lazypadawan | Reading

After another week’s break to head home for the long weekend I returned to my Twilight Zone Blu-Ray set. As an isolated title, “The Four of Us Are Dying” had got my attention while remaining something to guess about. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview naming four actors also got my attention; it seemed a more extravagant number of potentially significant characters than I’d quite associated with the show up to now. As I loaded up the Blu-Ray I was also amused to see the option of a commentary track from Beverly Garland. She seems the person who’s appeared in more than one of the movies featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 who the fans of that show are most impressed with.
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krpalmer

At the seventy-fifth anniversary of the appearance of the first Peanuts comic strip, I went back to my library’s ebook lending service and signed out the final Peanuts Every Sunday colour collection. I didn’t rush through it, aware that I was coming to the end of the strip, if in a selective way. There was, too, the enduring thought that I might not be able to say very much about it.

( “Yes, sir.. I want to buy a red kite..” )

krpalmer

I decided a little while ago to go into the city and attend an outdoor book fair. While I’ve been to it before, I was wondering about what, if anything, I’d buy there. That thought could have strengthened as I passed by the kiosk for a notable science fiction bookstore, conscious all over again of what frayed if not snapped certain of the strings connecting me to the genre in print.

When I saw a small hardcover on a table, though, I picked it up and looked at the blurb inside the front cover. Mason Coile’s Exiles promised “the first people arrive on Mars to find the robots that put together their base in disarray.” While the book seemed pricy (I suppose I haven’t been looking at hardcovers too much of late), I kept thinking about it, and then I bought it, not as my only purchase at the fair.
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From the (Library e-)Comics Rack: Peanuts Every Sunday 1996-2000

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