Tripping With Marty

Okay, time to unveil, Tripping With Marty. Check it out, the first post just went up! Just click here-------->Tripping With Marty.

Blog Announcement

Okay, i wrote yesterday that there’s going to be some changes coming up here and here’s what’s happening. I really want to do a blog where I go out and live blog every day. However, this after dark format just isn’t going to work for this new style of blogging. For one thing, most people are asleep or offline when I go out at night and while it’s still fun to look at the photos the next day, I think it’s a lot more fun for the audience if they can follow me live for the most part and watch the updates unfold in real time. So “Marty After Dark” is going to be coming to a close in a few weeks and then I’ll announce the new blog. I’ll continue to post here, but it’s just going to be random stuff and videos, as I’m going to be busy putting this new blog together. It’s always challenging building a new blog, as I’m not a technology guy, so it’s like starting from scratch each time I start a new one.

It’s funny, every blog I’ve ever done has led to another chapter. I started out with The Marty Wombacher Show which morphed into A Guy Walks Into 365 Bars which in turn led to Marty After Dark. All of them have been fun adventures and I think the new idea could possibly be the most fun one of them all.

I want to thank everyone who reads this blog from the bottom of my heart! I really can’t tell you how much it means to me to know that people take time out of their day to come here and I hope you all follow me into my next blog adventure. I’ll be announcing it in a couple weeks right here, so continue to check back when you can. As I said, there’s still going to be some random silliness every day until the announcement, which I’m thinking will be in about two weeks.

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P.S. If you’re not on my mailing list and would like to updated via email when the new blog goes up, please send me your email address and I’ll add it to the list. And now, it’s off to work building the new blog!

Good Afternoon—January 1, 2012

Happy New Year’s Day to all of you! I’m taking the night off since it’s a holiday. Tomorrow I have an announcement here about some changes that are going to be happening here. So check back for that if you want to, in the meantime, here’s hoping for a great 2012 for all of us!

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Bonus Photos by Gene Rubbico!
Gene and Smoopy were out on the town in the BBC’s hometown of Baltimore last night celebrating New Year’s Eve and he sent in some photos of the fireworks there last night. Great photos, Gene, thanks for sending them in!

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Happy New Year everybody! Thanks so much for your friendship and for reading and supporting this blog all year. I hope everybody has a great 2012! Cheers and the best to all of you!

New Year's Eve—11pm

Okay, I’m stuffed with snacks and beer, let’s check out some Twilight Zone related videos on YouTube!











And for Gidget, “A Stop At Willoughby.”

Beers consumed during this hour: I”ve stopped counting. See you at midnight!

New Year's Eve—10pm

Snack Item of the hour: More crisps with the cheddar cheese slices and salami.

Twilight Zone Episode: “The Midnight Sun”
Starring: Lois Nettleton and Betty Garde
From season three, episode ten.

As the earth hurls out of orbit, straight into the sun, Norma and her neighbor, Mrs. Bronson try to help each other through the ordeal.

The streets are deserted as everyone tries to avoid the inevitable heat-stricken doom by heading north.
Finally the two break down as the heat and nerves continue to rise.

Just as the record temperatures continue to jump...

Norma wakes up out of a feverish dream. She remarks to Mrs. Bronson how nice it is to have darkness and cool air. She's relieved it was all just a nightmare.

In her fevered state, she doesn’t realize that the earth is still out of orbit, it’s just headed in the opposite direction, in the Twilight Zone.

Beers Consumed in the Hour:
Two 16 ounce cans of Budweiser.

New Year's Eve—9pm

Latest snack item: Onion crisps with port wine cheddar cheese spread, dusted with chili powder, half with salami, half without.

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Beer Consumed in this hour:

One 16 ounce Budweiser (hey, I’m pacing myself!) See you at ten!

New Year's Eve—8pm

First snack of the night: Toasted sourdough bread squares with melted cheese and salami and topped with a dollop of Sandwich Pal Mustard.

And this hours Twilight Zone recap!

Twilight Zone Episode: “What You Need”
Starring: Steve Cochran and Ernest Truex
From season one, episode twelve.

This is street peddler, Pedott, a man who has the unique gift of selling people exactly what they need to improve their life. Moments after he sells people items, they're lives change for the better.

Two-bit punk and hood, Fred Renard realizes the peddler’s talent and begins harassing him to give him what he needs to change his rotten life.

He demands to know what he needs and thinks he finds it by the look on Perdott’s face when he picks it out of his sales case.

Sadly he finds out sometime Pedott the peddler sells people what he needs, instead of the other way around, in the Twilight Zone.

Beer Count For The Hour:
Two 16 ounce cans of Budweiser.