KMOB — MORE EPISODES

THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Live from Sal Palumbo’s Pork Store, New York City, 1958

What if the mob had its own public relations firm and radio broadcast station? What if it’s all out in the open, the way it is with today’s corruption? Crime in broad daylight.

I quite intentionally did not release these episodes to the general public. I’m not making fun of the mob, I’m laughing with it, but real comedy is no joke. My sole aim is to honor the profession.

I had many occasions in my very young days to interact with mobsters, because my grandfather paid them plenty to get his garments out of the factory and to market, and his friends got him prized boxing tickets at Madison Square Garden, which they now call “MSG”, like the seasoning.

I’ve been working on these additional episodes — I find them funny and satirical and full of parody and jest, and I intend to preview them with you at this morning’s workshop on zoom, see you there! Continue reading →

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KMOB — THE VOICE OF ORGANIZED CRIME

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THE MUSHROOM THAT ATE TIMES SQUARE
A Danny Marino Mystery
By E.J. Gold
New York City, 1958

The first mushroom appeared on a Tuesday.

By Thursday, three men were dead, a Broadway theater had been evacuated, and the United States Army was preparing to invade the basement of a delicatessen. Continue reading →

THE MINKEES

THE EXPANDED ALBUM

An E.J. Gold Musical Production

More songs. More harmonies. More Minkees than anyone reasonably expected.

There was a time when popular music was young, innocent, exuberant, and just a little bit ridiculous. Guitars jangled, tambourines rattled, drums thundered, and everybody seemed to be having the time of their lives.

The Minkees have captured that time, put it in a bottle, shaken it vigorously, and let it loose again. Continue reading →

THE BARBERSHOP SONGBOOK

124 Performances. 62 Songs. One Very Important Decision: Yours.

An E.J. Gold Musical Collection

Welcome to the biggest little barbershop quartet competition you ever attended!

Inside this extraordinary collection are 124 performances of 62 different songs, each presented in two distinct versions.

Why two different versions of each song? Continue reading →

YOU CAN’T EAT GOLD

Why Dark Chocolate May Be Worth More Than Silver in a Crisis

Everybody knows what to do when civilization collapses. Buy gold. Buy silver. Buy precious metals. Put them away somewhere safe, and when the banks close, the electricity fails, the credit cards stop working, and the dollar becomes worthless, you’ll be ready.

Ready for what? Continue reading →

ARE YOU AWAKE ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU’RE ASLEEP?

A Brief Examination of the Human Condition

Almost everybody believes they’re awake.

This is understandable. Their eyes are open, they’re walking around, they’re talking, they’re eating breakfast, and occasionally they’re even making sense.

But being conscious of your surroundings is not quite the same thing as being awake. Continue reading →

THE ACTIVE OVERMIND

Wake Up to a Larger Existence

YOU ARE ASLEEP.

Not asleep in bed. Not in the ordinary sense of horizontal sleep. No. Your eyes are open. You walk, talk, think, feel, make decisions, and go about your daily life and it all seems so real, so solid, so dependable.

But the reality is that you are stone asleep. Continue reading →

Got a new way to market my fashions, as you can plainly see. I can re-pose my models and maybe even animate them. Continue reading →

THE TRIPPERS

The Psychedelic Songbook

23 Excursions Beyond the Ordinary

An E.J. Gold Musical Production

THE MUSIC THAT ESCAPED FROM THE SIXTIES

There was a brief period in the history of popular music when absolutely anything seemed possible. Continue reading →