First of all, please join me in welcoming a new sponsor/content source, an authority on TV and Movie Character Actors of the Golden Age, and lifelong Perry Mason fan, That Guy, Inc.
Have you ever been stumped, trying to tell the difference between Ed Peck and Thomas Browne Henry? Is there a picture of Frank Marth without his hat? That Guy will clarify such matters. More bent than bio, more pointed than pictures, it's That Guy!
Regarding the recent hiatus. It was one of those "accidentally change a setting on a computer, and not be able to tell what happened" things. I was trying to post something a couple years ago, and inadvertently set Blogger to compose only in precise graphic-layout language. How do you make a post with that stuff {?} {insert "$%#@!$"}
So when I was here a week ago, mining the moribund dream of a former life, I thought, "Maybe I can figure that fershlugginer thing out." And I did. One stupid little switch. Now we're back.
I started this blog 16 years ago. There have been various periods of posting, and fallow. I have no illusions of even a large-ish collection of listeners. Ever. But I'm hopeful that weekly posts might find their way to other similarly-inclined fans of the arcane. In whatever time-space they momentarily occupy.
Doing a weekly audio post has been the sticking point; I think I owe you original content, more than repeating other people, or even myself. (With notable exceptions like Mr F Le Mur.) I want to start giving you new audio every week. But if nothing's come out of the oven by Sunday, at least That Guy will be holding down the store with something else equally odd/silly.
New postings start tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.
