I apologize for not posting very much lately, but my time has been taken up with new duties at work & dealing with my parent’s estate. Speaking of estates, I bought a large collection of the weekly, Life magazine-knock-off, Look magazine at an estate sale, here in Springfield. My sister was looking at them & …
This was featured on a Tumblr I follow called Batman On The Cover. It is a compilation of old Batman comic book stories for readers in Brazil. It was from 1965, right before Batmania happened in the United States.
Saturday night was a SVSC Wolves Basketball home game. College basketball was the biggest event in Spring Valley. They were playing the Central Missouri State College Mules. Since it was early in the semester, Clint was in good standing with his grades so he was able to participate in the game. Mykel had never been …
It didn’t make the Billboard Top 40, but it was on many Top 40 radio station’s hit surveys in the early part of 1966. It is well remembered as one of the great rock anthems of the Sixties. The Who’s classic “My Generation.” Here is a great video I found on YouTube with news reel …
One of the complaints made against the excerpts of my novel, posted on Facebook, was that i mentioned “songs that people are not familiar with.” Granted, this person is in my age group and quite a few people, of my generation, refuse to listen to any music made before 1981. So, here is a playlist …
The cafeteria in the Student Union was an adequate place to escape the snow and cold on that Thursday. Winter had struck the Ozarks with a hateful vengeance, as it had done in the rest of the United States. Everyone seemed to be in the mood for hot coffee and soup for their lunch. They …
In the novel, there are things in the background that drive the characters. Mykel wishes to be able to prove himself and rub his success in the face of his former classmates from Lemming Pond. With Clint, the dark specter of being drafted and going to Vietnam hangs over his head. The dark specter that …
Most of the characters that inhabit Mykel’s life in the radio business were either modeled after someone I worked with or are a composite of people I have worked with in the radio industry. The two exceptions would be Saul Ketner, Mykel’s boss, who had been an actor during the Golden Age of Radio. He …
NEW NOTE: I’m happy to report that this sneak peak chapter has received several hits, according to the stats provided by WordPress and Jetpack. I noticed that in my haste to post this in time for Valentine’s Day three years ago, I had some typos, as well as I have since changed the name of …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 