Blessed to be able to spend five hours on the phone with a friend tonight.

Stayed up late last night watching most of The Ten Commandments. One of the greatest stories ever told plus a love triangle and an inheritance drama. I seem to remember it was God who hardened Pharoah’s heart rather than Anne Baxter though.

I have been giving you hypnotic commands telepathically.

Dr. Mabuse’s super-ideas are directed against humanity and society.

Real conversation:

Them: So technically, every pussy is non-Euclidian

Me: Let me stop you there.

Who up late watching the Mysterians???

Just watched a Richard Matheson episode of The Twilight Zone where an old guy pretends to be his broken down android boxer and fights a new model android boxer. He gets clobbered but they made it about the triumph of the human spirit. It would’ve been a better episode if the old guy died.

"Later we will let you examine a case where a man's brain has been transferred to a woman's skull, and a woman's brain to a man's."
—Edgar Rice Burroughs, THE MASTER MIND OF MARS (1928)

The part in The Day The Earth Stood Still where Klaatu visits the Lincoln Memorial and says that’s the kind of man he’d like to talk to really moved me.

I’m impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it. —Klaatu

Gas leak in the library today and we were evacuated by the fire department. Per my boss’ orders, I valiantly stayed at my post at the cash register of the Friends of the Library store until a firefighter actually approached me and ordered me to leave.

I just sang a modified version of the Macarena to my cat (the name was changed to make it about her). She looked at me in fear and confusion and hid under the chest of drawers.

I don’t how having played Red Dead Redemption has changed my experience of watching Spaghetti Westerns. I find myself thinking about the game and wondering how certain scenes would be rendered in it.

Keep the home fires burning!

Check out my latest blogpost. It’s my first look at pulp fiction from the Ziff-Davis family of science fiction and fantasy magazines. There’s some real treasure here. open.substack.com/pub/williame... #booksky

Watching an episode of the Outer Limits and there’s a character with an office door that says, “Consulting Psychiatrist Asteroid Mining Project,” and isn’t that rad?

You ever just be blogging and need to write five paragraphs that you're pretty sure you'll need to delete later just to get them out of your system?

Got my collection of Thrilling Wonder Stories bagged and boarded and organized by date last night. Some random covers I like. #booksky

Someday I will die for Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell apologia at the hands of some kind of genre person I haven't imagined yet. But when they come for the memory of Raymond A. Palmer, I may just keep my mouth shut.

Currently viewing Charles Bronson and Vincent Price in Jules Verne’s Master of the World (1961).

The artist is Mark Salwowski

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database is really the place to check: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.c...

Feral UK edition of Strange Relations . Uncredited cover illustrates Philip José Farmer’s Freudian womb-return story “Mother” #booksky

I love Tom Strong. Utterly heartwarming.

The pleasure of petting my cat while reading a pulp magazine on the couch. #booksky

I am enjoying listening to the new Charley Crockett album.

How it’s going. #booksky

Check out my latest blogpost about the January 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! open.substack.com/pub/williame...

Last night I bought five boxes of cereal. Just woke up from a dream about them.

An ape is sitting on a power pole holding an automatic rifle

POWER TO THE APES

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Another new pulp I bought special for my blog. Cover by Ramon Naylor. Interiors by Leo Ramon Summers and Murphy Anderson.