The Wiz might be something only my fellow New Yorkers will remember — it was a regional electronics chain in the metropolitan area. Get a load of that electric typewriter for just $99.00.
Though everyone in my Long Island neighborhood saw commercials like this on TV, there weren’t any Wiz locations near us. That territory had been firmly staked out by the far older P. C. Richard and Sons, The Wiz’ competitor.
Be warned — the jingle here is an earworm.
Enjoy it and stay safe. You guys behave yourselves!! No roughhousing this year!
Life magazine cover, November 20, 1890
It is with deep sadness that we are announcing an official close to submissions to The Bees Are Dead.
In all honesty, the webzine has been on hiatus for a while due to issues with our hosting site and growing family and work commitments. However, the unfortunate and sudden death of our great friend – and a third of the editorial Triumvirate, Dennis Williamson (a.k.a. Villelmi) – has caused the tentative process of reigniting the zine to fully extinguish.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to us over the years and contributed to our dystopian labour of love. As has always been the case, please feel free to submit anything you had published with us, elsewhere.
The Bees Are Dead website has been taken down, but we will be leaving our Facebook page live (for as long as Facebook remains active) in memory of our beloved Dennis, whose collaboration, friendship, and exceptional talent for writing dark poetry imbued with a concoction of industrial imagery and classical references, we will never forget.
We wish all of our contributors and readers good luck in your current and future projects, and we hope you will continue to name us within your writer’s biographies.
With love and gratitude,
Philippe and Eric
– B.A.D. Press
I am so happy this morning to see Spillwords Press feature my short poem, “Blue.” You can find the poem right here.
Thanks yet again to Director of Development Dagmara K. for allowing me to be a part of the Spillwords Press creative community!
Here’s just a nifty newspaper advertisement for WOR-TV Channel 9’s annual Thanksgiving monster movie marathon — about which I’ve posted once or twice before.
I actually remember nearly all of this lineup from watching in the 1980’s! The three big-gorilla flicks came first, in glorious black and white, with the Godzilla entries after. (The only movie below that doesn’t ring a bell for me is “Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster.” I must have missed that one.
My online friends dared me to make memes about them. I think these are pretty inspired for the speedy turnaround time …
Oh, HOW might I go about monetizing my brilliance?
My college buddy Charlene:
My friend Joan:
Awesome horror author Wednesday Lee Friday:
My college buddy Frank:
I wonder if I can convert my daylight savings to a daylight checking account.
“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures.
“The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets …”
— from Cynthia Rant’s In November
Source: the Serendipity Corner Facebook page
Photo by Eric Robert Nolan
(No, it did not snow here in Roanoke. But it snowed in a lot of my friends’ burbs, and I cannot resist the pun.)
Enjoy it and stay safe!!
Photo credit: ParentingPatch, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 