Presented for your inspection: three exercises in sweetening.
Famous Monsters Saturday
A Photographic Record Never Before Published!
H.O.T.S. Live Tweet – The Transcript
Scott and I had a blast tweeting our viewing of the 1979 T&A comedy H.O.T.S. This may have been due more to the alcohol than the quality of the movie. We can’t say H.O.T.S. was a good movie but it’s not lacking for variety: naked boobs in almost every scene, a live bear and a guy in a bear suit, …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES ALL WEIRD! We’ve featured a couple of magazines so far, but I realized that though I’ve spotlighted a Weird Tales cover or two, I’ve never devoted a whole column to my favorite pulp zine. As I was scrolling through the covers, there were too many great ones for a single column, so, good news!, I’m going …
Another Cheese Magnet Live-Tweeting Event!
Follow @CheeseMagnet and @ScottPhillipsNM and join in as we live-Tweet the hell out of another movie.
Where’s My UFO?
Just one saucer. That’s all I ask.
Cool Actor of the Week: Christopher George
My recent write-up of The Rat Patrol got me thinking about Christopher George. George was a favorite actor of my youth, a man’s-man sort of guy who could also believably be a boy’s-hero. There were other tough guys of his generation that I liked, notably Robert Vaughan and Robert Conrad. Robert Vaughan was suave-urbane tough in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
NEW BOOK COVER The link I got for the cover to the new Wild Cards epic, FORT FREAK, results in a ginormous image. I’ll see if I can manage to trim it down to a manageable size.
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 4: “Shindig”
The Big Damn Review continues with Mal & Inara gettin’ their own romance novel, Kaylee gettin’ some more strawberries and lots of attention from the fellas, Wash & Zoe gettin’ it marriedly on, and the joys of tightpants.
Classic Rock Sunday: The James Gang
The James Gang was formed in 1967, enjoying moderate success around their hometown of Cleveland but it wasn’t until their original guitarist quit and Joe Walsh signed on that they really began to hit their stride. Their first album together was Yer’ Album, released in 1969. Despite some strong tracks the album was mostly a hint of the potential the …
Famous Monsters Saturday
A Forbidden Look Inside the House of Ackerman!
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: Astouding Aliens Down Through The Ages This time around I thought I’d do a shout-out to another favorite zine of mine, the longest continually-published sf magazine (Jan. 1930 to this very day), ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE, or, as it’s known (less pulpishly) today, ANALOG. I must say that I miss the original title, even in its …
Friday the 13th Bricklight Block Party
Hey folks, ScottP here — this Friday, May 13 starting around noon, Bob Vardeman and I will be manning a table outside Kurly Tlapoyawa’s Burning Paradise Video doing our part for the Friday the 13th Bricklight Block Party. Word has it there’ll be music, specials, and who knows what, so come on by, say hey, and buy some books! Burning …
Cool Actor of the Week: Ed O’Neill
This week we salute Ed ‘Neill, TV’s Al Bundy, hero to all men.
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 3: “Bushwhacked”
Wherein our heroes discuss Reavers vs Klingons, the unstoppable Western-ness of the series even when an attempt is made to hide it from the network, and that whole area where Zoe’s legs meet her back.