Look at Nana Go!

Falling is hardly a great experience. Unlike most adults, I recall taking many a “dives” to the concrete and laughing about it! Kids on the other hand! Try and stop them from laughing if they see you fall.

Look at Nana Go!

Nana and I in The Early 90's

After wrapping up two plates of hot food in aluminum foil. Nana would sit us kids down to eat. She’d say, "hurry up and eat now, we have to take Big Daddy his dinner when I get back from “Brah’s”. A heavy smoker, and dying from lung/throat cancer, Brah was my great uncle, Nana’s younger brother. He lived across the street from my grandparents.

Nana expected us to be finished eating and ready to leave once she returned. The drive to Big Daddy’s night job in Hicksville, Long Island was short. He was a steel and metal worker.

It was on one of those days, Nana finished wrapping the plates of food and gave us her speech, “ok, you kids hurry up and eat,” as she walked out the kitchen heading downstairs to deliver her brother’s plate of food.

Then it happened…

Remember The Burger King Commercial?

I thought this was good advertising. Especially back in those days becasue. No fast food join would customize your burger. I hated pickles on my burgers, to this very day, if I still ate burger’s like that I still don’t like pickles on them. I don’t like pineapple on holiday baked ham!!
The fact that BK capitalized on seeing customers did not like certain things on thier burgers and then created a commercial to adress it. Was brillient. And when they used the little boy and the rhyme. that spoke directly to kids like me! The right message, at the right time, to the right audience.

Stephen Stills w/Buffalo Springfield

A member of Buffalo Springfield, Stephen too was a staple in the 1960’s sound of music. Their iconic song “For what it’s Worth,” has been used in radio commercials as well as documentary films. An outstanding guitarist, Stills played guitar on Bill Withers song Aint No Sunshine. His first solo album featured master and legendary musicians Jimi Hendrix’s and Eric Clapton.

Yet, his only big hit song was “Love The One You’re With.” Nana loved this song, its deep gospel roots made it a welcome song in the African American community as well.

Classic TV: Rod Sterlings -Twilight Zone

Many of us have been there at one point or another in life. That place in our brain that blurs the line of reality and weirdness! Rod Sterlings Twilight zone based an entire television show on that concept. You think you’re having an experience that’s real, only to find out it’s a dream. Or, you’re living an experience, you think it's a dream, it's not!

The Twilight Zone aired during a time when people never gave much thought to what’s reality and what’s not. The show played on its viewer's mind. Often you’d walk away wondering if you’re out of your mind, or not! To this day the show has a cult type following. I’m one.