A STORY FOR HALLOWEEN 3
or, The Story of Old Smeller
by Luke Blanchard
Old Smeller came to live with the Mills family when Hobby was five. At first he was so savage they had to bind him to a post with a chain. He howled with rage and strained at the
Read more…I bought a MMPB of the most recent Sue Grafton mystery in her Casey Malone series , W IS FOR WASTED , indulging myself in advance in anticipation of another hospital stay (a week-and-a halfish after the last one) .
I have moved to Olympia , Washing
Read more…For those of you who don't remember, I'm a big music fan. I'm also a big music video fan. In fact, I send a weekly music video that I think is pretty cool to a mailing list. While I don't think there'e too many folks interested, if you are, just se
Read more…Past week and a half I see more and more Halloween stuff in the stores, I've seen Halloween decorations around houses, has this gone from just a non-holiday event to a season?
Read more…...beastly !
Tea pom da bomb ???????????
(Apologies to the shade of Ogden Nash ~ Now , before I get to the " Higamous hogamous " one...........)
www.komonews.com/news/local/exploding-pot-pop-removed-from-three-marijuana-shops-278467461.html
And
Read more…I was out yesterday and doing some house hunting, plan on moving in about five to ten years, and I saw this place http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/50-Lang-Pond-Rd-Wolfeboro-NH-03894/92818343_zpid/ A nice place on Mirror Lake in the Lakes region of
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Hi. My name is Tim Lawrence and I was the Creature Shop supervisor for Ghostbusters 2. I have kept a few things over the years and here is a link. Thanks for the look! ~T.~
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171331085398?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984
Read more…Hi, friends! I wasn't around last week because I was off on vacation, leading up to my 25th wedding anniversary today.
Read more…For those of you who do not know, my father Joseph Portelli died last week. He was 80 years old, in bad shape and went to his Maker in peace. I was and still am both grieving and grateful. I miss him yet am thankful that his pain is over. All the cer
Read more…What with everyone reading the old comics and myself listening to the Thin Man while I drive I realized that we are seeing and hearing a lot of stuff that no one ever hears anymore. In the Thin Man people go to 'Speaks' and if someone is drunk they a
Read more…For those interested, Project Gutenberg has posted the very first issue of The Fantasy Fan, from September 1933 amongst its public domain offerings.
The debut fanzine (long before the term was coined) features contributions from: Julius Schwartz, Mor
Read more…Hi, all.
I was scheduled to lead the The Bi-Weekly TPB discussion on Good as Lily last week, but was hit with multiple computer issues -- Windows was slow to load, slow to act, crashing more often than the Indy 500, giving me the Blue Screen of Death
Read more…O Capn' , on occasion when I journey to your employer's page , I see reference to the Com'l Apel as being a " Mid-South " paper , that is the phrase it uses for the area it covers .
Just now , I noticed an ad for a chain of tanning -arlors on the C
Read more…A few friends and I filmed a new show for YouTube called Heroes & Hops. It's a monthly review show where I talk comics, beer and everything in between. The first episode turned out fairly well but we have ideas to fine t
Read more…To-day is the 55th anniversary of the Buddy Holly , and 3 others , -killing plane crash of 1959 .
In Yahoo! (I know . I know .) , entering " Buddy Holly plane crash " will put on the top , a rather dry listing in the Lubbock , TX paper of Holly-mem
Read more…Any Hall of Fame is bound to be at least partially subjective, especially one in the humanities. An athletic Hall of Fame can at least aspire to a veneer of objectivity based on statistics. But an artistic Hall of Fame falls within the province of
Read more…I spotted a flyer for it today in my LCS. www.collectiondx.comsrgm
Looks more like collectables than comics but I thought I'd mention it.
Read more…For someone who is ostensibly on spring break I'm doing a lot of school work. For a court paper for my law class I had to visit a court house and as part of the report I have to write down what I thought. I remembered from one of the Foundation b
Read more…I had to take the car in today and having to spend a day in Boston I went to the Museum of Fine Arts and walked around a bit. One of the paintings caught my eye and brought to mind a question that probably can't be answered but I know that there are
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