My Dad knew some interesting characters. One was Bob Harrington – a writer, jazz aficionado, and raconteur. Kind of a combination of Nat Hentoff and Ernie Kovacs. When we were kids, Dad would bring my ...

The goofy, spoofy radio commercials of Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste (“Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?”) into the stomachs of ...