Scott Paton

Having frequently posted entries on other people's blogs, I finally decided to start posting on my own site. I'm not sure, ultimately, that my professional portfolio will remain the home for these musings, but topics won't always be entertainment-oriented or Grim Reaper in content. Soon I will be moving on to cheerier topics, so enjoy --or don't-- at will. But going "official" such as this will occasionally prompt me to express some things that are best released from the writer's tortured soul. Thanks for sharing in my catharsis!

48 Hours in November 1963 and the vagaries of memory

With the endless media coverage commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination, like many of my generation —and surely anyone who is older–I...

Jan 21, 2023 · 13 min read

Robin Gibb

Barbara Gibb is 91 years old and I can't truly contemplate the notion that she may have to bury the third of her four sons. I'm a huge Bee Gees fan. All th...

Jan 21, 2023 · 3 min read

Jonathan Frid aka Barnabas Collins

In its heyday, it's been reported that "Dark Shadows," the gothic, daytime soap opera of the late-'60s and early-'70s, had an audience of 50 million viewers....

Jan 21, 2023 · 3 min read

Levon Helm

For a total music nut, I came to The Band awfully late in the game. When others were listening to new underground and free-form FM stations, I was glued to ...

Jan 21, 2023 · 4 min read

Dick Clark

It's been quite a week for those of us of a certain age; for me in particular. It’s really not the increasing aches and pains and infirmities of age that ma...

Jan 21, 2023 · 8 min read