Mark CMG Clover

Mark CMG Clover

@markcmg.bsky.social

Host of The Okay Grognard Network, lives in Lake Geneva, WI, and Owner of Creative Mountain Games

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My first experience of classic monsters being treated humorously was in the Abbott and Costello horror-comedy films from the 1940s which I saw 3 decades later. Did the further humanization of the "monsters" through animation lessen their value or extend their reach or have some other effect?

Well, who do you think just got a little older today? If it isn't our old pal, Solomon Bandy of Black Oak Workshop! Maybe today is the day some of us can pop on over to the shop and drop a few coins in his coffers so he can celebrate in style! blackoakworkshop.com

This week has me thinking about some folks who are gone with Jennell Jaquays Day coming Wednesday, it being just one year tomorrow when we lost Rob Wielend at 48 years old, and Jennell's spouse Rebecca Heineman passing not long after in November last year. Roll some dice in their honor this week!

I've been a fan of George Carlin since the early 70s when my folks only knew him from his suit and tie days and didn't screen the new albums before I got them.

Season four of Star Trek Strange New Worlds was entertaining but I think I really only fully invested in three of the episodes: S4.E6 Off-Hour, S4.E8 Orders of Magnitude (2026), and S4.E10 Tomorrow's Enterprise. The others felt a bit like filler but fun at times. www.imdb.com/title/tt1232...

Creature Features on WGN-TV Channel 9 premiered on Saturday night, September 19, 1970, at 10:30 pm. The show ran classic monster movies from the Universal Studios library: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Wolf Man, and more!