Oct 21, 2001 11:45pm pst
I created the first TV Guidebook Parody in 1968, while in High School, and since I lived with my parents, the content, although somewhat risqué for the time, in light of the fact that my mother read everything I wrote, and did not have the most open of minds, was highly censored.
By 1977, my parents had died, I lived by myself in the South Bay, and I had just been fired from my first “career” job as a department head at Ole’s Home Centers in Torrance,CA. I even had to attend an”unemployment compensation” hearing because my bosses at Ole’s maintained I had worn a “dirty shirt” to work, and was firing me for dress code violations.
In reality, I was being fired because I happened to party with workmates in my department on Friday and Saturday nights, take lots of drugs, including marijuana, LSD, and cocaine, and although I was always ready for work at the time at which I was expected, my friends and coworkers sometimes were not, and hence there was a general “housecleaning” and the bottom line being I was fired.
I used my free time to, among other things, create the Magazine Parody of TV Guidebook 1977.
The humor is sarcastic and cynical, attempting to derive laughter from dead baby jokes and spiraling drug references. The “readers” who saw this in 1977 were suitably impressed, and got all the jokes.
Now, with the capability of the internet, I am going to present the entire magazine in jpeg format on this website. Anyone can view the madcap humor I possessed in that faraway time of 1977, one year after the Bicentennial, and the very year both Star Wars and Close Encounters of The Third Kind were released, and coincidentally the year that Elvis Presley died, as well.
Enjoy this little diversion.
Michael F. Nyiri
Poet, philosopher, fool
Entire contents copyright 2001 Michael F. Nyiri