I Voted -- October 28, 2024

I went to the gym at Saint Peter's church and submitted my absentee ballot. 

Open the Great Highway - NO on K -- October 28, 2024

If I still lived in San Francisco, I would vote no on Proposition K. Closing the Great Highway on weekends is inconvenient for a lot of people who need to cross the Sunset District and don't want to get stuck in traffic on Nineteenth Avenue or have to navigate from Sunset to Chain of Lakes Drive via Lincoln. If they closed it permanently, it would make a bigger mess. People could walk on the path or Ocean Beach. If the Great Highway had closed while I was caregiving for my mother and my uncle, I would have had a nervous breakdown.

Would YOU Put the Lights Out for Lights Out? -- October 27, 2024

Winona Daily Times, 17-February-1947

Halloween is coming.

Yesterday I wrote a bit about Arch Oboler's radio horror show Lights Out:

The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion: Turn Your Lights Out -- October 26, 2024

I later came across this item, which I like. It advertised an episode starring Boris Karloff.

"Would YOU Put the Lights Out for Lights Out?" 

Turn Your Lights Out -- October 26, 2024

Oakland Tribune, 02-February-1972

Halloween is coming.

When I was a kid, Gene Nelson on KSFO played old radio shows at 10 pm on weeknights. I would be in bed by ten so I could listen every night unless the Giants' game ran late. I had to keep the radio's volume turned down very low because my dad was a light sleeper. 

Nelson often played episodes of great horror shows. Arch Oboler's Lights Out was hard to come by, but it had many wonderful stories including "The Chicken Heart" and "The Dark." 

When I took public speaking in high school, I reenacted Bill Cosby's routine about "The Chicken Heart." 

On this night, Nelson also played an episode of The Inner Sanctum, which was not as much fun as Lights Out, but which had one of the best openings of any radio show.

My wife and I both miss Dinner Jazz on KJAZ.

New Cat #122 -- October 25, 2024

Halloween is coming.

I took the photo on 20-October-2024.

Comic Book -- Tales From the Crypt -- October 23, 2024

mutoscope.listal.com

Halloween is coming. 

EC was famous for its horror comics, The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear and Tales From the Crypt. This fellow is suffering from claustrophobia or something. 

Pulp -- Terror Tales -- October 22, 2024

coverbrowser.com

Halloween is coming.

Let's review this cover of Terror Tales:

-- Weird lettering in title, Check.

-- scary person behind that curtain, ... Check.

-- hand holding knife, ... Check.

-- which is dripping with blood,...   Check.

-- and scantily clad woman. Check.

This should work.