They were damn good with the camera angles…they always make those soundstage bleachers look vast.

Doesn't hold a candle to what Let's Make A Deal must have been like…

He hopes he didn't snarf up anything that wasn't popcorn at last night's Yahtzee game?

I love all those old pulps. I have a couple collections of Black Mask stories, all the Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith (not a huge HPL fan beyond "he was a great idea man") I could get my hands on, a bunch of old fiction magazines from the '30s and on up (bought most of those before the Internet, so they were…

Manhattan! Manhattan! Manhattan!

Until this book (the one I'm reading is a Penguin collection called Perchance to Dream), I was only familiar with him via the Twilight Zone. I knew he had written many stories, and a few books have been on my to-read list for a long time, but I never got around to picking them up.
If you're a fan of older pulp…

There's a used MM paperback on Amazon for $15….

He's not to everyone's taste. I discovered Calvino (along with Borges) just at the time I was discovering the wider world of literature…so he's always going to be a favorite of mine.
I'm resisting the temptation to go all Zappa fan and say you haven't read the right book by him yet and suggest a slew of…

Saw Luna a few weeks back at Mass MoCA. Great show!

Living Colour - Ignorance Is Bliss
Blackbird Blackbird - Darlin' Dear
Leadbelly - Ain't Going to Drink No More
Police - Synchronicity I
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Craft Spells - After the Moment
Richard Thompson Band - End of the Rainbow (Live)
Shuggie Otis - Sweet Thang
Paul Weller - Pan
Animals - CC Rider (Live BBC)
Our…

4th of July cookout…two days of prep, and a marathon 13 hours between kitchen and grill on Monday. Made enough to feed a small nation…15 people went home with smiles and full bellies.

This is reminiscent of a bee…

Read this last year on Mrs. HR's suggestion. I was a little leery going in, but damn is it a finely-written novel. Things come together so well, and in ways that are unexpected, at the end.

Fantastic book!

I meant to get into the second Martin Beck mystery, but instead I ended up purchasing a book of short stories by my favorite Twilight Zone writer, Charles Beaumont. He wrote some of my favorite episodes of the show: Long Distance Call, Living Doll, etc.

Especially in the early stages of development!

Dad?

He's working on a sex farm. Ploughing through bean fields, poking hay.

Roberto died on his way back to his home planet.

Same here. I've only seen two or three of his films; all were decent, but the best descriptor I can think for them is "workmanlike." They're competent and fairly thorough, but they're also (to me) lacking something that would make them absorb my interest in full…they all felt exactly as long as they are when I…