Jack Kirby, with Chic Stone, tells a tale about Jack Ruby’s murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, from May 1967’s Esquire magazine.
I had no idea at all “46 Hours & 36 Minutes In The Life Of Jack Ruby” existed. It’s amazing what you can turn up while trawling through old archives.
George Smiley and 2 colleagues sat in a row opposite spy, back to us, in stately home.
"I've got a story to tell you. It's all about spies. And if it's true, which I think it is, you boys are gonna need a whole new organisation."
"You know this is AA, right?"
"Oh, wrong room. Sorry."
My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Three astronauts in blue jumpsuits float through or work in the cramped quarters of a space station with CCCP on its side. A blue Earth is below and to the right of them.
Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! Here's a crossection of the Mir space station, by Pierre Mion.
BBC Enterprises advert from the International TV & Video Guide, 1986
Three desktop computer are on top of a giant floppy disk that's serving as a desktop.
Six white spheres float around near a spiral.
A beam of light is refracted through a glass prism with a computer screen shape on it, and the light surreally turns into a computer print-out after passing through.
Four keyboards are all connected to a stack of four floppy disks.
The articles in this issue are all about groupware, a collaborative software for people working on a common task together. Tinney's illustrating different aspects of that concept with each image.
"VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: The Menfish"
(transmitted 06/03/66)
An unethical scientist experiments with human/marine creature hybrids and inadvertently spawns a giant monster...
#sciencefiction #horror #horrorfam #scifi #1960s #kaiju
It’s the hiatus between seasons 22 and 23 and we’re sharing one of our Patreon bonus episodes in which we review season 12 with Tom Baker and look at Big Finish’s Bang Bang A-Boom!
www.thedoctorsbeardpodcast.com/bang-bang-a-...
P.S. Thanks for letting me contribute in a tiny way towards that.
4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social
This catalogue page features various Realistic Scanning Radios and Scanner Accessories from Tandy. It includes mobile and table top scanning receivers, alongside a selection of accessories such as coax adapters and plug-in aerials. The page highlights the professional choice in scanning radios, suitable for home or car use. (+65-520 MHz Omnidirectional, vertically polarized aerial for the Pro-2001 Scanner Base Station Coax Cable Assembly Coax Adapting Connector Indoor UHF Hi/Lo Plug-In Aerial Indoor VHF Hi/Lo Plug-In Aerial Realistic Pro-20 Realistic Pro-2002 Realistic Pro-2008 Realistic Pro-47 Realistic Pro-53 and VHF Hi/Lo, UHF Hi/Lo Magnetic Mount Mobile Aerial)
1980: Scanner Accessories and Radios & Scanners from Tandy
(+VHF Hi/Lo, UHF Hi/Lo Magnetic Mount Mobile Aerial; Base Station Coax Cable Assembly; Indoor UHF Hi/Lo Plug-In Aerial; Indoor VHF Hi/Lo Plug-In Aerial, and more)
Read thousands of definitions in the 700-page Roger’s Profanisaurus: Turtleshead Revisited — Viz’s biggest ever encyclopaedia of bad language (and a great table-leveller). A perfect gift for yourself or someone you vaguely like.
Get it here: https://bit.ly/4pcoTaU
#viz #comedy #rude #swear
What an achievement! Congrats, Joe.
The Hamsterverse hits its half million downloads! Five years; commentaries, Strictly’s, Book Clubs, Patreon, X-Files, friendship, laughter, madness, facts (occasionally), scandal, gossip, and a lot of people crossing paths and sharing their love. It’s been a huge adventure. Thanks for pressing play.
TV Listings For Thursday 7th March 1963
Photo of four books: Young Sherlock - Red Leech by Andrew Lane. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (filmed as Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hinds. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks.
A few recent #charityshop purchases.
the album version of all the single ladies is called all the album ladies
Four men are standing on the ground wary of their surrounds inside a dark building. One has a pistol, another a suitcase. They don't see or hear from the darkness above them Batman swooping down at them with the aid of his cape. Narration: "Batman."
7th March, 1970:
"Doctor Who and the Silurians" episode 6. #DoctorWho
"...the alien supergenius Dr. Who recognizes them as Krynoids..."
"KRYNOIDS" c/o "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MONSTERS" (Jeff Rovin, 1989). #DoctorWho
Jack Binder’s cover for Nickel Comics, July 1940
Jack Binder’s cover for Silver Streak Comics, September 1941
Jack Binder’s cover for Prize Comics, October 1941
Jack Binder’s cover for Silver Streak Comics, October 1941
Artist Jack Binder sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder... died on this day; he did a lot of work for comics (as well as the SF magazines), so here’s some of his comic cover artwork from 1940-1941:
Cover for "EERIE" magazine No.81 (1977).
#Sizesky #horrorfam #giantess #Kong #1970s #fantasyart
Jim Danforth animating a sea monster for Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
#filmsky #vfx
We discuss everything that makes this story stand out as impressively as it does, the many ways that the story is unique and why the instincts of the writer and producer were bang on.
@grumpy2eb.bsky.social
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Cover to "Other Worlds" by Cyrano de Bergerac (a 1976 edition)
From “The Comical History of the States and Empires Of The Worlds of the Moon and Sun. Written in French by Cyrano Bergerac. And newly Englished by A. Lovell", a 1687 edition
From "L'autre monde ou Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1947 edition
From "L'Autre Monde" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1944 edition
Cyrano de Bergerac sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cyrano... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Tim White, [possibly FH van Hove], Jacqueline Charmot and Maurice de Becque):
Kermit introduces the Muppet Show leaning out of the letter 'O' in the Muppet Show logo
"It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Robot Wig! Yay!"
All shot using real figures, lighting and a homemade Muppets Show Logo I printed put onto card and cut a hole in.
#themuppetshow #themuppets #muppet #kermitthefrog #kermit #jimhenson #photography #visualart #miniatures
"We're trapped!"
"Doctor Who: The Web of Fear" episode 5 (1968). #DoctorWho
Promotional image for "CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON" (1954). #horror #horrofam #1950s #scifi #horrormovie
Gravitron! Moon jumping! Neurotropic virus! Dave and @quiteamess.bsky.social land beside a moon base in 2070 where the crew are falling ill. What will they make of Benoit’s cravat, animated Troughton and the cybermens sugar plan?
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#AKettleandSomeString
