Today's instalment of Blog-o-Ween is simply a little fragment of verse, from an eleventh-grader who has OD'd on Edgar A.
It's an in medias res situation: You're waking up from a nightmare, no doubt caused by uneasy grief after your loved one's death.
I know not on what ground my feet are resting;
I recognize not the air my nostrils embrace:
All is, and shall be, darkness, divesting
My soul from all affiliation with the human race.
And so, with cautious movement, my hands begin questing
And, after interminable time, find a resting-
Place ---
Upon my lover's inert, lifeless face.
You tell me. Did the narrator kill her in a sleepwalking daze? Did she die of Scarlet Fever after he failed to bring the doctor in time? Did she fall into a booby-trap which he had set to catch somebody trying to harm her?
Your guess is as good as mine.
See you on Monday!
Head on over to Spock’s Record Round-Up
for musical fun during its Spooky Spock-Tober!
Friday, October 13, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
More Topps Monster Laughs
ABOVE: This is how I feel, most of the spring / summer / fall months
See you on Friday with a brief Halloween ditty. Tomorrow, Thursday, head on over to Spock’s Record Round-Up for musical fun during its Spooky Spock-Tober!
See you on Friday with a brief Halloween ditty. Tomorrow, Thursday, head on over to Spock’s Record Round-Up for musical fun during its Spooky Spock-Tober!
Labels:
Blog-o-Ween,
Scary Fun,
TV and Movies
Monday, October 09, 2017
From a 1976 National Lampoon: The Genius of Gahan Wilson
In the National Lampoon of the mid-1970s, Gahan Wilson had a wonderful strip called "Nuts," in which a little boy with social anxiety is just trying to figure things out. In other words, he was a lot like me!
These pages are from the September, 1976 issue:
Such indeed in tone were my childhood Halloween memories ...
See you on Wednesday! Now hurry over the the Record Round-Up to see what's on tap for today's instalment of Spooky Spock-Tober!
These pages are from the September, 1976 issue:
Such indeed in tone were my childhood Halloween memories ...
See you on Wednesday! Now hurry over the the Record Round-Up to see what's on tap for today's instalment of Spooky Spock-Tober!
Labels:
Blog-o-Ween,
Nostalgia,
Scary Fun
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