See Gates McFadden in this 1983 National Enquirer ad: I don’t remember this particular ad, but I do remember the campaign!

Mark your calendars! If you’ve been following my selling of my CD collection, you know that Creature Features has been kindly handling...

I was a big comic-strip fan as a kid. When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. The first strip I was...

When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there...

I am enjoying the new season of Picard. The first episode opens with the above card, which is an homage, of course, to Star Trek II: The...

There’s a new piece in The Guardian getting spread around on social about composer assistants and the terrible working conditions. Check...

Here is something I’ve had cooking that is super exciting! Normally I would not say anything, but Jonathan Frakes briefly mentioned it on...

A few people have written to ask if I’m still selling CDs from my personal collection. Yes! We had a very busy couple of weeks when the...

Greetings, friends! So I did something that you’re probably not supposed to do, and has no point other than I was interested in doing it....

I caught up with The Menu and really enjoyed it. It’s a wicked send-up of fine dining and snooty rich people (something that’s definitely...

I woke up this morning to the sad news that Gerald Fried died on Friday, February 17. He had just turned 95 on the 13th. Please see Jon...

My thanks to my pal Frank DeWald who shared these metal versions of classic Rózsa themes. I think it’s cool!

My thanks to Mark Farinas at TrekComic.com for making the above—outstanding! I am looking forward to watching the Picard season three...

I can’t blog about anything because I’m doing something at my computer that takes hours, if not days. I hate these “vague tweet” like...

Whoa! Dominic Sewell Music on YouTube is going through the entire John Williams score for The Empire Strikes Back with reductions and...

I know nobody comes here for my take on sports—but yeah, what a lame finish to what was heading to the climax of a terrific Super Bowl...

Miklós Rózsa fans will want to check out this interview with Daniel Robbins, who has written his memoirs (yet to be published), Memoirs...

During summers in the early to mid 1990s, I worked at a grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard while also doing the earliest newsletter...

One of the coincidences you learn as a die-hard film score fan is that John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith have birthdays the same week in...

Farewell to one of the all-time greats, Burt Bacharach, who has died at 94. Here’s Tim Grieving’s obituary from The Washington Post. I...