OLD TIME RADIO - It began in the twenties and lasted until
the fifties. Some say later. In a simpler age before media saturated every moment.
The big three television broadcast channels you watch today actually started as
radio channels. There were comedies and dramas but my favorites are tales of
the supernatural and horror. Broadcast radio was free and at the time even more
popular than TV. Families rushed home to huddle around the radio in the living
room. With titles like The Mysterious Traveler, Inner Sanctum, Suspense and
Lights Out; OTR plays feel like sitting around a campfire listening to ghost
stories. Want to browse some and have a listen? Do a search for “horror radio
plays archive.org”, download the free MP3 and upload to your device. Turn off
all the lights and get prepared for a scare! Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
I write dark speculative fiction. #weirdfiction #darkfantasy #horrorfiction #scifi #postapocalypticfiction
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
STAR 80
STAR 80 - While working at Dairy Queen, Dorothy Ruth
Hoogstraten met Paul Snider. He took photographs and sent them to Playboy
magazine. The camera loved her fresh faced innocence, she was on her way to
becoming a star. She moved to LA, changed her name to Dorothy Stratten and
started working as a bunny. The pair married the same year. Soon she was
Playboy's Playmate of the Month, and quickly after that, Playmate of the Year.
Hugh Hefner secured several guest starring roles in TV and movies for her. Sensing
trouble, Hef encouraged her to cut ties with Snider. Her ex felt as if he was
losing her. He began to have a private investigator follow her around LA when
they separated. After trying to reach Snider for hours he broke into his
bedroom and discovered two bodies. Police determined he murdered her, raped her
and shot himself. Dorothy was only 20 years old when she died. Her lover at
the time, Peter Bogdanovich, was making a movie with her which he struggled to
finish. He wrote a book, titled The Killing of the Unicorn. Stratten's rise and
fall was depicted in the 1983 film entitled Star 80.




Sunday, January 15, 2017
TOP ASTRONOMICAL MYSTERIES
TOP ASTRONOMICAL MYSTERIES
1.
Earth’s Solar System has
differences that aren’t easily explained, compared to discoveries of alien
planets around other stars. Such as the position of the gas giants and a
possible as yet undiscovered exoplanet.
2.
The Sun's corona
puzzles scientists because its ultra-hot outer atmosphere reaches 10.8 million
degrees and coronal heating that occurs in the sun's upper atmosphere.
3.
Cosmic rays flow into the
solar system from deep space, the origin and great strength (100 million times more
than manmade collider particles) of these subatomic particles is a mystery.
4.
Supernovas are fuel
depleted massive stars that blast so bright they outshine galaxies. Scientists
want to understand what happens inside a star before the ignition.
5.
Reionization of the universe
occurred right after the big bang in an age when hydrogen gas
cleared and became translucent to ultraviolet light. These processes are not understood.
6.
Dark
energy makes up 73% of the universe, theories state it is pulling the universe apart.
Astronomers use it to explain the rapidly expanding universe.
7.
Dark matter is invisible, has mass--23% of the universe-- but can’t be seen. Its presence is detected by gravitational pull on other objects.
Dark matter is invisible, has mass--23% of the universe-- but can’t be seen. Its presence is detected by gravitational pull on other objects.
8.
Missing Baryons make up
the missing 5% and science suspects they may be found between galaxies in
intergalactic medium but can only account for half of this material.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
SOCIAL MEDIA STATS
Google + stats: 901,879 views as
of January 2017
Blogger
stats: 566,174 page views as of January 2017
Goodreads stats: 5,181 friends & 526 followers as of January 2017
Twitter
stats: 50,100 followers as of January 2017
Podbean
stats: 1,773 plays as of January 2017
Facebook
stats: 1,674 page likes & 22,000 post likes as of January 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
HORROR 2017
HORROR 2017 – We’ll see if 2017 is a better year for horror
movies. There’s an abundance of re-makes not worth mentioning unless they have
something new to offer. Here’s my short list of (potentially good) films. And a
similar link to last year’s post, interesting to note that four weren’t
released last year.

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