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Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Rest of the VOYAGE Is Available on Amazon!

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Yes, ​Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series, Volume Two is available on Am...
Monday, December 07, 2020

A Dusty Christmas Present

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On Christmas Day, in 1977, I was 21.  And my folks knew I loved Star Trek . So it was only logical to give me this towel.  Of course this i...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

December's Calendar Pages

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Once more, the recurrence of 2020-2021's calendar dates matching 1970-71 allows you to print these 50-year-old pages and use them for th...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Lost in the Mists of Time and Space

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Well, I came across this manic consumer parable in the 9th grade, as provided by American Lit teacher Ruth White, around Christmas, 1971. Ev...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

A Chip off the Old Book

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Anybody who knows anything knows that my mom, Mary Lou, loved books. She loved ’em even more than I do. She read books the way some folks ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Book Review: "The First Star Trek Movie: Bringing the Franchise to the Big Screen, 1969-1980" -- by Sherilyn Connelly

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            Connelly does a first-rate job of presenting the fruits of her research.   She sifted through tons of newspaper articles and o...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Superman and JFK

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It only made sense for DC's hottest super-star, the Man of Steel, to find common ground with the real-life American super-star president...
Monday, November 16, 2020

Super Clothes #7: Sears Has Everything! (except stores)

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The kid clothes and PJs in this installment all came from Sears. This long-sleeved flannel-type boy’s outfit is size 10. In a stunning piece...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

I'm a Marxist, Number 2!

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Yes, Grouch Marx remains my patron saint.  Here are some clippings about him and his clan: The above clipping is from the March 28, 1969 iss...
Monday, November 09, 2020

Lois Lane, the First Lady of Comics!

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Here's a headstrong, willful heroine we can all vote for!  This article is from the August 1, 1985 issue of the late, lamented Amazing ...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

November's PSYCHOFlairapy Calendar Pages

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Only a few days late, here's the art header and the calendar page from 1970/2020: You can print out the art page and finish coloring you...
Monday, November 02, 2020

Two Views of Sergeant Pepper

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Below, the Newsweek of January 1, 1968 compares Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to the comparably garish Their Satanic Majesti...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

The Two-Faced Halloween of 1968

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            On Halloween, 1968, I was twelve years old—almost too old for trick-or-treating.   It was a Thursday night.   And this year I...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

The Munsters Sink Slowly into the West ...

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There three pages are the last images from the Munsters coloring book for this year. I think Marilyn should have said, "It's a dumm...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Scary Books, Kiddies! Dracula: Asylum

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Scary Books, Kiddies! Dracula: Asylum . By Paul Witcover. DH Press, 2006. Cover painting by Stephen Youll. Well, the 2001 Dracula reboot...
Friday, October 23, 2020

In 1977, Reader's Digest Plugged the Crappy King Kong

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The 1977 King Kong not only had crummy effects, even at its release, the acting from Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, etc, was cringeworthy. ...
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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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