comprises the stuff provided for print ads -- for local newspapers or the rags' Sunday supplements, etc.

That's why the top-left corner of this legal-size folder says "Print Advertising."  Now, brace yourselves for a lot of now-quaint letterings, logos, and clip-art-type treasures!

This week!  Next week!  Tuesday!  Thursday!  All new!  The head spins!

When your mind straightens out after all this dizzying promotion, come back on Thursday for some what-have-you.

  

Name Those Hands!

Here is the final "hand" which I self-dealt as my mostest favoritest pop-culture or growing-up influences, all laid out purty like the cards in my own personal deck.

And here's my assembled desktop, a who's who of fun:

Row 1:

Peter Hardt of KVOO (Tulsa)’s Fantastic Theatre

Superman (George Reeves)

The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)

Captain James Kirk

Frankenstein’s monster (Boris Karloff)

Supergirl and Superman (Action #285)

The Avengers

Sledge Hammer!

The Addams Family

Gary Cooper in High Noon

Dracula (Bela Lugosi)

Supergirl (Melissa Benoist)

from The Wizard of Oz

 

Row 2:

Jonny Quest characters

WC Fields

Robin (Burt Ward)

Poe

Beethoven

Mighty Mouse

Emily Dickinson

HP Lovecraft

First Officer Spock

Richard Wagner

Clark Kent and Superman (Action #309)

Freddy the Freeloader (Red Skelton)

Illya Kuryakin

 

Row 3:

99 and Maxwell Smart

The Beatles (ABC cartoon)

The Munsters

Doctor Leonard McCoy

Niccolò Paganini

Napoleon Solo

The Beatles

Rorschach

Underdog

Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery

Batman (Adam West)

Bugs, Porky, Daffy

John Wayne in The Quiet Man

Row 4:

The Marx Brothers

Franz Liszt

Supergirl (Action #373)

Mr Waverly

Robby the Robot and the Robot

Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog

Bizarro (Superman #143)

The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr)

Thomas Magnum

Superman (Christopher Reeve)

Dr Mazeppa Pompazoidi

Joni Mitchell

Fred and Super Chicken

You could name EVERYBODY, couldn't you?  See you Monday.

  

You Catch Bigfoot and I'll Kill Him!

In January of 2021, a state rep from my own dear state came up with an unusual idea to, he said, stir up revenue. The state should sell licenses to hunt Bigfoot.

It seems rather disingenuous to advocate "hunting" a wild critter with the stipulation that you shouldn't kill what you "hunt."

Maybe we should sell lawmaker-tickling licenses! or cloud-counting licenses! or roll-your-eyes licenses!

Maybe they can institute the Bigfoot-hunting license, and require that you hunt Bigfoot with a special state-authorized gun:

See you Thursday!