The Terrible Catsafterme

The final celebrity that I met at the Hollywood Show in Burbank on Saturday, October 9, 2010, proved to be one of the nicest. It was only after an awkward situation – in true Brady Bunch fashion – reared its head that I found this out. The actor Jerry Houser was never in a single episode of The Brady Bunch – but he did play a prominent role in Brady history. He first became Mr. Marcia Brady – that is Marcia’s husband Wally Logan – in the spin-off TV film and series The Brady Girls Get Married aka The Brady Brides. He then continued the role as Marcia’s incredibly lucky husband in A Very Brady Christmas and the short-lived dramedy The Bradys. Read the rest of this entry »

On September 13, 2011, The Terrible Catsafterme (along with my nephew Adam) turned five years old. It’s been quite a while since I’ve written extensively about the mechanics of this website. While it’s kind of fun to write about such things, it’s not always the most interesting reading. This is currently the 1286th posting. Out of all of these, this is only the third that I’ve dedicated to blabbing about the website. The first one had its merit as it was celebrating the first year anniversary of the site. At that time, I felt like I was a seasoned pro. The second came just six months after that, with the sole purpose in announcing the change of moving from a daily posting to four postings a week. It also speculated that I was about halfway through what I had originally envisioned as a three-year project. This one, as it happens, is here not only to celebrate and reminisce about the first five years of the website – which still isn’t even close to completion, but to point out some improvements I’ve made to the blog. Yes, over the last five years, I’ve made peace with calling it a blog. Read the rest of this entry »

I was honestly never really a fan of “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, who recently became the oldest active wrestler following the retirement of Ric Flair in 2008. I thought that if they were going to have someone ‘represent’ the spirit of patriotism, they could have gotten someone who didn’t seem mildly retarded, carried a 2′ x 4′ around as a weapon, and whose battle cry was the mono-syllabic “Hoooo!” But nevertheless, Jim Duggan has become a wrestling legend and it was nice to meet him when he appeared at the Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago on Saturday, August 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure why the name Tom Savini was so familiar to me. Most likely it’s because I’d hang around the magazine rack at Lofino’s grocery store while my Mom did her shopping in the mid-1980’s and invariably I’d leaf through the latest issue of Fangoria, the light reading devoted to all kinds of blood and gore as seen in the movies. Tom Savini was one of the masters. In fact, Corey Feldman can be seen reading one such magazine in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and an article about Tom Savini is clearly visible – quite an obvious, but neat tribute to the man who had done so much to advance the bloody cause of the film’s perenniel killer. Read the rest of this entry »