Saturday Is Steakday!

The following presentation is made possible by a grant from the fine folks at Bonanza-

In what would appear to be a souvenir from an elementary school field trip to a local Bonanza restaurant, we follow Tommy & Susie (who, in spite of the under title lead status billing and Tommy's rather depressing career aspirations, don't appear to be of any more importance to the plot than any of their other black & white classmates) as they scope out what goes on behind the scenes at every-70's-body favorite steak house chain. Now if I ever did go on a school trip to Bonanza I have no memory of it. The only field trip I can ever remember going on was to Monticello. We went to Monticello seven or eight times a month every single freakin' month for the twenty or so years I was in school. I am so damn sick of Monticello I can't even tell you and yet the only thing I can even remember about the place is that so-called "genius" Thomas Jefferson invented a clock that was so big that it not only spanned an entire entrance hall, but hung down through the floor and into the basement! I mean they had smaller clocks even back then didn't they? What's the point Mr. Declaration of Independence?



"As for you, Miss Carter... your debt to the Company has been repaid in full. Leave this place now and speak not of what you have seen here!"



Even for a six-year-old this is a pretty half-assed attempt at coloring. I've shamed myself today.





"Hey, Broilerman!"

"Hey, Earl!"

"So... 200 steaks an hour and they're all done just the way we want them?"

"Yeah really, right?"






"Bonanza loves kids... is a cookbook!"


Wait... illustrated by who now?

The Old Maid & The Circus

Bring Me The Hat Of Fargo North!

Woolly Crap!

Yeah, it's been awhile. I hadn't meant to neglect my poor old blog, but my intentionally idle May turned into an unexpectedly overwhelming June in which a new job was begun, a new house was moved into and an old car decided to become less and less reliable with every passing day and many, many other things quite apart from this blog had to be put to pasture for a bit. Also, I bought the 3-disc Target exclusive edition of the Dreamgirls DVD and I've been watching that a lot recently...

But there was an upside to a bit of the past month's craziness... during my move I stumbled across bucketloads of really keen stuff that I'd forgotten I'd ever even owned... coloring books, stickers, old board games, kid's mags, Donkey Kong t-shirts and more of the fodder off of which this blog feeds! We'll be in clover for months!

Now, I'll understand if you maybe harbor a few ill-feelings toward me but I'm hoping that today's post will put me back in your good graces... a complete and uncut presentation of the book portion of the Peter Pan Book and Record production of "Fargo North, Decoder, and his Coat and Hat" by Tom Dunsmuir with drawings by Norm Doherty. Nobody can stay angry for long when Fargo North is in the building...

A rare glimpse of Fargo's father, Jeffrey "The Dude" North, who was shot and killed in the early seventies during an unsuccessful undercover operation to infiltrate the Baader-Meinhoff.

How illegal is it to sell a bunch of old coats that someone left laying all over your floor?

And, just as Fargo's quest to find the true killers is only now beginning, so too begins the fun that is to be had here at Plastic Pumpkins during the month of July as I, in a pathetic attempt to win back the hearts and minds of all of the peoples of this world, vow to bring you a new post each and every single day (or at least every other day... maybe every third day...) until at least the first of August! How's that for a mea culpa...

And you, and you, and you... you're gonna love me!!!

Waaugh Bless America