January 25, 1966, would be an important day in Mykel Daring’s life. The start of a long up and down career that he would be lucky enough to continue into his seventies, when his colleagues had given up or died. At seventeen, he was just interested in getting college credit and a foot in the …
CHAPTER 11 “Do you think you are ready for that test?” Slick asked Clint as they ate breakfast in the cafeteria Monday morning. “I’m never ready for a test, but I have to take it,” Clint answered. “I drilled you enough in study hall yesterday, you should be able to pass it,” Slick tried to …
In The Dynamic Duo of the Ozarks, there are several references to a discount variety store called Katz Discount City or Katz Drug Store. This was a real chain of stores in the Midwest. There was one in Springfield, Missouri, which was the model for Springville, the settings of the story. Katz began as a …
On this day, in 1966, the television show, Batman, debuted on ABC, staring Adam West & Burt Ward. However, it was not seen in Springfield, Missouri & the Ozarks until a week later, because there wasn’t a full time ABC affiliate in the Ozarks. It was shown a week later on the NBC affiliate, KYTV. …
CHAPTER 10 Clint had informed Mykel that he attended the Ecumenical Center Chapel Service, on Sunday mornings, at the Campus Union auditorium, which Mykel had no qualms with that. He was raised going to church every Sunday morning. Of course, Mykel was used to going with his mother in her Buick Electra to church. This …
Music is important in the Dynamic Duo of the Ozarks. While I write, I listen to the music of that era. Even though I work in radio, I doubt I will ever meet many of these artist, in the playlist in my Ipod and Itunes, while I’m writing. I know that I defiantly will never …
NOTE: This has nothing to do with my novel, THE DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS. I thought I would post this story I wrote last fall, because it takes place at Christmas time. What if all the characters from the famous “story songs” were all together in one large room? A young mother looses control …
Then only time I got to see the Batman TV show, as a child was my parents would travel to Oklahoma to visit my sister. One of the TV stations in Oklahoma City ran reruns on Saturday morning. However, on Thanksgiving. WTBS in Atlanta, which later became TBS, would show the Batman movie. I looked …
In the novel, Mykel’s boss at the radio station, Sol Ketner, had been on a network radio show entitled Stories From the Charnel House. He not only played the narrator, Old Ichabod, the keeper of the charnel house, but occasionally other voices. The show was cancelled after they produced a version of A. E. Van …
The Facebook friend, who said that people wouldn’t want to read my novel, said it would only appeal to “geeks” who like “obscure references.” This is the same person who said nobody would want to read about radio (see the previous post). I realize there are names that appear in the story that younger people …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 