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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Is It a Silly Place?

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Camelot 3000 was DC's first maxiseries. I bought its original run. Written by Mike Barr and drawn by Brian Bolland, IT WAS EPIC! This...
Monday, January 17, 2022

The New Yorker Surveys Tolkien Fever

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This is from the January 15, 1966 issue of The New Yorker .  Fifty-six years ago, they were on the pulse of fantastical delights.  You are f...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Tales of the Hollow Earth!

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This is the text of an article from the zine Bizarrism , issue 6. I also inserted the illos from the article into the text. Tales of the H...
Monday, January 10, 2022

The Adventures of ... Ampersandman!

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Direct from the May, June, and September 1991 issues of National Lampoon , here are his B&W one-page adventures. If you're like me, ...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Library -- Lifeblood!

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If you're a thinking person, access to a library is the lifeblood of your  world, too! Above is my childhood library card, from good ol...
Monday, January 03, 2022

Comics? Crash? Pish-tush! Perish the Thought!

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Let's hope they don't, because they ain't got seatbelts! Anyway, this media meditation is from the January 1 1993 Oklahoman .  S...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Advances for the Year 2000! I Can't Wait!

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In this article from the December 31, 1967 Tulsa World , we'll learn what "the experts" say will have come about in that fable...
Monday, December 27, 2021

A Tyrannosaurus for Christmas!

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From the February 1984 issue of the magazine Working Mother : Beats a hippo any day!  But I imagine either one would necessitate a snowshove...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Over-Completing Songs

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            I suppose I’m the only person who has heard a song and thought that the lyrics were too short.   That is, the song has only one ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

I Want King Arthur for Christmas!

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And you can have him too, if you believe Geoffrey Ashe. This is from the December 28, 1982  Oklahoman . I think Riothamus is a good candidat...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Ah, for the Olden Days of Only a Handful of Earths!

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These two pages are from Amazing Heroes  #36, cover-dated December 1, 1983. Eight Earths ... not a hundred, not fifty-two, but eight.  Ain...
Monday, December 13, 2021

The Eggheads Like MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

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At least, that's what I gleaned from this review in the December 1967 Saturday Review . I even agree with Mike Jahn that Sgt Pepper  isn...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Shoppin’ Silly, the Amazon Way! #5

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We all know that websites, especially sellers, use algorithms to analyze our transactions. They then tailor “suggestions” targeted to our p...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

A Late December!

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Here are the pages for December from the PsychoFLAIRapy calendar. Sorry to be tardy! Those crazy PsychoFLAIRians, as you've noticed, we...
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Monday, December 06, 2021

No CODs for This Shopping List!

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In December 1971 I thought it a neato, keen-o idea to concoct some anarchic kid's demolition Xmas list. Pretty hyperbolic, huh? Check ou...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Get Ready for Some Hope!

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As we get ready to celebrate the greatest gift of all -- hope for everybody -- here's a new compilation of Christmas music.  Here are th...
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Mark Alfred
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
I was born at a very early age, in a hospital to be near my mother. After appearing in productions of both GODSPELL and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in the 1970s, I found a wonderful wife and wrote many love songs to her, but not as many love songs as I write to God my Savior and Redeemer. We have three kids (one of each) -- wait for it -- blonde, brunette, and redhead.
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