Saturday, November 24, 2012

We Finally Arrived!


The latest paperback edition of "The Four Blogger of the Apocalypse" has finally arrived at Amazon.com. This new 2012 version has 98 more pages for a total of 276 pages. Enjoy the text posts of bloggers Fred Fortune, Jonco Bugos, Little Green Man and Baby Boomer Boy as they comment, criticize, lampoon and tell it their way in the four blogs this book is all about: Fred Fortune, Jonco Bugos, Little Green Man from Mars and Random Retro Reviews of the 20th Century. This new edition is also available in Amazon's Kindle Store for only $2.99, the same low price as the previous edition. Who says you can't teach an old "indie" dawg new tricks?

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Hi. My name is Michael Casher and I'm a blog-a-holic.

Hi. My name is Michael Casher and I'm a blog-a-holic. I'm not sure if admitting that is the first step toward a recovery of some kind or just a proud proclamation of some sort. It doesn't matter. I don't blog (now it's a verb) because everybody's doing it. In fact, I'm the kind of person who avoids fads on principle so it's not that. And I don't blog to make money because I never made a dime blogging and don't expect to. So, it's not that, either.

If I made money blogging it'd just be a matter of time before some hospital or medical group billed me for all of it so I'd rather not tempt that kind of negative karma, thank you. And I don't really blog for fun because writing a blog and adding images and links and maintaining sidebars and footers and keeping them active and current and interesting is more of a pain in the ass than anything else. So it's not that.



OK, get ready for the real reason because if there ever was an admission that I hope is the first step toward recovery this is it. I blog for therapy. There, I said it. But, every now and then, I have some fun and sometimes I even have a ball blogging and, you guessed it, Think-A-Holic Lounge is my favorite blog to write. I just gave it a face lift this week and now it looks all spacey and exotic. My favorite blogs to write used to be Fred Fortune, Little Green Man from Mars and Think-A-Holic Lounge but the other two (along with Jonco Bugos and Random Retro Reviews of the 20th Century) got turned into a book called "The Four Bloggers of the Apocalypse" so I basically retired them but keep them "alive" with occasional new image posts or videos.

And you know what? Blogging for therapy is a lot better than running naked through the back yard and screaming, "Why me? Why me?"

Friday, November 9, 2012

One Of My Favorite Popeye Cartoons



The first time I saw this cartoon was on a cathode-ray-tube, black-and-white TV set when I was only four or five years old. It was probably a Sylvania or a Zenith or maybe a Philco. Come to think of it, the TV was probably an Admiral floor model. That would have been somewhere around 1955 or 1956. Back then, I thought this cartoon was really funny but also a little bit scary. One of my favorite things about Popeye cartoons was the way he muttered to himself all the time and his funny, flip remarks to others in the cartoons. Thanks to YouTube and YouTube users, Popeye can be more than just a pleasant memory for all of us.