So…this is where it all began…

24.3.14 (Ten Years Ago…TODAY!)

My premise (or whatever you call the reason I’m doing this): is, well, because—that’s why!

Seriously, this is just something I’d do when I was bored—there’s only so much music you can listen to before it all starts running together (this was before the internet!)

My main problem—I’ve never written movie reviews.  However, I have graded plenty of music performance reviews and…that would explain why I took so long to do this.  I don’t know the proper form/format (and there is one!) and even if said proper form would be necessary.  All I basically want to do is play the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game with the Three Stooges.  Considering they were active from 1925 to (roughly) 1975, it should be easy enough to find both large and small connections.

In fact, one connection occurred to me at the very beginning—William Shatner!  Here’s another long-timer (even longer than the Stooges at this point!) and it was incredibly easy to connect Shatner to the Stooges in only one easy (cheesy) step!

Alexander (1965 TV pilot)=William Shatner+Adam West

The Outlaws Is Coming! (1965 Three Stooges film)=Adam West+the Three Stooges.

(Also, you get a bonus of not one, but TWO young Shatner photos…I never really thought of him as handsome–I was watching him act, but damn!

OTD in 1966…

Imagine if you will, a time where turntables and dinosaurs ruled the earth (yet the Technics SL-2000 hadn’t yet been invented); the Zombies were on their way to creating THE BEST ALBUM OF 1967 (yes, I can and will fight over this one!); and best of all, the Three Stooges were still appearing every week via their popular Saturday morning cartoons.

It’s a ways off from Saturday morning, however, but there IS this new TV show you’ve read about in the newspaper…”Wagon Train in Space” or somesuch, which looks a little more cerebral than the usual kiddie fare SF junk that populated the screens (big and small) at the time.

Yep, this little show that those in the “know” didn’t put much stock in debuted FIFTY-DAMN-SEVEN YEARS AGO! (this means that my favorite song ever “Tell Her No” by the Zombies was written FIFTY-NINE years ago…) But back to the subject at hand, why did this show stick so well in the public consciousness? What has made generation after generation give the hammiest of Shatner imitations (yet never mentioning that behind all that ham, our young Shatner was definitely a kosher actor!)

I’m not going to go over the many “firsts” the show created–y’all have Google and whatnot for all that. I just wanted to pay yet another tribute to a show that was truly of another age.

Now go out and live long and prosper and whatnot…

How’d I almost forget about THIS?!

No nerd worth their salt should ever forget that today, June 3, 1969, that the last Star Trek episode, “Turnabout Intruder” was aired. If you’d like to see William Shatner at his Shattnerist (on Star Trek, at least!) see this episode.

Think of it–in 1969, the Three Stooges were still touring, the moon landing was little more than a month away, and a couple of months later, a certain Family would be on everyone’s minds.  Interesting time, when you look back on it as history.  As everyday living, I imagine that it was pretty much like today.

Have Gun? Have Rocket? Have Position? Will Travel!

Whether it’s a quick drawing Richard Boone (Google that, kids!) or,

a quickly made, high grossing comeback film, I suppose you could say that being a temp worker can be defined as “Have Position? Will Travel!”  It can give you a feeling of overwhelm, anxiety, joy, exhilaration, and a deep feeling of “Why didn’t I try this before?  What was I thinking?”

If you have held a position at a company for more than 10 years and suddenly find yourself on the outside looking in (aka: unemployed), temping could give you the shot in the confidence arm you so sorely need. (And trust me, you’ll need it!)

Degree of Stoogeration between Richard Boone and the Stooges?  Four.  One of the main writers for “Have Gun, Will Travel” was Gene Roddenberry of “Star Trek” fame.  The star of “Star Trek”? (One of many!) William Shatner.  Shortly before becoming Captain Kirk, Shatner had a starring role in an unsold TV pilot–“Alexander.” His co-star?  One Adam West, who starred in the Stooges’ Columbia swan song, 1965’s “The Outlaws IS Coming!”

Isn’t history fun?