For reasons I still don't understand, my dad was a big fan of little actors, with Billy Barty and Michael Dunn ('Ship Of Fools,' 'Wild, Wild West') being his favorites. Mr. Barty seemed like the sunnier counterpart to Mr. Dunn's often evil characterizations.
There was the Simpsons episode when Skinner announced to the school that "in the spirit of political correctness run amok, pizza day will now be called Italian-American sauce bread day."
my mother used to mike up a batter of bisquik for pizza. we were little kids and no such thing as a real pizza place existed in the sticks where i grew up. sometimes i'd take a piece of bread add ketchup, velveeta and strips of baloney and stick that in a pan.
I grew up in a working class neighborhood that was a bit like the Lower East Side by the sea. Thrilling! The amount of oddball food combos I had in my life… Like all of them!
You could probably divide the U.S. into Roman city-states based on pizza preference alone. Being from Detroit, a place where seemingly only Greeks were trusted with pizza manufacture, it took some time after I moved to NYC to come to terms with East Village slices. Listening to the Ramones didn't help that much.
2:11pm
Joe R.:
#Wisconsin not a fan of the reborn version on Downer? Just there for the first time last night.
2:13pm
sawsee:
sounds like Rex is ready to start a commune !
2:14pm
Wisconsin:
#Joe R. The original can never be duplicated. I carved a few things in the woodwork at the original.
Liberace came from Milwaukee. Not something we're real proud of.
2:54pm
Brez:
Thanks for another SUPER show, Rex! Perfect for a rainy day's mending -- buttons, snaps and the greasiest sounds around!
2:55pm
juji:
larry stoch, liberace and fay spain in "lemonade jungle"
2:56pm
ScottC:
Just say'n - Living in the Bay Area this is "Earthquake Season". April and October. Bittersweet Spring every year. Ya it's Spring AND THE FREAKING GROUND IS OPENING UP!