By most accounts, the years were not kind to Gil Scott-Heron. Called the “Godfather of Rap” by many, and widely regarded as a pioneer of spoken word music, the composer of the seminal 1970’s talk-jazz piece, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, apparently spent his final few decades of his life in a withering slowdance […]
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I never knew Harmon Killebrew. But I knew Donnie Cieloch. And when I was a kid growing up in Syracuse, New York, in my neighborhood Don Cieloch was Harmon Killebrew. Cieloch (pronounced SEE-lock) was a short, barrel-chested Polish kid who lived just down the street from me. And he wasn’t so much a great athlete, […]
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About M.C.
M.C. Antil is a Chicago-based writer, baseball junkie and self-styled pop culture omnivore who has fed his addictions over the years by successfully holding down a series of day jobs, most notably as a communications and marketing strategist in the competitive and often hyperkinetic worlds of television, new media and professional sports.
