‘The Kinetophone: A Fact! A Reality!’ August 11, 2018 // 0 Comments This guy invented everything By Mark Voger, author, “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” Talking pictures [...]
More ‘Dark Shadows’ memes May 19, 2018 // 0 Comments Thank God it’s Frid Day Yep, I’m still sending those “Happy Frid Day” messages to my buddy at the [...]
Jack Kirby Collector #73 January 31, 2018 // 0 Comments I’m thrilled to have a piece in the new issue of Jack Kirby Collector #73, just out. It’s an interview I did [...]
Happy Together 2017 August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments ‘I love the flower girl’ By Mark Voger, author of “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” Maybe it [...]
‘Monstrkyd Manor’ July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments Home for aging monster kids By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972″ [...]
‘Lookwell’ (1991) June 30, 2017 // 0 Comments The Adam West sitcom that should have been I’ve been going down the Adam West rabbit-hole on the web since his passing [...]
Adam West June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments Thanks for making Gotham City safe. I’m very sad today on learning of the death of my hero, Adam West, at age 88 in [...]
Michael Parks R.I.P. May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments One less great actor in the world By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America [...]
Newark May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments Random memories of a one-of-a-kind city By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America [...]
Strange’s fourth Frankenstein April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments When I was a kid reading Famous Monsters some time in the 1960s, I came across an article about movies that mentioned one [...]
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ March 28, 2017 // 0 Comments David Bowie’s videos for “Blackstar” and “Lazarus” — which I saw for the first time a week ago, to fulfill a [...]
Chuck Berry (1926-2017) March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments The first time I heard Chuck Berry was in 1972, over a jukebox in Cafeteria II, one of a pair of huge cafeterias at Cherry [...]
Mexico’s ‘Invisible Man’ (1958) March 1, 2017 // 0 Comments by Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972″ I love, love, love the [...]
‘L.S. Bumblebee’ February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments In, probably, 1975, I bought the bootleg Beatles album “L.S. Bumblee” from a glorified head shop on the boardwalk in [...]
Overend Watts R.I.P. January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments One year and five days after the death of Mott the Hoople‘s drummer, Buffin Griffin, comes the death of the band’s [...]
In search of ‘Invasion Siniestra’ December 31, 2016 // 0 Comments Some day, my dream will come true: To again watch “Invasion Siniestra,” the (very) last film of Boris Karloff, [...]
Lost in 2016 December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments Farewell, Ziggy Stardust, the Green Hornet, Carol Brady … By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky [...]
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (2016) November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments Rifles, confetti canons and candy-cane girls on stilts By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster [...]
John Zacherle (1918-2016) October 29, 2016 // 0 Comments Zach made monster-movie-lovin’ fun By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America [...]
All-Star Super Shock Show October 17, 2016 // 0 Comments The daymare before Halloween By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972″ [...]