THE FLINTSTONE SOLUTION!

The recent gas shortage in Mexico has everybody worried but I finally came up with the perfect solution to beat the ever so scarce fuel!

Thank you, Fred and Barney!

TO BE OR NOT TO BE!

For a while back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, apart from being a cartoonist, I pursued a career in acting with varying grades of success. For the most part, I just landed small roles in TV commercials and an extended stint performing in dinner theaters which lasted almost 20 years until the new millennium kicked in and most of them folded. There was a short period in 1985 where I made it into the cast of a TV sitcom which barely survived for one season. And, apart from brief cameo appearances in two films, my acting ambitions were reduced to doing comedy skits for a radio show which lasted, in various formats, about eleven years.
Luckily, none of those efforts are available for viewing today (except for the films), and thus, the only evidence remaining of my thespian ambitions is a pair of magazine ads where I tried to look somewhat fashionable.

                                                                                                                                                               
                     

                                                                                                                                                              

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Happy Birthday, Oliver Hardy!

Oliver Hardy was born on January 18, 1892 in Harlem, Georgia.  With Stan Laurel, he was one half of the famous comedy team of Laurel & Hardy, active from 1927 to1955. 

He was portrayed by John C. Reilly in the recently released biopic STAN & OLLIE which depicts the pair's last years touring Britain and Ireland. 

At The Crack of Dawn...

As the body becomes older, the joints and bones become creakier and noisier as I've come to realize every time I get up from bed.  Each morning becomes a veritable symphony of onomatopoeia reminiscent of those old Don Martin cartoons from MAD magazine!

The 10 Year Challenge!

There's a new trend going on in Facebook and Instagram which consists of posting two side by side photographs of you, taken ten years apart. The underlining message is, I suppose, to show the world how well (or how poorly) you've aged in those years. Of course, if you are like Benjamin Bottom, the result can be quite interesting, but for the rest of the humans, the sight of showing yourself aging, is not really for everybody.
However, knowing that this blog is rarely seen by others except by myself, I can confidently post my slowly decaying process without hesitation.
So, here's my 10 Year Challenge post hoping I can make it through the next ten years still in one piece!