Kakahead

Well here we go on vacation again.  A long drive to see Aunt Nancy, Cousin Peter, and of course Cousin Rocco.   And yes we really do have a Cousin Rocco…

“Ken,” my boss will say,  “some people are beginning to drive me a little crazy.”

Of course,  I ask him with my best Long Island accent:  “you want I should cawl my Cuzzin Rocco??”

We’re a bit smarter than when we were “kids” in our 20s or 30s… we don’t travel the whole 700 plus miles in one day.  We take our time, spend the night about half way, wake up refreshed and continue on.  Gonna stop at IKEA along the way this time, but that will still give us time to relax at the hotel in Youngstown.

The radio can get boring… the news gets depressing and the music is often the same old stuff.  Of course you can find some neat things on the dial but there are times when you’d just like to pop in a CD and enjoy the ride.  So as I write this I’m burning some discs to keep us entertained. 

Keep in mind, I’m a dinosaur.  I was born millions of years ago when radios and televisions had tubes inside them and you had to wait for them to warm up.  I consider myself privileged in this regard, though.  When I was growing up, entertainers like Abbott and Costello, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy (to name a few) were not only appearing in old movies on TV, they were still alive.

So, my lovely wife and I still love to hear the old shows every now and again.  Fast forward to the internet, where free copies of many of these old shows are available for download.  No cursing, no explicit sexual innuendos, just good clean fun. 

Because I’ve got much to do to get ready for the trip; I’m going to make this Happy Friday!!! short and sweet… but here are a few samples of what the masters did in “the good old days.”

Did you know that 7 x 13 = 28? Lou Costello proved it!



I remember being smitten by the remarkable Carmen Miranda at a very young age…