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Isn’t that you behind those Foster Grants?

Isn’t that you behind those Foster Grants?

dr-atomics-nerd-factory:Nostalgia #3: Creature Features with...

dr-atomics-nerd-factory:

Nostalgia #3: Creature Features with Bob Wilkins

After all, it is Saturday night…

Ahhh, there’s what I was looking for.

thevanderghoultwist:Classic Horror Hosts - BOB WILKINS!Bob...

thevanderghoultwist:

Classic Horror Hosts - BOB WILKINS!

Bob Wilkins didn’t seem the sort to become a horror host. He wasn’t dressed like an undertaker or mad scientist. He didn’t wear a fright wig. He didn’t even have an alter-ego! He was just Bob Wilkins, mild-mannered host ofCreature Features, reclining in his trademark yellow rocking chair and smoking a huge cigar and delivering the show’s slogan: “Watch Horror Films - Keep America Strong!”Despite that, or perhapsbecause of it, he...

wackd:So I was all set to do a Bob Wilkins poster next—not an...

wackd:

So I was all set to do a Bob Wilkins poster next—not an Obama one, but one that lent itself well to his motto. A more “traditional” campaign poster, if you will.

So naturally while looking for one to parody it turns out oh hey someone did an Obama one. So I guess I don’t have to worry about it.

Thanks, Mr. Lobo!

Hey, Bob. Looking good.

mares-nest-x:IllustrationsPart of what I love about mares...

mares-nest-x:

Illustrations

Part of what I love about mares nest is the feeling that I’m looking at illustrations from a favorite remembered picture book that I never actually read.

nationalfilmsociety:Bride of FrankensteinMy daughter is...

nationalfilmsociety:

Bride of Frankenstein

My daughter is deeply interested in scary things.

I could only wish for her a life as rich asMary Shelly’s.

But I think it was probably more fun to beElsa Lanchester.

explore-blog:Did you know that the word “scientist” was coined...

explore-blog:

Did you know that the word “scientist” was coined for reconstructionist Mary Somerville? That’s right, the first “scientist” was a woman.

My daughter’s current favorite school subject is science. Closely followed by dressing up.

Obscure fact of music history: Ben Grimm, founding member of...

Obscure fact of music history: Ben Grimm, founding member of Devo.

Fantastic Four296.

Pencils by John Buscema, inks by Steve Leialoha.

joehillsthrills:To catch you up on current events, the House...

joehillsthrills:

To catch you up on current events, the House Republicans are currently lying on the floor, holding their breath, and turning blue, in a last ditch effort to get someone to make the Affordable Care Act (A/K/A Obamacare) go away. What terrifies them is not the idea that the program will fail, but that, in fact, it will succeed. And the thought of working people, children, and the poor having health coverage makes them panicky for some reason.

To that end, the Tea Party noise mach...

The Ultimate (Frisbee) Argument for Visiting Healthcare.gov

The Ultimate (Frisbee) Argument for Visiting Healthcare.gov :

hodgman:

I didn’t intend to retweet a whole mess of sob stories this morning from young people who thought they were healthy until they got hit by an SUV/bad appendix/thyroid cancer/infection/baby. What a bunch of whiners, right?

All I meant to do was encourage healthy young people and the other people in the world who think they are immortal, who think that health insurance is a luxury that isn’t worth affording, to give that assump...