Happy Bloomsday!
The Unpostables
As I wind down operation88, there are a few things that I had lined up that I won’t get around to posting on. Notwithstanding all that might have spiralled up from the depths (or out of the dawn, if so you style it), here are the bulk of The Unpostables:
The Omega Man, Intellivision’s Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Eight Seconds, the Young macDonald and his Farm strip from Cor!, the made4TV atomic experience Special Bulletin, “Keep Them Happy”, Cool World, Beauty and the Beast (1987), “A Pail of Air”, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series, Bauhaus (band), Freddy Krueger, Dungeons & Dragons (TV series), Northern Pikes, Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD & other Terran Trade Authority works, Dungeon Master for Amiga, The Black Sanctum for TRS-80 (1984), The Pink Panther Adventures in Z-Land (Whitman Flip Book, 1976), Starship Invasions (1977), This Can’t Be Happening At Macdonald Hall, Battlestar Galactica (1978), various Dragon magazine articles & modules (frex “Citadel by the Sea”), Dick Tracy: His Greatest Cases #1 (Pruneface, 1975), ColecoVision Wing War, Knights of the Cardboard Castle, Wig Wag candy, 1st edition Top Secret: did I really need to add positron colliders?, The Alien World: The Complete Illustrated Guide, a piggy bank shaped like shoe & what the contents bought, Island of the Blue Dolphins (remember “abalone hunting” in the basement?), Zonguldak & the beard of straw, The Integral Trees (Larry Niven), MuchMusic Video Dance Party, How & Why Wonder Books, various sour candies of the 80s, Cutting Crew, The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Warner Bros., 1964), Luba, Gorilla At Large (1954… 3D!), The Keep (1983), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (comic), One to One (band), The Gnome Mobile, The Two Faces of Tomorrow, Jame Retief of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, The Hitcher (1986), the future I was expecting in 1981: where are the space colonies?, The Terrible Churnadryne (9780671295233), The Avengers (TV series), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial trading cards, Ultima III: Exodus (1983), the perils of integrating Unearthed Arcana into an otherwise healthy campaign, Monkey Shines, Heavy Metal magazine, Warriors of the Wind (1985), listening to Saskatoon TV on the stereo while staring at static on the screen, Anna to the Infinite Power, Dionysus Armageddon & the destruction of Level IV: Botanical Gardens, Rookery, and Managerie, The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T., Grapes of Wrath (the band), Food of the Gods (& other 70’s eco-horror parables), beautiful skin can be a breeze with Sea Breeze… (1985), alot of posts about Space:1999, “Hairy Man popped out of the oven!”, original Stampede Wrestling, Prophecy (1979), “Sands of Mars” & other things about dead astronauts, Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy, when James Bond ripped off Jules Verne, Mork & Mindy, CARToons magazine, promos that passed me in the night (He Knows You’re Alone, Don’t Answer the Phone, The Watcher in the Woods, &c), Howard Jones, Rainbow Brite, Robotech, The Smurfs, Kidd Video, Wax Lips candy, Dragon’s Lair, Hot Wheels, chasing ‘Mr. Matchie’, Galaxian handheld & others (1981-82), Witch World, Ham Hamithy & Giles Hamithy, “Tears Are Not Enough” vs. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, The Tombs of Atuan…
