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I remember watching reruns of the original 1950’s-era Mickey Mouse Club in the mid-1970’s.  And thanks to cable television at the time, I could watch episodes on the New York City independent television station WNEW-5, as well as on Boston’s independent WSBK-38.  And then, eventually, the Mickey Mouse Club was picked up locally by WAST-13,…

My friend and former Goldmine magazine co-columnist Lisa posted a link to this YouTube mashup clip on her Facebook page.  Now if you know me, you know I love mashups.  I also am a fan of the Game of Thrones TV series, and I totally love the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. So when I…

Okay, only a few weeks to go before we see the debut of the third season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Everybody psyched? Yeah, me too. Which is why I got a kick out of this. Someone created a webseries in which the entire Game of Thrones universe is condensed into a high…

I swear, it happened by accident.  One night while I was at an event, I could have sworn I heard someone humming a melody from my memory.  And instantly, I remembered the words. “Where, oh where, are you tonight?” The other person stopped humming.  He looked at me.  And he said the next lyric. “Why…

Remember Amish Mafia?  The TV series on the Discovery Channel that purports to tell the story of an Amish / Mennonite band of protectors of the Plain faith in Lancaster County, Pa.?  You know, the show with “Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus and his crew of enforcers?  The show that brought new meaning to the term “Amishploitation”?…

Depending on how old you are, you will either be totally confused at that blog headline… Or, if you’re from my generation, you’ll immediately have an image of four anthromorphic costumed characters partying and dancing around an amusement park. Yep, I’m taking you all back in time for this. If you were a kid in…

Every so often, characters from your favorite TV shows will invariably end up on one game show or another. More often than not, the characters will find themselves with boatloads of money, only to either blow it on the final question, or get disqualified for some obscure rule violation. And in the end, they receive…

With the NHL finally returning to our collective sports pages, I thought it might be fun to bring back another icon from the ice hockey world. In this case, I’m bringing back Peter Puck, the lead character in a series of Hanna-Barbera produced cartoons that were designed to explain ice hockey to new viewers.  I…

I swear, when I hear this disclaimer that the Amish church disavows any knowledge of the Amish Mafia, I wonder if I play the disclaimer backwards, it will provide some secret message like “Try my cousin Ephraim Yoder’s shoo-fly pie, it will make thee very happy…” Well, I thought we were all done with this…