A Load of This

12/17/2024

Yes, notafinga…except for the one you use to order tickets for Peter Billingsley’s appearance at Fort Wayne’s regal and stately Embassy Theatre. Billingsley, who played Ralphie Parker in the film, will sit down on Thursday evening for a Q&A after a screening of the holiday classic. For an interview with Billingsley conducted by Fort Wayne magazine’s regal and stately editor Steve Penhollow, click below…

One part of the mythos of “A Christmas Story” is its lack of initial success. The movie was no blockbuster or barnburner when it was released…

11/28/2024

Pie figures prominently on Thanksgiving. It predominates. It may even preponderate. As a preliminary and a preface and a pretext to eating pie today and perhaps as a preconditioning procedure, here is a preposterous and provocative blog post about a post-pubescent preoccupation with pie. Prepare yourself for a 100 percent chance of pie-prose precipitation. Please pretend I am not peeving and perturbing you.

by Steve Penhollow In the summer of 2023, I went to Clay’s Family Restaurant in Fremont and ate 12 pieces of pie. I don’t mean that I went to Clay’s 12 times and ate a piece of pie each time. I don…

11/21/2024

https://tryasimay.com/2024/11/19/a-bowl-of-red-and-sometimes-brown/

I decided to break my silence about a chili cookoff I attended. There wasn’t really any silence to break, but breaking silence is all the rage in article headlines, even when it’s Gwyneth Paltrow breaking her silence about why she stopped eating bone broth and started using it in colonic irrigation. There is no mention of colonic irrigation in the following blog post about a chili cookoff…at least not in this draft.

Stock photo showing how much chili they probably had before I got there. by Steve Penhollow I arrived in Elwood at 11:50 am on a Saturday, parked my car and made my way to the information booth for…

09/01/2024

My interview will Todd Rundgren, who performs at the Clyde Theatre on September 24:

My interview will Todd Rundgren, who performs at the Clyde Theatre on September 24:

10/06/2023

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/10/06/becoming-jane/

My interview with Jane Seymour, who is in town today for the annual meeting and awards ceremony of Aging & In-Home Services of Northeast Indiana.

My interview with Jane Seymour, who is in town today for the annual meeting and awards ceremony of Aging & In-Home Services of Northeast Indiana.

10/03/2023

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/10/03/welcoming-a-king/

Hugh Syme, the art director for the band Rush, will be at the Honeywell Center in Wabash on Wednesday night to usher in an exhibit of his artwork. For more information and for an interview with Syme, click below:

Hugh Syme achieved great renown in the world of rock and pop music and then moved to Indiana. Usually, it’s the other way around. Syme has illustrated dozens of legendary album covers includi…

05/22/2023

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/05/22/lord-of-misrule/

For more than 35 years, Frank Ferrante has been touring the world with his uncanny evocation of Groucho Marx. He really must be seen to be believed. And he can be seen Tuesday night at the Eagles Theatre in Wabash:

by Steve Penhollow When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, the Marx Brothers were still a conspicuous part of popular culture. The Marx Brothers’ films were frequently shown at odd hours of the d…

03/12/2023

I have started a new blog called “Try As I May.” Read it and you may find that I have tried things. Chances are good. I will try to tell you about trying without being too trying. In this first post, I will tell you about several times I tried Lunar Infusions’ kombucha:

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/03/12/brewhaha/

01/28/2023

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/01/28/khaaaaaaaaannnnn/

An interview of William Shatner by Fort Wayne magazine’s Steve Penhollow. Shatner will answer questions after a screening of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” at the Embassy Theat…

01/24/2023

https://aloadofthis.com/2023/01/23/when-you-least-expect-it-youre-elected/

My interview with Peter Funt, who brings his show, “Candid Camera Unmasked,” to the Eagles Theatre in Wabash on Thursday:

My interview with Peter Funt, who brings his show, “Candid Camera Unmasked,” to the Eagles Theatre in Wabash on Thursday:

01/23/2023

https://www.fortwayne.com/the-full-story/peter-funt/

My interview with Peter Funt, who brings his show, “Candid Camera Unmasked,” to the Eagles Theatre in Wabash on Thursday:

Peter Funt By Steve Penhollow Monday, January 23rd, 2023 Long before wives pranked husbands on TikTok (long before there was a TikTok, long before there was an internet and long before there wasn’t a home computer that weighed less than 16,000 pounds), an unlikely TV host named Allen Funt debuted ...

09/12/2022

https://aloadofthis.com/2022/09/12/a-piece-of-his-mind/

My interview with comedian Lewis Black, who performs Sunday at the Embassy Theatre:

My interview with comedian Lewis Black, who performs Sunday at the Embassy Theatre: