Showing posts with label Childhood heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Childhood heroes. Show all posts

Thursday, March 18, 2010

RIP Fess Parker

OK, all the cool kids are posting RIPs for Alex Chilton and well he deserves the remembrances. Luckily, I waited until late in the day so I could have Daniel Boone for my own (or Davy Crockett, if you want to back a bit further). Fess Parker, and Ed Ames as Mingo, were a much bigger part of my childhood than Chilton could ever have been. They were on TV.

Moral lessons were learned. Like not hating on Mingo just because he was an Indian Native American. Thanks Fess for being the great role model that you were.

Obligatory You Tube clip:

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A Clip for Truth

Because he doesn’t see the value in being a sheep.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

RIP David Carradine

I’m of an age to have been a big fan of the original Kung Fu series. Carradine always seemed a little off, in a good way. He pulled off eccentric well, something I  aspire to myself. Don’t know why he would have hung himself, health problems maybe, who knows. If it is the case that he did commit suicide, it was his choice and so be it.

Go in peace back into the river of the Tao, David.