Dave Zook

@davezook.bsky.social

Woke Trump despiser. Bernie/AOC/Elizabeth Warren Democrat. History buff. Enthusiastic student of pop culture from the Beatles to Chappell Roan, Tom Wolfe to Tom Robbins, and Excalibur to Rocky Horror. Blue Sky is full of fascinating folks, but I don’t chat

The 20 biggest donors this cycle have spent $2 BILLION on the midterms, the overwhelming majority of which has gone to help Republicans. In the entire 2008 cycle, the last before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Warren Stevens (born today in 1919) exuded authority, no matter the role. One of the founders of the famed Actors Studio in NYC, Stevens might be best remembered for playing Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet (1956), but he appeared in dozens of other films & television programs. Stevens passed in 2012.

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Artist Steve Ditko – a legendary creative force at Marvel Comics – was born today in 1927. He contributed much to the development of Spider-Man – & is credited with crafting the complex Dr. Strange character in the early 1960s. Ditko marched to his own beat but had time for his fans. He died in 2018

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Investigative journalist James Ridgeway was born on this date in 1936. He took on a variety of targets – from university administrators & trustees to polluting corporations to violent skinheads. He spent much of his professional life attacking the use of solitary confinement. Ridgeway passed in 2021

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“If never I met you; I’d never have seen you cry; If not for our first hello; We’d never have to say goodbye” Kiss released the single “Hard Luck Woman” on this date in 1976. Written by guitarist Paul Stanley (with drummer Peter Criss singing lead), “Hard Luck Woman” peaked at #26 (pop) in the U.S.

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