Bleak Holiday, Plasma and a Winking Leopard

Finally - at long last - the unanticipated sequel to The Membranous Lounge that no one asked for! Behold, Bleak Holiday!

There are some people that hate this cover but me, I like it.

Bleak Holiday

Dig it today!

 PLASMA

Plasma in the driveway

Plasma on the grass

Plasma on the bus seat

But Plasma has no pass

Plasma in the shopping mall

Staining all the gowns

Plasma being ushered out

Of ugly, angry towns

Plasma is my beverage

Plasma is my hope

Plasma is my Parson

Plasma is my Pope

And when I’m dead and buried

With Plasma in my grave

I’ll seep into the soil

No longer Plasma’s slave 

Aw, I think the leopard likes you.

Dink

Obituaries from Yesteryear

      I wouldn't take that cotton candy, kid.

“Happy” Herman Halperin, local children’s TV host, dies at 52.

Herman Halperin, who followed a thirteen year career as a beloved children’s television host with controversy, drug abuse, bouts of mental illness, and two arrests, died at St. Simeon Memorial Hospital yesterday. He was 52.

Happy Herman’s Ha-Ha House debuted on WGZR, channel 8, in September 1955. Hosting the show from a memorable art-deco set designed with sharp-angled walls, crooked doors, and askew windows that looked out on leering cartoon faces, Happy Herman gave many Clearhaven children their first exposure to Popeye, Woody Woodpecker and The Little Rascals.