Uncle Al
I have a tendency to call Aleister Crowley, Uncle Al. I think of him fondly, though I know he was more than a bit of a fuckup in life and kind of a bastard. I can look beyond that. And so I call him Uncle Al, but most people I know outside of Cincinnati don't understand the double entendre that I'm driving at. At least they never let on if they do.
What are you talking about Fritter?
I'm talking about one of the longest running children's programs in television history, The Uncle Al Show.
See, growing up near enough to Cincinnati and being of an age I remember watching Uncle Al and Captain Windy on television for years. And they were my younger years and the last few years of the show's history.
Uncle Al was very much like Captain Kangaroo in that there were songs and people in costumes and cartoons and toys and the peanut gallery of kids who came to be on the show. Uncle Al was a Cincinnati legend.
I just found out like 5 minutes ago as I was beginning to write this that the Uncle Al show was the record holder for longest running children's program on television. It was broadcast for 35 years from 1950-1985. Surpassing Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers and Sesame Street just barely surpassed it last year.
And it was picked up and broadcast nationally by ABC television in 1958! I thought it was just a local show. But no, apparently there are lots of children out there who watched Uncle Al.
Wow.
So, here I am, a product of children's television programming and a practicing occultist, conflating the accordion playing, smiling man of my childhood with the Beast.
And I smile.
What are you talking about Fritter?
I'm talking about one of the longest running children's programs in television history, The Uncle Al Show.
See, growing up near enough to Cincinnati and being of an age I remember watching Uncle Al and Captain Windy on television for years. And they were my younger years and the last few years of the show's history.
Uncle Al was very much like Captain Kangaroo in that there were songs and people in costumes and cartoons and toys and the peanut gallery of kids who came to be on the show. Uncle Al was a Cincinnati legend.
I just found out like 5 minutes ago as I was beginning to write this that the Uncle Al show was the record holder for longest running children's program on television. It was broadcast for 35 years from 1950-1985. Surpassing Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers and Sesame Street just barely surpassed it last year.
And it was picked up and broadcast nationally by ABC television in 1958! I thought it was just a local show. But no, apparently there are lots of children out there who watched Uncle Al.
Wow.
So, here I am, a product of children's television programming and a practicing occultist, conflating the accordion playing, smiling man of my childhood with the Beast.
And I smile.