About 12 years ago I was work­ing at the Book­stop near the Inwood the­ater in Dal­las and it was my first real job out of col­lege. I was a super­vi­sor there, and one of the things we would do, and if you’ve been into any Barnes & Noble you’ll know this, was put out staff […]

School­house Rock, the series of 41 car­toon shorts that used catchy tunes and rep­e­ti­tion to teach kids watch­ing Sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toons about math, Amer­i­can his­tory, gram­mar and sci­ence, began as a brain­storm of David McCall when, in 1971, he noticed that his son could sing pop­u­lar song lyrics but couldn’t han­dle sim­ple mul­ti­pli­ca­tion tables. His […]