I didn’t have room to explain what the acronym NSC in the final panel stood for. It’s National Safety Council. Sorry about the three straight comics about Richard Matheson’s book “Shock 1”, I just had too many comments to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I originally saw that Family Guy episode back in 2010, and the subsequent viewings in reruns, thinking that it might have been based on a short story written by Richard Matheson was the furthest thing from my mind. Now,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The story I read tonight, “Long Distance Call” is about an old, bedridden woman (Miss Elva) who starts getting phone calls in the middle of the night from a weak sounding man. She eventually discovers that her phone line had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In case you’ve never seen the video I’m talking about and to see what I’m trying to show in the last panel, if You Tube lets me, here’s the video:
Because this is simply a road through a park, crossing over the yellow line to give joggers, bicyclists, dog walkers enough room isn’t illegal. It’s not as if this is a highway. Those vehicles are huge, heavy metal objects that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If You Tube let’s me, here’s the video I was watching in the comic:
I’ve been thinking about this for years. With the advent of the internet, apps like Spotify or the type that allow you to “create” your own station (there are stations on the internet and satellite radio that play ONLY music[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure there are those who will read this and begin crying that self-checkout lines take a way jobs, that the machines are replacing human jobs, but here’s the thing. If retail brick and mortar stores, like the one in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even though I lived and listened to the radio in those days, I was still surprised to hear so many instrumental songs that were popular and made the Top 100. It showed not only that there were a variety of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To give you an image of the unique characters in this film. Top Left: Ember (Fire). Top Right: Gale (Air, a Cloud). Bottom Left; Clod (Earth, a clod of Dirt). Bottom Right: Wade (Water).