Halloween Cartoon Countdown: Day 4

Day 4 of the Halloween Countdown!

And a trailer for a classic scary film that's maybe not given the respect it deserves: The Legend of Hell House with Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowell among others!

Halloween Cartoon Countdown Day 3

Here is the latest new Halloween Cartoon in the Countdown and another treat at the bottom!










So, what is it about clowns that is so scary? They used to be the happy, go to Birthday party entertainers not to mention stars of the Big Top! It used to be that zombies, werewolves, vampires and mummies were the standard bad guys. The news is now full of creepy clown sightings.  Maybe next year, instead of "Zombie Walks" they'll start doing "Creepy Clown Parades". It's an idea whose time has come!


Moving on from creepy clowns to just classically creepy, the incredible Billy Butler, the Seacoast's own Lin-Manuel Miranda and a group called the Madmen of Oopsy Daisy (and how great is that name!!) have a review of Billy's music  Bitter Pill at the Player's Ring in Portsmouth, NH, that is a must see for anyone who loves great music, brilliant actors, musicians and singers and brings them all together with puppets (great and memorable characters in their own right!) and spectacle and an atmosphere that is also a one of a kind theatre going experience. It's on through Oct. 30, so if you live in the area don't miss it!

Halloween Cartoon Countdown Day 2

It's Day 2 of the Halloween Cartoon Countdown! A brand new Halloween cartoon every day until Halloween!

And...TONIGHT is also the return of the Walking Dead! What an exciting Countdown! Here's the  trailer!

2016 Halloween Cartoon Countdown # 1

Can it be? This blog is coming alive again after an extended period of dormancy ( or as we like to refer to it gardening, which consists of: planting, weeding, growing, watering, weeding, watering and then harvesting our HUUUGE garden!).
So, that being said ... I will post a brand new Halloween related cartoon every day from now until Halloween, and, if I get a chance, will include a new mini-graphic novel! Here is # 1!

And, because I don't have a lot of time this cartoon was also posted on the brand new Six Chix website! More on that later! Plus lots of other things!



Mother's Day 2016

I come from a line of mothers who were best friends with their daughters. I don't have a lot of family photos from my growing up years as they seemed to have been lost in a move. Hopefully I will be able to find them some day. I do have a collection of photos that my Mom, Goldie Rosen Hammerling, took back in the 40s and 50s. She was a great photographer who took and developed her own pictures and also knew how to look fabulous and glamorous in the ones taken of her.

My grandmother, Rebecca Rosen, was also very put together. She and my grandfather immigrated from Russia. My Mom was born in Indiana and grew up in Brooklyn. My Mom and Grandmother used to laugh and sit at the kitchen table and talk over coffee or the much rarer occasional glass of red wine.

My Mom and I also laughed a lot. She taught me to love books and film and theatre and museums and flea markets from the time I was very young. My parents were very cultured so I learned to love the city and still have great affection for NYC. When I brought home my first kitten from Gouz Farm, when I was 5, and hid it in the closet because I thought my parents wouldn't approve... she turned out to have been a secret cat lady without realizing it and loved cats the rest of her life.
Having my own daughter, the bestest daughter of all, was the best thing I've ever done! We have the best of times and I was able to share all the things I learned to love from my Mom. And things we shared together like the Gilmore Girls and bagels and lox and French fries, the perfect Mother's Day food!

Plus she gives the BEST Mother's day presents! I mean, who else would ever know to give me a lunch bag filled with images of Little My from our most favorite series the Moomin books by Tove Jansson? So, here's to Moms everywhere! Have a fabulous day! May it be filled with Moomins!

Happy Easter 2016

Every year I play around with the character of the Easter Bunny. This year... I tried something a little different. Hope you enjoy it!

32 Songs that say Happy Birthday Nico!!!

Happy Birthday, O Bestest Daughter Nico! Here are 32 MEANINGFUL songs to be your own personal and most fabulous soundtrack for the day!
No Myth" by Michael Penn

   "Machine Head" by Bush


 Ian and Sylvia "the Renegade"




"Legend of Jesse James" with Johnny Cash and Levon Helm



Hair

Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

Shane MacGowan "Haunted by the Ghost of Your Love"
Soul Asylum "Runway Train"



Johnny Cash "A Ceiling, Four Walls and a Door"
Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places"
Todd Snider "I'm an Alright Guy"


the Kinks "Low Budget"

Mojo Nixon "Elvis is Everywhere"
Tracy Chapman "Fast Car"


Pancho and Lefty

Trisha Yearwood "She's in Love with the Boy"
The Doors "Love Street"

\George Harrison "Here Comes the Sun"
Len "Steal My Sunshine"

Nico / Velvet Underground "Femme Fatale"

Steve Goodman "Roving Cowboy"


Blur Song 2

Lit "My Own Worst Enemy"

Everclear "Santa Monica"

Gogol Bordello "Start Wearing Purple"

Geoff Berner "Maginot Line"

Moxy Fruvous "King of Spain"

Carol King "Where You Lead"
Wheatus "Teenage Dirtbag"

Aladdin "A Whole New World"
Rent "Light My Candle"

David Francey "Broken Glass"



And, finally, a bonus track of the Beatles, reuniting from the UK and the Great Beyond to sing a special Happy Birthday, Nico! (you just have to hear that instead of Saturday Club!)!