Danny Elfman, born in 1953, is 57 today. Danny, who has what would be called a tendency toward the bizarre, morbid, or otherwise otherworl...

My old friend Eileen, when I met her almost 30 years ago, was a spy. Eileen had just gotten a job as an elementary school secretary at a sch...

Pete Townshend is 65-years-old today. Pete, as a founding member and one of two living members of the original British invasion group, The W...

Born 68 years ago today, May 17, 1942: Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, known to us music lovers as Taj Mahal. Thanks for the tunes, Taj! Have ...

There's an interesting blog where the author shares his memorabilia of 1970s rock concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He covers band...

I hadn't thought about the TV show Winky Dink and You for years, until I unearthed this old comic from my basement dungeon. The kids...

My friend, Eddie Hunter, who does the blog Chicken Fat , claims to be invisible. He's obviously not--this is him trying to bribe a terra...

Destination Moon , a movie from 1950, was an earnest, if melodramatic, way to present a vision of what a moon landing would be like. It'...

The steel-clawed monster, Freddy Krueger, has risen (again) from the dead in a remake of the 1984 hit, A Nightmare On Elm Street . It was nu...

I watched the notorious Goldman Sachs gang testify to the Congress. I'm always amazed when I see a well groomed, cleancut group like thi...

An article from the October 28, 1946 issue of Life explains movie censorship of the time. The picture on the first page is a joking example...

It's Alan Price's birthday today; Alan was one of the founders of the Animals, an important group from the British Invasion during t...

I like looking at old magazines for a look at the way we Americans were as a culture, especially in the early half of the Twentieth Century...