Thursday, December 05, 2024
A New TREK Series? Nah ... Maybe So
Monday, December 02, 2024
December Snippings!
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Thankful for ... ADVENTURE!
Monday, November 25, 2024
Stuffy Views About LOTR
Take a gander and survey this survey. Was this an attempt through stilted prose to win folks over? Was it a quest by a hidebound academic to figure out why his shaggy students were reading this work by a philologist?
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Old News About Supes
Monday, November 18, 2024
Goin' Wildey!
It's either a slip of Wildey's memory or a typo ... but JQ music director was Hoyt Curtin, not "Cartin."
Thursday, November 14, 2024
FINAL WORDS!
In their 2012 book Megacatastrophes!
David Darling and Dirk-Schulze-Makuch rank the likelihood of “Nine Strange Ways
the World Could End.” Least likely? Radical climate change, whether caused by
Mankind or things like solar flares. The
most likely danger, the thing to lose the most sleep over? A pandemic, whether from medicine-resistant
new bugs or old standbys like the plague or Ebola.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
― T S
Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good
special effects.
―
Roger Zelazny
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The
clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded.
He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will
come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it
is a joke.
―
Søren Kierkegaard
Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind.
They just can’t resist seeing how it happens.
―
Cracked.com
Apocalypse has come and gone. We’re just grubbing in the ashes.
―
Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a
butterfly.
―
Richard Bach
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear
explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.
― Jay London
It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or
ice—there are two other possibilities: One is paperwork, and the other is
nostalgia.
―
Frank Zappa
Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where
they cannot be seen.
―
Stephen Hawking
Everything has to come to an end, sometime.
― L
Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
I’m against endings. I’m against things being over. Being finished
should be stopped! I am Comrade-in-Chief of going on. I support furthermore and
etcetera!
― SaÅ¡a StaniÅ¡ić
Somehow the world never seems to end before your homework is due.
― P J O’Rourke
We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is
asleep.
―
Joel C. Rosenberg
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
―
Albert Einstein
Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one .45 caliber
automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations;
one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills,
sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase
book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold;
nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three
pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in
Vegas with all that stuff.
― Dr
Strangelove
There’s something attractive about all those people being gone,
about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and
beans, defending one’s family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks
it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That’s what
after-the-bomb stories are all about.
―
John Varley
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already
tomorrow in Australia.
―
Charles M. Schulz
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact
that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
― Joseph
Campbell
I’m completely optimistic—I know the end is coming!
―
Lydia Lunch
Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
―
Rorschach
Monday, November 11, 2024
I Bought it for This Article
Since I was just past 16 when this came out, I encountered it year later, maybe in Lute's Books in OKC. This is from the December 1973 Penthouse.
How's THAT for fun! See ya Thursday.
Thursday, November 07, 2024
Superboy TV, Part 6 - Logos Great and Small
Remember, this era was marked by physical cutting and pasting of printed material. Hence the myriad sizes!
Monday, November 04, 2024
They Wrote for Superman!
I loved these recountings and summations, especially since at the time I hadn't read everything mentioned. Boy, I gotta get back into the Comics Closet and read a few thousand comics again!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
It's the Time for Gory Musical Glory!
The photos were taken Halloween 1963 at the White House with JFK and kids -- Track 19 is a reference to "Something to Tide You Over" in 1982's Creepshow. The performers of Track 23 are no relation to the TV show, except in name.
02 - Just Another Halloween - The Mutts - 1985 (2:14)
03 - Irving - Johnny Brandon and Irving - 1958 (2:35)
04 - Sneakyville - Secession - 1987 (3:42)
05 - Grim Reaper - The Twelfth Night - 1965 (1:54)
06 - Love in the Cemetery - Lord Kitchener - 1962 (3:28)
07 - Living in a Coffin - Lost Cherrees - 1984 (1:43)
08 - The Raven - Jackie Brooks - 1956 (2:51)
09 - Frankenstein Again - The Lurkers - 1985 (3:59)
10 - Dis-Gorilla (Part 1) - Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots - 1977 (2:57)
11 - The Omen - Shattered Faith - 1983 (2:09)
12 - Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue - Smiley Burnette - 1935 (3:02)
13 - Munsters Theme (live) - The Deadbeats - 1978 (1:51)
14 - Teach Me How to Rock and Roll - The Creepies - 1975 (3:11)
15 - The Robot Walk - Tony Alamo - 1964 (2:44)
16 - The Lakeview Man - The Rainmakers - 1987 (3:00)
17 - 30 Foot Bride - The Tinglers - 1959 (2:07)
18 - Witchcraft Love - Richard Starr - 1964 (2:16)
19 - Deep Black Sea - Left for Dead - 2006 (2:54)
20 - Polka Dotted Poliwampus - Clint Miller - 1958 (2:10)
21 - Flesh to Flesh - Lamont - 1988 (3:50)
22 - Split Personality - Ronn Cummins - 1964 (3:15)
23 - King Kong - Groovie Ghoulies - 1989 (2:10)
24 - Halloween 9 - Stevo In Yr Stereo - 2024 (9:13)
The biggest excitement is saved for last! Track 24 is by my old friend and fellow Mazeppite, Stevo In Yr Stereo, who concocted this truly ghoulish (yet lighthearted) mashup. Find tons of delightful musical bemusements at siysradio.com.
See you on Monday, assuming you survive this night of frights!!!
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