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The persistence of the Love Comics image , Pop , and , " cool " Andy and Roy !!!!!!!!!

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

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Ray Bradbury

Obituary   And somewhere, a Rhedosaurus weeps...

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Children's series books .

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

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Haiku

Cold for late April,

Probably I should find out

Where I left my hat.

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PULP ARK 2012

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

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I Remember ...

... when The Baron was Bizarre.

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Easter Monday in Scotland Question

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?

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Say, Have Any of You Jokers Actually Read Any of These Stieg Larsson Books?

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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Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'm wearing my green fedora, for Dora!

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SODA !

Okay , I'm going to do something I've thought about doing a long time , a thread for " soda/soda pop/fizz " , whatever , concentrating , anyway , on such beverages ( & related ??????? to be worked out in use , I guess . ) .

  I've hesitated a little

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Blatant Self-Promotion 2.0

(Deleted the old thread as I didn't want to clutter the board.)

If anyone is curious and would like a free pdf of the introduction and first two reviews in my opus, The 100 Best Movies Ever Made ...Mostly Suck, e-mail me at satanism@hotmail.com ! Hey

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you out there who have found true love!

 

 

The Baron honors your love, and urges you to celebrate it in all its truth, beauty and diversity, wherever it may take you...

 

 

...and he urges you to remember just this o

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fans of ERB may be happy to discover (as I just did) that Fall River Press has begun issuing reasonably-priced paperback collections of the Tarzan and Mars series (3 volumes of each in print right now), with a 1-volume collection of the Caspak novels

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SOPA, PIPA, and the Internet Blackout

A LOT of American based Internet companies (including Google and Wikipedia) are planning to take tomorrow "off" and go dark in order to protest two pending bills in Congress.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) from the House of Representatives and the

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Priceline Negotiator to Die

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/priceline_companies/index.htm?source=cnn_bin

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Rogers & Hart and Spider-Man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you were trying to put a topical reference to the " SPIDER-MAN " musical into a new recording/performance of Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart's song1920s song " MANHATTAN " where earlier versions have references to:

1920s much-disliked by the self-des

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Happy Christmas 2011

Well, we're heading to a mountain resort for Christmas today - think subtropical rainforest, rather than a snowbound ski chalet - so I probably won't be able to post much from there. So this is just to say Happy Christmas one and all. Thanks for bei

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Happy New Year...

...ya poor dopes!

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The Baron's Christmas Music, Volume One: Track List

Side A:

1)A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer

2)You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft (It should be illegal for anyone else to sing this song. I've never heard anyone else do it justice.)

3)Snoopy's Christmas - The Royal Guardsmen (A favorite

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William Shatner’s “Seeking Major Tom”

"In the year 1969, intrepid astronaut Major Tom was launched in a tin capsule atop a glimmering rocket into the vast reaches of extraterrestrial space. Halfway through the mission, the Major exited his floating ship and was never heard from again. Wh

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