Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture

Innovations in animation Just watching a Fleischer Studios animated short — such as the ’30s-’40s Popeye, [...]

It’s a party in a pan One day, it hit me: pumpkin funnel cake. What an idea! I would surely be hailed as a pop [...]

April 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

My 2021 pandemic escape By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “Ah, I see the [...]

Philly icon’s movie-star turn I recently did a deep dive into Paul Wendkos’ riveting 1957 noir “The [...]

This place was nuts I recently wrote about an engrossing noir from 1957, Paul Wendkos‘ “The Burglar” [...]

The tour that never was Why would you spend five hours of a cold winter’s day walking? To eat! The Belmar Restaurant [...]

Masked up for merriment Hey, I was on the Dec. 20, 2020 episode of “The Electric Ballroom,” 95.9 WRAT’s [...]

Some readers have started a trend. Okay, it’s a trend nudged along by my brother and sister-in-law. But I’ll [...]

Nothing lost in translation By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” [...]

What’s in a name By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “The [...]

An Interstate 95 classic BLOGGER’S NOTE: Following is my third and final post about my recent trek from New Jersey to [...]

Pecan Log Rolls & NRA propaganda Once you bite into a Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll, you never forget it — for [...]

Boiled peanuts & Trump-Pence Covid 19 was setting new records everywhere … Donald Trump was loudly contesting the [...]

June 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

A history of Christmas in 1:01 PRE-ORDER “Holly Jolly” at TwoMorrows, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other [...]