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. ...

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...

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 ...

  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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ....

Yup, here's another example of perfect logic, from the government who blames most UFOs on swamp gas! Of course, if you already believed ...

Then check out some of these tomes from my lurking, loony library! The above 1979 chronicle of Betty Andreasson's multiple weird encount...

That's what this article from the February 29, 1988 issue of Amazing Heroes  is all about.  Of course, a few more titles have appeared ...

Our middle kid was four and a half when she presented me with the following sketch: She only told me it was "a man."  But I think ...

I discovered Lute's Bookstore in downtown OKC around 1980.  I enjoyed browsing all the tons of stuff.  I was impressed with the thick ar...