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James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Darn,

Bad timing. I injured a finger on my right (typing) hand this week in "practice" and my status for today's Forum Quiz is listed as "uncertain".

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

EXACTLY!

Timothy Lavelle

To paraphrase:

I root for the Seahawks,

"and anyone playing against the Robo-cops in NE!"

John Maxwell

Fred Clem

Jack,

I believe the plane was Songbird.

David Mitchell

Can someone please tell me what is it going to take to overcome this mad scientist, this evil Dr. Belichick? For the good of mankind and the future safety of our species, he MUST be stopped, I tell ya! 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Jack and Fred,

Jack, correct on all counts. The name of the young man was Clipper King, played by Ron Hagerthy. Fred, yes it was the Songbird.

Jim

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

Got zero on that quiz also, unless I coukd beg just 1/2 point for Sky King ( actress name?).  

You had me going for a minute.  We were at a show last night and one (former) band member who came out to join the group was introduced as "Rowdy Yates!" I'm serious.

And Roy Rogers was absolutely KING. Dad got to meet him with Trigger once when working on Sally Flowers Show.

David Mitchell

Okay Linda,

You can't leave us all hanging here. What did your Dad do? - with the Sally Flowers show, or TV in general?

Frank Ganley

All this cowboy talk, my fav was William Boyd Hopalong Cassidy. Come on a black suit and two six shooters. He was the best till Paladin came along. My favourite show were the cop shows, highway patrol, Broderick Crawford 10-4 10-4 we need a roadblock.. My first introduction to a fat doughnut eating cop. people everywhere solving crime, sky king, Sgt Preston and his might dog king, rin tin tin solving indian affairs, Ramar of the jungle solving native african affair and sickness, even a crime solving helicopter in whillybirds.. they were all the same until cool came to be with Peter Gunn and the best 77 Sunset strip. now there were characters in that one Kookie who solved everything while combing his hair and parking cars, comeoniwannalayya the cabbie who knew everything on the streets. I don't think hollywood is any better today but at least we have 57 channels and nothing on

Lawrence Foster

I recenlty entered a short story contest and got the results last night.  No I did not win, but I got some good feedback on how to improve my writing.   I have posted the story on my web page at the following link.  I was inspired to write this story based on a painting I did and posted last September.  The story I had with that posting was a much shorter version.  When the guidelines for the contest came out I was able to expand the story but still had to keep it under 2000 words.  This link is to the September page only.  If you want to see other posts click on the word "archive" and it reformats the page to make it easier to scroll through all the posts.  Hope you enjoy. 

http://landoflarry.com/post/164911870737/mccracken-hall-miami-university-oxford-ohio

Timothy Lavelle

Hey, Donna,

There is a TV show here called "Better Late Than Never" about four old cats (Terry Bradshaw, Bill Shatner, George Foreman and Henry Winkler) who travel the world together basically making asses of themselves and enjoying each other. Often pretty funny. So this time they are in Barcelona and your city looks truly exceptional. They were there for the ?festival of Saint John? and a few other adventures.

I looked and looked....didn't see you.

Donna, you sure you live in Barcelona???

David Mitchell

Tim,

Seen the same show - kinda fun. Watching them ride the tram way up to a mountian top in Germany (in their Lederhosen) was fun. But with all due respect, I think Donna probaly lives in a nice part of town.

All you "Cowboy experts" - I said before that Roy was cool and Hoppy was great, and I loved Poncho and Cisco, but really, I have to concur with Jack. The lure of riding a bareback, spotted pony in your underwear with feathers in your hair was simply irresistable. And even more so, who could resist the temptation to howl like a wolf and paint stripes on your face? I mean, could it get any better than that? (Rocket ships to outer space? - maybe)

Confession: I actually still have my 25 lb. bow that I used to shoot arrows with in the woods behind my house. Were my parents nuts to allow that? 

Frank,

I heard a great comment a few years back on an NPR interview about TV programming. The guy was a professional TV critic for some news source, and he said this line - "I have been watching TV for 41 years, hoping someday it might actually get good."

James Hamilton, M. D.

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

Dave,

sorry, I didn’t think dad’s job was all that important. He was a musician in the old days and still played music occasionally until 70s. He and his trio played Sally’s show a few times.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Well, this is awkward! Who would have guessed that one episode of a TV series and our BWHS sleuth, Tim would undo my 40+ years of undercover, holed up in Walhalla while convincing the world that I was in Barcelona?!  Of course this is why I always ask friends to let me know when they are arriving in Bcn so I can catch an earlier flight over.  So the cigar goes to T.L., our own Inspector Gadget!  Btw wasn't Henry Winkler the Fonz? 

Jim, I think I need a trip out west (California visits to my sisters don't seem to have helped) to jar my cowboy memories. I do remember enjoying the bantering between the Maverick brothers.  You guys will let us know when we can transition to Philly and Am Bandstand for some serious recollections. I for one need to improve my scores.

Mark Schweickart

Larry -- I liked your story, and your painting for that matter, very much. As for critical feedback I would offer the following:

I think you over-did it with the Jane Austen references. I would suggest dropping the direct insertion into the text the words "sense and sensibility" (twice), "persuasion," and "price and prejudice."  I think keeping the sentence, "It is a truth universally acknowledged...etc" would be more than enough to let us know you (and we) are feeling Jane Austen's presence.

I would also ask you to consider ending the story right after the list of flowers, with perhaps just a simple comment like, "A coy and knowing smile slowly crept across her face." Let your reader suddenly do  a double take, and think, "Is that the ending? What is she smiling about?" and look again at your flower list if he didn't pick it up the first time through.

And finally I would add the father seemed a bit modern in his benevolent outlook towards his daughter. Otherwise I thought it was very well done. Good job.

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Just for you Donna (wherever you are!!).  I loved Bandstand in the late 50s early 60s!  When I would come home from grade school I would faithfully turn it on every day.  After it moved on to LA in the mid 60's I lost interest....probably spending my time studying biology, chemistry and geometry....three of my very worst subjects 

https://youtu.be/w0lsrJ1zz1Q

Timothy Lavelle

Donna,

Your answer had great lyrics but I couldn't dance to it! Sorry, that was one of the common answers given by those kids when they were asked for their opinions after Maggie's cousin, Dick Clark, played a brand new dance number.

To find out after all this time that you have been living in Walla Walla was a nice surprise. I'll bet you grow onions don't you? I know that WW is famous for that. And yes, Henry was definitely The Fonz.

But, WOW, another surprise! To see that you.tube clip with Jim Hamilton doing the bop with a girl that reminded me of someone but I just can't place who. Jim....damn bud, you were a rug cuttin' son of a gun! I can just see you, years later on, celebrating the successful removal of an appendix with a James Brown split in the operating room. Drove the nurses crazy big boy. Testify!!

David Mitchell

Oooohhhh Mary Margaret!

Now that is some real music!

Another little quiz - anybody remember what that first instrumental is?

(Hint - think "outer space")

James Hamilton, M. D.

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Thanks a lot, MM.  Great music, great memories. A lot of us probably learned the names and steps to the latest dances from Justine, Arlene and Joe etc that we could try out later at our sock hops.   Like you I also remember running home from school to watch the program. 

Remember the nuns telling us that for Lent we should give up something that really meant a lot to us? One year I decided to be especially pious and give up watching American Bandstand.  My resolve soon waned and I found myself watching the show but with no music. Of course that was no fun so the volume dial was soon being used occasionally until I decided on something much less tempting to "give up" for the rest of Lent.  I can  now picture myself in the confessional relating this lack of will power to the poor priest..."Bless me father for I have........"  

Jim, I am picking up on a danger of sharing our personal memories and not just our preferences.  Larry, do you have a different memory of who won the IC twist contest?  

Tim, I will send you to soundtrack to my lyrics via carrier pigeon all the way from WalaWala. You may want to wait a while before taking up dancing again though!  Just saying.