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The melon-choly days are come.

Well, hot damn.  Not all healthy food is stultifyingly gross to eat.  I can’t remember the last time I ate watermelon — maybe in college?  I’m pretty sure that watermelon-flavored Jolly Ranchers don’t count.

But this is a miracle food.  I didn’t have to add any salt or sugar ore even fry it in order for it to taste delicious.  Why didn’t people advise me to eat this to start with?

Tomorrow — tofu.  Or maybe not.  I bought a tray of that #$%*, but it’s been sitting in my fridge for a while now, because I’m too afraid to open it.  I swear to you … the loose, cool weight of it in that little plastic dish feels precisely how I would expect a slice of prepackaged cadaver to feel in my hands.  I might leave it out for the turkey vultures.  (Note to New Yorkers — the South indeed has these truly enormous birds called “turkey vultures” or “turkey buzzards.”  You kinda have to see it to believe it.)  I’ll update you guys.

 

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Poster for “Idiocracy” (2006)

20th Century Fox.

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Throwback Thursday: “The Birds” (1963)!

“The Birds” (1963) was yet another film that I grew up with; it got plenty of air time in the 1980’s, and it was such a gem that my Uncle John had it in is movie library too.

As far as I am aware … this is the only time Alfred Hitchcock delved into science fiction -horror.  (Somebody please correct me on that if I am wrong.)  I only learned just now that it was based on a 1952 novel by Daphne du Maurier.  (I thought the name sounded familiar upon reading it, and also learned that she wrote the eponymous source material for Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in 1940.)

The trailer below is kind of interesting — it features Hitchcock himself hamming it up, with almost no footage from the film.  I don’t think it would make it past a modern marketing department — it’s more than five minutes long, and it takes a bit too much time getting to its point.

 

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“Indian Summer,” Jervis McEntee, 1860’s

Oil on canvas.

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“There was a young lady named Bright …”

“There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.”

― Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

 

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Photo credit: TomasEE [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D

Poster for “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1962)

Universal-International.

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“Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking on my door.”

“Late last night and the night before,

tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking on my door.

I wanna go out, don’t know if I can

‘cuz I’m so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

― from Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers

 

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Cover to “Detective Comics” #630, Michael Golden, 1991

DC Comics.

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“One crown is lacking, Prospero …”

One crown is lacking, Prospero,

My empire is my own;

Dying Alonso does not know

The diadem Antonio

Wears in his world alone.

— Antonio’s refrain, from W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror

 

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Cover to “Amazing Stories,” A. Sigmond, June 1933

Teck Publishing.

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