This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Reminds me of back when I was a kid. I was really into the Hindenburg for some reason, even if I didn’t totally understand what it was all about. There was a shop in my hometown that sold little plastic models…
Author: Erich Scholz
Interesting Things
Here are some things that are interesting to me at the moment: 1. Mountain biking with clipless pedals. Haven’t rode in a while. Got all tangled up with scuba thing during the winter. Now that it’s spring, I dusted off the Gary Fisher and put the cleats back on. Been riding around Oak Cliff in…
Diving the Dam
Drove down to Austin this past weekend with the Gibson family for another round of Lake Travis scuba diving. This time, I broke the 100 ft barrier for the first time out on Windy Point. Let me tell you, it was dark, cold and the visibility was shit. But the experience of going beyond that…
Celebrating in Dallas
I haven’t worn contact lenses in almost seven years but I decided to throw my lot back in with the lensed this week. Signed up for an eye exam and I’m wearing a pair of test lenses for a week. Yesterday was the first day and I must admit it was a little bit uncomfortable….
Scuba Weekend…and a Spring Blizzard
Took advantage of my Easter vacation time at work to head down to Austin to do a little diving at Lake Travis. Mike Gibson and I left town around 8pm Thursday night and made our way through the traffic to North Austin where we stayed at Layne and Kendra’s. This was my first time diving…
Rosie’s Views
I must say I’m really surprised at the amount of controversy surrounding Rosie O’Donnell‘s recent 9/11 Truth comments on ABC’s The View, although I’m not surprised about the pummelling she’s taking for them. I never really thought much about ol’ Rosie until she started speaking out on this subject…something that is apparently a no-no in…
Chipmunk Punk
I remember this record back when I was a kid. They had a pretty extensive marketing campaign for it with lots of commercials on TV. “Chipmunk Punk,” for those punters out there who had a hankering to hear some late ’70s-early ’80s Top 40 tunes recorded with annoying, speeded-up vocals. I guess that’s what a…
Sweet!
Zero Hour!, the inspiration for the Zucker Brothers’ Airplane!, is coming out for the first time on home video in June. Now it looks like two, hard-to-find classics from the twisted mind of Serbian director DuĊĦan Makavejev are coming out on DVD the same month. 1971’s “WR: Mysteries of the Organism” — an international film…
Zero Hour!
Finally, fans of the film Airplane! will be able to see the true origins of the ’80s comedy classic when Zero Hour hits stores this June. The 1957 film, starring Dana Andrews as “Ted Stryker” has never been released on home video so this DVD, part of Warner Brother’s “Camp Classics” collection, will be a…
Scuba Doo
Greetings, Earthlings. I’ve been pretty busy the past month. I’ve spent the past three weekends scuba diving…actually, I just got certified last weekend in San Marcos at the former Aquarena Springs. I know, it’s weird…scuba diving in the winter. I thought I’d get a jump on the summer mayhem but a bunch of other people…