Carolina Ghost Towns

It’s strange how a chance encounter (a true random connection) can bring back a flood of childhood memories.  On one of the discussion forums that I frequent, one of the denizins had selected a new avatar.  I recognized it immediately as one of the purple-wigged "moonbabes" from the television series UFO.  Produced by the team ... Read More "UFO" »

It’s been a quite Friday the 13th.  I figured it would be, but that’s not how the week was shaping up. First there was the graffiti.  Apparently some racially charged messages were left on the wall in a girl’s restroom at Byrnes High School over the weekend.  The graffiti threatened violence, to be carried out ... Read More "Friday the 13th, Part Whatever" »

CNN reports that Bob Denver, who played Gilligan in the 1960 has died from complications of treatment he was receiving for cancer.  He was 70.  Hard to think of him as being that old. In tribute,  once again here’s my four-part fugue based on the theme from Gilligan’s Island.