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Friday, October 21, 2022

Woof Woof!

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  Scary Books, Kiddies! The Wolfen .  By Whitley Strieber.  Bantam Books, 1979. Copyright 1978. This, Strieber’s first novel, made a splash...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Poe Little Me

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This survey of American horror master Edgar Allan Poe appeared in the September 1, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes . See you on Friday, fellow ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Don't Wait for Midnight!

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 As you can read on the CD cover, this is my 20013 Halloween comp. It was linked with an outdated host. Brought back from the grave, here ar...
Friday, October 14, 2022

A Halloween Book!

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Scary Books, Kiddies! The Halloween Book .  By Jack Maguire. Berkley, 1992. I bought this slim tome at the south OKC Albertson’s on Decem...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

The Movie with Such Possibilities

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The 1983 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's stupendous chiller  Something Wicked This Way Comes  had so much  going for it -- most notab...
Monday, October 10, 2022

2010 Called, It Wanted Its Anthology Re-Upped

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  Yep, the  2010 Spook-Tacular  was dead.  An ex-comp, if you will.  When I learned the link had died, I opened the crypt and cleaned things...
Friday, October 07, 2022

A Scary Look Behind Aich-Pee-Ell

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Scary Books, Kiddies!   Lovecraft:   A Look Behind the “Cthulhu Mythos.”   By Lin Carter.   Ballantine, 1972.   Cover art by Gervasio Gall...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Color Herman Munster!

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I dare ya! Or the house ... Of course, these are from the 1964 coloring book ... See ya!  Sorry to be late!   
Monday, October 03, 2022

A Comp Every Monday for BLOG-O-WEEN!

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 Yep, all this month we're going to post new Halloween comps, and re-post a couple whose links have gone dead. Going dead ... what a con...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

WELCOME TO BLOG-O-WEEN 2022!

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Be here every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for spooky or fun things with a Halloween tilt! Here's one of my costumes from around 1964. ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Were You There?

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On February 20, 1983, ABC-TV presented the first broadcast of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Above is the two-page ad in TV Guide . Did yo...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Star Trek Makes You Smarter

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We already knew that! But now we have the National Enquirer  to back us up!  (That's the December 14, 1993 issue.) Of course, you could ...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

STAR TREK V -- Directing and a BROTHER Brother?

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  The above two images are from the June 9, 1991 Oklahoman . ... And so are these!  All from the same ish, flailing about to get people to s...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Two Articles on STTMP

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They're both from the January 6, 1980 Tulsa World .  As we know to our disgust, Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent score did not win the ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

A Bedtime First

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This December 1989 clipping from the Tulsa World 's supplement TV News  elucidates a "first" which isn't that big a deal....
Monday, September 12, 2022

When TV Guide Was Semi-Relevant

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Here are the pertinent (that is, Trekkian) pages from the July 24, 1993 TV Guide : And to round off the post, the above image is the readers...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

We All Swell Over Time, Even Scotty

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This clipping is from the February 11, 1983 Tulsa World .  And I was there, at Tulsa Star Trek '83, as previously chronicled  here  and ...
Monday, September 05, 2022

"Take One," Please!

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I'm pretty sure that I picked up a copy of TAKE ONE  -- "The Video Entertainment Newspaper" -- at Kaleidoscope, OKC's mos...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Welcome to TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS 2022!

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Yup, all this month I'll be sharing stuff out of my three-volume scrapbook set. The above squib is from Frederik Pohl's 1979 book  T...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Another of My Heroes!

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This all-too-brief survey of comedy god Mel Brooks is from the April 22, 1974 Newsweek .  Its excuse is the success of Young Frankenstein ....
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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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