The Blue Parrot

15/08/2025

Buried treasure?

Could be…

Coming in September, back at the keyboard!

06/07/2024

A last night at the ball park.

The Oakland Coliseum. July 5th, 2024. Likely my last time here to watch a game of baseball. It’s fair to say that I am a fan of baseball. Living south of San Francisco for seven years, it was…

10/06/2024

So, you need a steam train for your 1913 movie? What do you do? Here's a story of how you find the solution.

Western Pacific steam locomotive 94 at Olcott on the former Sacramento Northern Railroad. Roger Colton photo. Director David Swift, recalling production of 1960’s “Pollyana” for D…

21/05/2024

There's More There Than You Think.

Just another family, enjoying a day at the Park. It has become amusing to read, see, or hear some of the Disneyland faithful tell that a day at the Park isn’t what it used to be in more ways …

27/03/2024

35 years ago, it was Easter Sunday night.

NBC offered the two-hour premiere of a new drama, “Quantum Leap”.

Somewhere, I have a VHS standard tape on which I recorded it that night.

In the years since, I owe a good deal to Scott, Dean, Don, Deborah, and everyone who brought the series to television for us all to share and enjoy.

It has been a great privilege to meet fans with whom Quantum Leap resonates on so many levels, both in person and online. It goes beyond community in so many ways.

Here is an appreciation I wrote several years ago.

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project known as "Quantum Leap."

27/03/2024

Calling Chicken Little, white courtesy phone, please.

If you read the various new stories, blogs, Facebook or watch various YouTube channels, the impression is that Disneyland is closed. Or, in other words, the sky is falling. Despite Disney producing…

26/03/2024

A bit of the good life, with connections to the past and Colton family stories as well.

It's a story of greed and revenge from beyond the grave! Roger Colton shares a look at the Colton mansion, high atop San Francisco's Nob Hill.

27/02/2024

The rest of the story? Finally.

Now, where was I? Oh, yes… Disneyland. May 10, 2023. A Wednesday, to be exact. When I last left off, we had done the thing that is Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. But as you may know, there i…

27/02/2024

Yes, Still Lurking About...

As Mark Twain may have remarked, rumors of my demise have been exaggerated. I am not lying in the ditch on the side of some rural byway, just diverted along the scenic route, so to speak or type. A…