I just happened upon an old edition of Phillip Wylie's Gladiator -- a 1930 novel that was one of the inspirations for Superman. (It's the 1957 Avon edition... and I got it for $1.50!) I'll be reading it soon, and I'll let you know what I think!
Read more…A STORY FOR HALLOWEEN
by Luke Blanchard
I have hated my mother for a while. I’m forty, unmarried, and live with her. She is overweight, bad-tempered, and very demanding. In recent years she has increasingly come to resemble – please pardon the cli
Read more…In UGLY THINGS 60s-oriented music magazine/deluxe fanzine recently , which I bought when I bought the stuff I mentioned on the " Genre Magazines ' thread , there was an ad for the company re-releasing 10 Ventures albums from the 60s on CD and colored
Read more…Not to be a buzzkill, but -- weirdly -- this site is very much a part of my memories of Sept 11, 2001.
I live in the Central timezone, so by the time I got into work, things had already started happening. We didn't have a TV in the office (we wound
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I was just six at the time of the Moon landing. I remember watching it on the TV. I'm not sure I quite understood the significance of it all, but I knew that it was important.
A piece created by the Belgian artist G
Read more…I just got an email claiming to be from Captain Comics with this message:
Hello Dear, I will like to get acquainted with You, I have something Special to share with You, Contact me via email nellynkaba@hotmail.com
How are criminals getting my email add
This was posted today on facebook about Mark Pennington:
Mark passed peacefully in his sleep last night at 4 am. Almado a good friend came and sang at 6pm and he fell asleep. He had just gotten a big new comfy bed and we had a chance to hold each oth
Read more…From The Hollywood Reporter: " 'Encyclopedia Brown' Creator Donald Sobol Dies"
Even before I discovered comic books, the "Encyclopedia Brown" series fed my love of reading. Before I discovered Ed McBain and the 87th Precinct police procedurals, I fou
Read more…We've been on this board for a while now. We've had some old friends leave and some new ones jump on board. For a while now I've noticed some tension popping here and there in various threads. It might be due to personal differences or lack of enthus
Read more…From the Disney World parks blog today. I really want members of the Avengers to do the "Please, stand clear of the doors" announcements on this one.
In addition to Cap's excellent suggestion about starting threads on comics we like, I'd like to throw out a challenge too: more fun threads!
I can think of a few already on the go: threads about Dark Shadows and Dr. Who come to mind. No doubt great
Read more…So, is this Greek election going to destroy the Eurozone, or what?
Read more…http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/
Above is a link to an article in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS .
It is an article titled " Real Cool " by Martin Filler .
You gotta scroll down this contents page a little to get to it ( the link t
Read more…I bought a Nancy Drew book - specifically A Nancy Drew Files(TM) mass-market paperback from 1991 , #60 in the series , " Poison Iv- " , uh , " Pen " - Yeah , that's right , " Poison Pen " , by good ol' Carolyn Keene ?
What do you have to say about
Read more…Over the weekend of April 20-22, I was an invited guest at the second annual Pulp Ark convention in beautiful Batesville, Arkansas, sponsored by Pro Se Productions.
Of course, Pro Se is also my publisher, so that goes without saying. ;-)
In any event
Read more…My desk calendar reads as follows: "Easter Monday (Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, UK - except Scotland)"
So, what's up with the Scots that they don't take Easter Monday off?
Read more…My "Unread Books" pile is down to around twenty, so I'm getting antsy that I'll run out of things to read in the next few days, and these books look like potential candidates for future reading material. I'm not so much interested in the film(s) rig
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