Tad's Happy Funtime

By the time  The Cosby Show   premiered in 1984, I was already a huge fan of Bill Cosby from his comedy albums. I don't remember when I ...

Her name was Ruby Bridges. I didn't know her name when I was a kid, but I can't count how many times I saw the stock footage of he...

When Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in 1987, I was a happy boy. My first contact with Trek had come when my parents took me to ...

When I was a kid, I had the whole set of  ValueTales  books - a series that paired up historical figures with a cartoon sidekick and told th...

In 1974, when I was barely two years old, my mother bought a record: the soundtrack to the motion picture The Sting . I grew up hearing tha...

This past semester, I took History of Music in the U.S. with Dr. David Cosper at Towson University. For your enjoyment, here is my final arg...

Warning: spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War are suffused throughout this post.  I sat in the theater watching the superheroes of the Mar...