In honor of the passing this week of the great Ray Bradbury, here’s a half-hour television documentary about him by David L. Wolper, courtesy of the Internet Archive.
Included is Bradbury’s “Dial Double Zero,” a short story about intelligence within a telephone system.
Enjoy. Me, I’m going to go memorize a book in his honor.
It’s Thanksgiving week. Impossible to get anyone on the phone. News stories about crowded, delayed and cranky airports. Christmas music reaches overload levels. Let’s talk about giving thanks, and what inspires it. Here are some of the things for which I’m grateful this year: It’s a great time to be a comics reader. Even during…
ALL PULP REVIEWS- by Ron Fortier THE BLACK BADGE Deputy Unites States Marshall Bass Reeves From Slave to Heroic Lawman By Paul Brady Milligan Books, Inc. 202 pages At the age of sixteen years old, runaway slave Bass Reeves left the Texas plantation where he had been raised and fled into the Indian Territories. There…
SYNOPSISAfter a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers heâs actually stranded on Earthâ¦65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight…
This site stands out for a couple of reasons. One, it’s a great blog type site recording Chick’s interest in all things Lovecraftian, plus is a good resource for just what is out there! And you can order your own personal crocheted Cthulhu! AND she has collected all of Lovecraft’s works into an EBOOK that…
The BBC has recently released four stories from the original run of the show on YouTube. The stories are: The Edge of Destruction (William Hartnell) The Krotons (Patrick Troughton) Carnival of Monsters (Jon Pertwee) The Caves of Androzani (Peter Davison) If you’ve never seen them before, now’s your chance.
Over at Comixology, Shaenon K. Garrity offers up her thanks to Dark Horse Comics for publishing Little Lulu reprint volumes en masse, and provides a great analysis of what made the comic strip work. Simply put, I’m quite certain this is a quality piece of commentary because it actually made me want to hunt down…
