Happy heavenly birthday to Richard Dawson!
Category: Sports and Games
Dead Ringer
Everyone who’s been to a movie theater knows that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in third because they always project it as trivia on the screen to keep the audience from killing each other from boredom before the coming attractions start. Hack had one of his frequent mental breakdowns after being confronted by the tidbit yet again before a showing of Madame Web so for therapy, he wrote a novel around the story replacing Chaplin with Jonny M. and revolving it around a Russian plot to kill him and throw his hideously misshapen genitalia into a blender as a final ingredient to their formula for super atomic rocket fuel.
It made Hack feel much better.
Mud Wrestlers
Grand Slam
Here’s wishing Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers the best of luck in Game 2 of the World Series tonight!!!
Murder at the Turtle Races
Blind Man’s Bluff
Happy National Guide Dog Month!
License to Spill
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Sean Connery!
Chin Music
Hack’s cover artist Jonny M.’s buddy Eddie Frierson begins a three performance run of his award-winning one-man show about Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson tonight at Olive Branch Theatricals in Santa Clarita, CA. It’s an unforgettable evening of theater for both baseball fans and non-baseball fans, which Eddies always ends by answering audience questions about the legendary Matty (staying flawlessly in character).
That’s where the story takes a macabre turn because whenever Jonny sees the show (and he’s seen it many, many times), he inevitably takes advantage of the Q&A to ask “Christy” what he thinks of baseball’s color line (which was in effect until Jackie Robinson famously demolished it in 1947). To his credit, Eddie doesn’t attempt to sugar coat his answer but responds to the question as he thinks Matty would have. But Jonny knows that after so many years of him asking about it that it irritates Eddie to give the same response. And that that’s the whole point.
If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend that the whole family can enjoy, you can find details on this weekend’s performances at matty.org. Maybe Jonny will ask about the Negro Leagues and maybe he won’t. But it’s a great show no matter what.
The Seventh Date
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Ingmar Bergman!