My friend Tim Lucas posted a comment in response to my previous entry, “His Master’s Voice,” containing a number of interesting ideas that ...

Although colloquially referred to as a “Leslie”, the Leslie Rotating Speaker System is actually a sound modification (deformation) device, ...

In his witty and insightful book, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) William Goldman, a highly successful screenwriter ( Butch Cassidy a...

Last night my fellow Video Watchdog kennel member Kim Newman left a comment on my “DIDs” entry (DIDs=Desert Island Discs) that I found so i...

This morning I was pleased to discover that the number of hits on my blogspot had taken a noticeable spike, I suspect in part because of the...

Last night my friend Tim Lucas took the time to post comments to my recent entries, “Bubblegum Breakthrough” and “DIDs,” a gesture that I v...

It is no accident that virtually every album considered among the greatest in rock history is not a live album but made in the studio. To na...

The collocation “Desert Island Discs”—DIDs— normally refers to a music critic’s list of revered recordings, usually consisting of ten (10) a...

Four years earlier than the above date, in his first national television appearance on the Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show , broadcast January 2...

Although there are rather sophisticated Site Meter services available for monitoring website traffic, I use only the “basic” service—in oth...

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh... Having turned 25 years old in January, 1960, Elvis would have turned 73 years ...

Most certainly 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) made Arthur C. Clarke the most famous science fiction writer in the world. I’m not claiming tha...