Posted on tor.com by Irene Gallo, Picturing Ray Bradbury: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/...cturing-ray-bradbury

Abandoned theme park in New Orleans...





More where that came from:

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2...new-orleans-75-pics/

Powerfully crreeepy images! Six Flags has the makings of a new kind of theme park. Imagine if they cleaned this up only enough to make it safe for guests, even accentuated the rundown appearance, and then re-opened it as the Six Flags Haunted Cajun Carnival. (That's probably an example of an idea the public would go wild over but the business types making the decisions would never understand or allow.)

I am also reminded of how much the film Carnival of Souls has a Bradbury flavor. This still you've posted above looks like it could have been taken straight out of Carnival of Souls.

I haven't seen CARNIVAL OF SOULS. I will check it out!

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Originally posted by philnic:
I haven't seen CARNIVAL OF SOULS. I will check it out!

Oh, my - do so! It's both terrifying and surreally beautiful at the same time.

Good to see you posting Douglas Spaulding!
The aforementioned film is available at the Internet Archive:
http://archive.org/details/CarnivalofSouls

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Originally posted by Linnl:
Good to see you posting Douglas Spaulding!
The aforementioned film is available at the Internet Archive:
http://archive.org/details/CarnivalofSouls

Aforementioned is a good word. And thank you!

Quite possibly Ray's thoughts when he first bought his kids a TV. BTW, that isn't one of his kids in the picture, is it?

Let me know if you try this recipe--yum! http://attention2detailblog.bl...ar-skull-recipe.html

Kewl must-have you didn't know existed: http://www.amazon.com/SKELETON...of+the+dead+skeleton

thanks for the sugar skull recipe, dandelion, I just may try it this halloween. They had some at a Dia de Los Muertos celebration I went to a couple of years ago, but they seemed more like for an altar than for eating, so I didn't get one.

I love the sugar skulls in the Halloween Tree animated cartoon.They make such a nice crunch when the kids bite into them.

Available in ceramic, too!



You know, I was trying to figure why the graphics looked so familiar, and then it came to me:

Today's Google Doodle, on the 161st anniversary of the White Whale:

Well, maybe Heinleinesque more than Bradburyesque, but what the heck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nDk_EQQnS8

Looks like it's gonna be an off season!