Brian Posehn
Monday, September 24th, 2012
After seeing Rob Schneider’s act and discovering that the Funny Bone comedy club in my own hometown of Beavercreek was hosting some banner names, I started scouring their website to see if there were any other comedians that I wanted to see. Turns out there was one coming up right away, so I booked a solo ticket to see Brian Posehn on Thursday, September 6, 2012. So off I went again for a nice evening to myself, enjoying a pretty decent bleu cheese burger, a Dr. Pepper, and an evening of comedy. Read the rest of this entry »
Empty Nest was a sitcom that did a magnificent job of eluding me all through its seven-year run. And the fact that it has never been released on DVD doesn’t help either. But as the consummate sitcom fan, I am well aware of the series, which was a spin-off from The Golden Girls. And thus, when I had the opportunity to meet a pair of members from the cast, I opted to go with a photo of the show to get jointly signed. The star of the show, Richard Mulligan, passed away in 2000, five years after the show ended, so sadly I will never get him to sign my photo. I had actually met 
OK, it was either those lead-in lyrics or “Watchoo talkin’ ’bout?” as the title of this posting – and that one’s been done to death. But still it never fails to make me smile a bit, because Diff’rent Strokes was one of the earliest prime time sitcoms that really captured me. I won’t even bother to wax philosophical about what it taught the Gen X’ers about race relations, drugs, pedophilia, smoking, kids in wheelchairs, kidnapping, and epilepsy during some of its ‘very special episodes’ that it was famous for – because somehow through all the seriousness it never failed to make me laugh and feel right at home in the Drummond residence.