On track for Christmas
The Train Doctor in Ocean, NJ By Mark Voger, author ‘Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture’ With the holidays chuggin’ ’round the […]
Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture
The Fleischer influence
Innovations in animation Just watching a Fleischer Studios animated short — such as the ’30s-’40s Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman cartoons — one senses that […]
Party Mix meatloaf
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 […]
Thank you, A-Yeon
My 2021 pandemic escape By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “Ah, I see the YouTube algorithm has brought us, […]
John Facenda (1913-84)
Philly icon’s movie-star turn I recently did a deep dive into Paul Wendkos’ riveting 1957 noir “The Burglar” starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield, which […]
Planters Peanuts store
This place was nuts I recently wrote about an engrossing noir from 1957, Paul Wendkos‘ “The Burglar” starring Dan Duryea and Jane Mansfield, which was […]
Belmar Restaurant Tour 2021
The tour that never was Why would you spend five hours of a cold winter’s day walking? To eat! The Belmar Restaurant Tour — besides […]
‘Electric Ballroom’ (Dec. 20, 2020)
Masked up for merriment Hey, I was on the Dec. 20, 2020 episode of “The Electric Ballroom,” 95.9 WRAT’s Sunday night rock ‘n’ chat show […]
‘Holly Jolly’ photo gallery
Some readers have started a trend. Okay, it’s a trend nudged along by my brother and sister-in-law. But I’ll take it. This week, I’ve been […]
Stephanie Stuckey
What’s in a name By Mark Voger, author “Holly Jolly: Celebrating Christmas Past in Pop Culture” “The challenge I face in taking over the […]
South of the Border
An Interstate 95 classic BLOGGER’S NOTE: Following is my third and final post about my recent trek from New Jersey to Florida. Finally, there was […]
Stuckey’s then and now
Pecan Log Rolls & NRA propaganda Once you bite into a Stuckey’s Pecan Log Roll, you never forget it — for better or worse. There […]
Barreling down Interstate 95
Boiled peanuts & Trump-Pence Covid 19 was setting new records everywhere … Donald Trump was loudly contesting the 2020 presidential election … it was an […]
‘Holly Jolly’ book trailer
A history of Christmas in 1:01 PRE-ORDER “Holly Jolly” at TwoMorrows, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other outlets. My genius-filmmaker nephew, Ian Voglesong, has created […]