By popular demand, here are links to websites, blogs, e-mail addresses, and suggested "google" search subjects that will drive you deeper into the Bad News on the Doorstep experience.
Here they are, by subject found directly or remotely somewhere in the pages of Bad News on the Doorstep ...
A Judeo-Christian Perspective on all in current events and pop culture, ... and some pretty radical thinking as well:
- www.hughhewitt.com
- www.michaelsavage.com
- Imus in the Morning on MSNBC
The world of writing, editing, blogging, loving Bad News on the Doorstep, and meeting my friend and agent, Mike "The Big Canary" Finley:
Doo Wop USA ... Rock 'n' Roll and the sounds of the times, 1953-1963:
- www.doowopusa.org/
- www.popmatters.com
- Joey Reynolds, 710 AM in NYC
- Cousin Brucie
- TJ Lubinsky
- Jerry Blavet
February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died":
The neighborhoods of New Jersey ... www.nj.com
North Newark:
Belleville:
Nutley:
and the rest of Essex County, New Jersey:
- www.uncletonoose.blogspot.com : Random writing about life in Northern New Jersey
Restaurants in the ol' neighborhood:
- Michaelangelo's, 12th Street and Bloomfield Avenue, Newark, NJ; www.michaelangelos.net : "Tell Bobbie Angelo Sr. you read Bad News..."
- The Belmont Tavern, Belmont Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue, Belleville, NJ: "Tell Head Barkeep Jimmy Cuomo that Joe Cervasio said you should ask him for the 'wine list.' (Ouch!!)"
Those from the "mean, and not so mean streets" ... from Bloomfield Avenue in Newark, to the Bog in Belleville, to the Park Oval, ... who have made an impact worldwide:
- Connie Francis
- Joe Pesci
- Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons ( www.the-four-seasons.com , www.jerseyboysbroadway.com , www.jerseyboysblog.com )
- Nicky Melito
- Chuck McCann on the other side of the Hudson
- Frank Vincent
- Mike Geltrude (Mickey Geltrudi in Bad News on the Doorstep?) www.mikegeltrudefoundation.org ; www.melanoma.org ; www.melanomainternational.org
- ... and those who lurk spiritually in the backround of other Bad News on the Doorstep ficticious (?) characters, but who certainly qualify as local "celebrities" who contibuted to the stories ...
Bob Crewe
Bob Gaudio
Tommy DeVito
The historical characters from my book, still larger than life, even though some have already met their eternal reward:
- Dion DiMucci (and the Belmonts)
- Don McLean
- Buddy Hollie
- Ritchie Valens www.ritchievalens.net
- J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper)
- Alan Freed
- Frankie Lymon (and the Teenagers)
- Fidel Castro
- Jackie Wilson
- Bobby Darin
- Louie Prima
The Greatest Generation and more recent heroes:
- Tom Brokaw
- United States Marines
- Vietnam Vets
Timeless advice:
- Oswald Chambers
- Joyce Meyers
- Chuck Colson
Local writing geniuses, or those who write about similar subjects:
- Philip Roth (American Pastoral, and many others!)
- Michael Immerso (Newark's Little Italy: The Vanishing First Ward)
- Adriana Trigiani (Lucia, Lucia for starters)
High School Football in New Jersey:
Barringer
East Orange
Belleville
Nutley
Montclair
Philipsburg
Cornell and Ivy League Football:
- Cornell Football Association
- Big Red Football
- www.cornellbigred.com
- www.ivyleaguesports.com
Wildwood, New Jersey:
- The Biscayne Motel
The resort development industry:
Leadership, Management, and Performance Development
- Ken Blanchard Companies
- www.gallup.com
- www.predictiveindex.com
- www.zigziglar.com
- John Maxwell
Heart Disease:
Service Organizations:
- The Catholic War Veterans
- The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America
Newspapers:
- www.nj.com/starledger
- www.italiantribune.com
- Worrall Publications
- www.bellevilletimes.com
- www.nutleysun.com
Publishers of this genre:
- RiverOak
- Forge/Tor
- Miramax Books
STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. BE PATIENT -- MORE TO COME!
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