SUMMARY: Often considered. never reprised -- until now -- it's the return of the Name Chain and, after more than 20 years, Mike Dewey invites his faithful readers to go with the flow once more.
Back by not-so-popular demand -- for the first time since the summer of 1991 -- it's the Name Chain.
"Love It to Death" ... Alice Cooper ... Alice Kramden ... "Alice in Wonderland" ... the White Rabbit ... Jefferson Airplane ... Thomas Jefferson ... the Declaration of Independence ... "Almost Independence Day" ... Van Morrison ... Jim Morrison ... "Riders on the Storm" ... "Riding the Storm Out" ... REO Speedwagon ... Speed Racer ... Danica Patrick ... St. Patrick's Day ... Green beer.
"The Green, Green Grass of Home" ... "You Can't Go Home Again" ... Thomas Wolf ... Tom Wolfe ... "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" ... Ken Kesey ... "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" ... Randall Patrick MacMurphy ... Jack Nicholson ... Jack Nicklaus ... Tiger Woods ... Tony the Tiger ... Frosted Flakes ... snowflakes ... Christmas Eve ... the Grinch.
Boris Karloff ... Boris Badenov... Rocky the Flying Squirrel ... Rocky Balboa ... "Yo, Adrian" ... Yossarian ... "Catch-22" ... "Catcher in the Rye" ... Holden Caulfield ... "Field of Dreams" ... Shoeless Joe Jackson ... Jackson Browne ... "Brown Sugar" ... Sugar Ray Robinson ... "Mrs. Robinson" ... Simon and Garfunkel ... "Simple Simon Met a Pieman" ... "American Pie."
Buddy Holly ... the Hollies ... "Bus Stop" ... "Stop, in the Name of Love" ... "A Love Supreme" ... John Coltrane .... John Lennon ... "Strawberry Fields Forever" ... the Strawberry Alarm Clock ... "Incense and Peppermints" ... Peppermint Patty ... Charlie Brown ... "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" ... the Cincinnati Reds ... Pete Rose ... Gypsy Rose Lee ... "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves."
Cher ... "If I Could Turn Back Time" ... Timex ... John Cameron Swaizee ... Cameron Crowe ... Nancy Wilson ... Heart ... "Magic Man" ... Manfred Mann ... "The Mighty Quinn" ... Mighty Mouse ... Captain Kangaroo ... the Captain and Teninille ... "Love Will Keep Us Together" ... keep on truckin' ... the Grateful Dead ... "Uncle John's Band" ... "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
Napoleon Solo ... Hope Solo ... "Hope is the best of things" ... "The Shawshank Redemption" ... Morgan Freeman ... Morgan Fairchild ... "Search for Tomorrow" ... "Look Out,Here Comes Tomorrow" ... the Monkees ... Mike Nesmith ... the Stone Poneys ... Linda Ronstadt ... "Love Has No Pride" ... Charlie Pride .. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" ... Johnny Depp.
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" ... Moby Grape ... Moby Dick ... Dick Nixon ... Watergate ... Carl Bernstein ... Yvonne DeCarlo ... Fred Gywnne ... "My Cousin Vinnie" ... Cousin Itt ... Carolyn Jones ... Brian Jones ... "Paint It Black" ... the Black Album ... Prince ... "Little Red Corvette" ... "Little Red Riding Hood" ... Sam the Sham ... Sam Shepard ... Son of Sam ... "Son of a Preacher Man,"
Dusty Springfield ... Dusty Rhodes ... the Cleveland Indians ... Sudden Sam McDowell ... Sam Malone ... Moses Malone ... the Ten Commandments ... Thou Shall Not Kill ... O.J. Simpson ... Ronald Goldman ... Ronald Reagan ... the Gipper ... Notre Dame football ... Joe Montana ... Dwight Clark ... Dwight David Eisenhower ... David Bowie ... "Ziggy Stardust" ... Ziggy Marley.
Bob Marley ... Marley's Ghost ... Charles Dickens ... "Oliver Twist" ... Oliver Wendell Douglas ... Eddie Albert ... Albert Pujols ... the St. Louis Cardinals ... the Gateway Arch ... Archie Bunker ... the Meathead ,.. Meatloaf ... "Bat Out of Hell" ... Batman ... the Riddler ... Frank Gorshin ... Frank Sinatra ... the Rat Pack ... Sammy Davis Junior ... Junior Walker and the All-Stars ... "Shotgun."
"Shot Through the Heart" ... Bon Jovi ... Bon Scott ... Mary Queen of Scots ... "Beam Me Up, Scottie" ... Captain Kirk ,... Captain Queeg ... Humphrey Bogart ... "The Big Sleep" .... "Sleeper" ,.. Woody Allen ... Woody Hayes ... Woody Harrelson ... Ken Harrelson ... the Boston Red Sox ... Carl Yastrzemski ... "The Impossible Dream" ... "Don Quixote" ... Don Coreleone.
Marlon Brando ... "A Streetcar Named Desire" ... Tennessee Williams ... Tennessee Tuxedo ... Don Adams ... "Get Smart" ,,, "Get Shorty" ... Elmore Leonard ... Elmore James ... James Monroe ... Marilyn Monroe ... "Some Like It Hot" ... "Hot Fun in the Summertime" ... Sly and the Family Stone ... "Family Ties" ... Michael J. Fox ... "The American President" ... Annette Benning ...
Annette Funicello ... Frankie Avalon ... "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" ... "Wild Thing" ... the Troggs ... "Love is All Around" ... "I Get Around" ... the Beach Boys ... Dennis Wilson ... Charles Manson ... "Helter Skelter" ... the White Album ... "White Room" ... Ginger Baker ... "Baker Street" ... "Where the Streets Have No Name" .... U2 ... Francis Gary Powers.
Gary Gilmore ... Norman Mailer ... Norman Bates ... Anthony Perkins ... Perkins Pancake House ... "The House of the Rising Sun" ... New Orleans ... Katrina ... Katrina and the Waves ... "I'm Walking on Sunshine." ... "Sunshine Superman" ... Clark Kent .... Lois Lane ... "Penny Lane" ... "Almost Famous" ... the Black Crowes ... Kate Hudson ... Goldie Hawn.
"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" ... "Laughing" ... the Guess Who ... "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" ... Spencer Tracy ... "Inherit the Wind" ... the Scopes Monkey Trial ... Charles Darwin ... "The Evolution of the Species" ... the Galapagos Islands ... Southern fulmar ... "Southern Cross" ... Crosby, Stills and Nash ... Bing Crosby ... "White Christmas" ... "White Wedding" ... Billy Idol.
Billy the Kid ,,, Kid Rock ... "All Summer Long" ... "Summer's Almost Gone" ... "Gone With the Wind" ... Margaret Mitchell ... George Mitchell ... the Mitchell Report ... Jose Canseco ... Barry Bonds ... Gary U.S. Bonds ... "Quarter to Three" ... "1-2-3 Red Light" .... the 1910 Fruitgum Company ... "Chewy, Chewy" ... the Ohio Express ... "Expressway to Your Heart" .... the Soul Survivors ... the Rolling Stones ... "We Love You."
Mike Dewey can be emailed at CarolinamikeD@aol.com or snail-mailed at 6211 Cardinal Drive, New Bern, NC 28560.
