Ken Plume

I’ve reached the age where any ache or pain is met with, “Does this mean I’m dying?”

And the answer is always, “Yes. A little bit. Every day.”

I hat typos.

Vintage comic book ad to "Make Money Customizing Cars, Vans, Cycles, Inside & Out!" selling a path for enterprising souls to pursue a career in the growing groovy vehicle customization market.

When the dream was THE DREAM, man.

Vintage comic book ad for Evel Knievel Towels

“Mr. Knievel - Hear me out. Towels. Kids love towels. Kids love you. I want to put *you* on TOWELS. *And* I can guarantee a full ad campaign. Sign with me, and we’re going to be RICH!”

Cover of the DC 1978 Calendar Of Super-Spectacular Disasters, featuring an illustration of Superman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Batman, and Wonder Woman in space trying to pull a planetoid away from the Earth

Nothing quite says “DC Comics in the late 70s” than putting out a calendar where every month is another disaster...

My photo of a Jar Jar Binks action figure, holding his atlatl with boomer weapon like a microphone, posed as if he's singing into it like a microphone

🎶 Regrets? Meesa have a few... 🎶

Vintage Spider-Man comic book panel showing Peter Parker, worried look on his face, standing behind a partially open Men's bathroom door with the caption "... REPEAT, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!"

From that Spider-Man comic where Peter Parker couldn’t stop Doc Ock thanks to a dodgy oyster...

Portion of a Marvel Comics "Bullpen Bulletins" news page, featuring a photo of Louise Jones (soon to be Louise Simonson) wearing a cowboy hat, with the text: "And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... As promised last month, I'm proud to present a bona fide picture of Louise Jones wearing the dreaded hat! Ta-da-a!"

Flashback to a time when Marvel’s monthly Bullpen Bulletins page could have a multi-month saga about staffers wearing a hat. I miss that weird Marvel clubhouse feel to the books where you felt the presence of, and could appreciate, the staffers behind the scenes...

Director: “Eat your fries in such a way that would really drive home that you have all the fries in the world because you are well off and this poor urchin looking upon you is not.”

Quick correction on this, as the WHAT’S MY LINE panel was only blindfolded for questioning of the celebrity mystery guest - They were not blindfolded during the segments with regular folks. These are the kinds of mistakes that happen when you type faster than you think. 🤦‍♂️

Quick correction on this, as the WHAT’S MY LINE panel was only blindfolded for questioning of the celebrity mystery guest - They were not blindfolded during the segments with regular folks. These are the kinds of mistakes that happen when you type faster than you think. 🤦‍♂️

Jim Henson with a performance of "Bein' Green" on WHAT'S MY LINE, in less than ideal circumstances, delivering the warmth, charm, and sincerity that are a hallmark of Henson as a performer when he'd lean into a song like this...

Here’s another example of Jim Henson very casually presenting Kermit as a puppet being performed, with zero preciousness, trusting that the audience can both know the trick & appreciate the performance of it, because the character is the focus.

Jim Henson appearing as the Mystery Guest on WHAT'S MY LINE (a classic game show where a blindfolded panel would ask a guest questions to try & guess their occupation, w/ each episode also having a special guest whose identity they would attempt to suss out) in 1974...

Photo of a vintage 7-Eleven Slurpee cup featuring an illustration of Paul Williams

Photo of a vintage 7-Eleven Slurpee cup featuring text about Paul Williams: PAUL WILLIAMS After years of paying the requisite "dues" Paul wrote "We've Only Just Begun" in 1970. The song has been recorded by more than 100 artists and is one of the standard love songs of the current generation. Paul has gone on to write a number of million sellers. In addition, he has become an accomplished singer with many top albums and actor, starring in Phantom of the Paradise."

Did you know that Paul Williams was once featured on a 7-Eleven Slurpee cup? Well, now you do...

Vintage comic book ad for "California Angel Forks", which was a kit used to extend the front wheel of a kid's bicycle a few feet in front of the handlebar

From the looks of it, Angel Forks will give you Angel Wings...

Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher talking about the writing of “Rainbow Connection” for THE MUPPET MOVIE...

Photo of a small sticker promoting the film MONKEYBONE that was once stuck to an actual banana

THINGS YOU DIDN'T ASK ABOUT BUT I'LL TELL YOU ANYWAY:

I have the sticker from a promotional MONKEYBONE banana (an actual banana) the studio sent me nearly a quarter century ago still stuck inside my desk...

Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

This is the most accurate representation of @gailsimone.bsky.social’s feed that I’ve ever seen…

Inspiring you to embrace YOUR DESTINY has become MY life’s work.

Listen - It’s up to YOU to bring the McDonald’s shared cinematic universe together… I can think of no better life’s work for you to pursue…

Director: “Eat your fries in such a way that would really drive home that you have all the fries in the world because you are well off and this poor urchin looking upon you is not.”

My work here is done.

Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

Photo of a small sticker promoting the film MONKEYBONE that was once stuck to an actual banana

THINGS YOU DIDN'T ASK ABOUT BUT I'LL TELL YOU ANYWAY:

I have the sticker from a promotional MONKEYBONE banana (an actual banana) the studio sent me nearly a quarter century ago still stuck inside my desk...

One day, I’m going to write an album titled FROM SOUP TO NUTS, and the first track will be “Soup”, and the last track will be “Nuts”, and I have to do this because the idea is *just too good*, and no, YOU need sleep. I'm FINE.

This is the most accurate representation of @gailsimone.bsky.social’s feed that I’ve ever seen…

Vintage Spider-Man splash page featuring various images of Spider-Man in epic battle with the Kingpin, punctuated only by massive sound effects, with a single caption in the lower left saying "Sometimes we actually know when to keep our big mouths shut - Marv & Keith!"

Now *this* is how you comic book...

Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher talking about the writing of “Rainbow Connection” for THE MUPPET MOVIE...