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I’m a Fred I have another bad pun for you.

So here’s the plan — I’m gonna move back to my college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and start a poetry group there.

Gonna call it “Fred Poets Society.”

(I already e-mailed my old writing prof and told him he had to be our Mr. Keating.)



Painting by Veronica Maria Herwegen-Manini, Late 19th or Early 20th Centuries

Oil on canvas.  Between 1867 and 1933.

Life of Pie.

“Tightrope,” Paul Klee, 1880

Throwback Thursday: “The Return of the Living Dead” (1985)!

One of my tragic flaws is that I am consistently late to the party when it comes to cool stuff.  (Seriously.)  So I never saw “Return of the Living Dead” (1985) in the 80’s.  I saw it around … 1993 or 1994, I guess,  on VHS tape in the Mary Washington College dorm room of Rhett Carlson and Nickolai Butkevich.

I truly enjoyed it, which is unusual for a horror-comedy.  (Movies can either scare me or make me laugh, but they can rarely do both.)  Yes, I am one of the people out there who finds “Return of the Living Dead” genuinely creepy.  C’mon … it’s got decent makeup effects — and both the “Tarman” zombie and the slab woman, for example, are pretty well executed monsters.

Hey … there’s a remake due out this Christmas.  I guess we’ll have to wait and see if it’s any good.



Poster for “Westworld” Season 3 (2020)

HBO.

Cover to “Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen” #1, Curt Swan & Stan Kaye, 1954

DC Comics.