If you live in or travel to San Diego you must go to Filippi's Pizza Grotto.

This was Ray's favorite Italian Restaurant in San Diego, and went there every Comic-Con.

Not to mention the food was pretty darn good.

http://realcheesepizza.com/web/locations/SD.html

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Originally posted by jkt:
If you live in or travel to San Diego you must go to Filippi's Pizza Grotto.

This was Ray's favorite Italian Restaurant in San Diego, and went there every Comic-Con.

Not to mention the food was pretty darn good.

http://realcheesepizza.com/web/locations/SD.html

As I recollect, it was!

If anybody has a blank wall looking for something:

http://www.captainco.com/colle...imon-thorpe-bradbury

Buy one, get one free.

Ray would have loved this "holiday."

http://nationaldayofunplugging.com/

Then again, how many people have sat at a French café, in France, with friends Walter Cronkite and Pierre Salinger?

Over at Listen to the Echoes author and Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller has announced the digital release of "Roadside Cross".

You can preorder it at Amazon for kindle-download. If you don't have a kindle, like me, Amazon has an app for computers.

Going on in Los Angeles right now is the 1st Annual Sci-Fest. It is a series of science fiction plays. One of them being presented is Kaleidoscope: http://www.sci-fest.com/#!evening-a/c3n0

Fair Warning: I'll be attending this Sunday's matinee.

For more info: http://www.sci-fest.com/#

A clip with actor Derek Jacobi (Captain Wilder!) on the BBC Radio 4's forthcoming "The Martian Chronicles":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020rk1x

As philnic has blogged over at his Bradbury Media site "The Illustrated Man" as adapted by Brain Sibley begins this Saturday!

For this week Mr. Sibley is posting some history of his adaptations of Ray Bradbury to radio. You can listen to each and they are all outstanding!

http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/

...and here an allusion to "Rocket Summer"!?

http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-ma...-mars-075509460.html

I'm sure Ray would have been invited to see the arrival last night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN

I trust everybody watched last night's Simpson's Tree House of Horror. In it Bart goes to school in Hell and among his required reading was Fahrenheit 451,000. The Clockwork Orange episode was pretty good also.

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Originally posted by jkt:
I trust everybody watched last night's Simpson's Tree House of Horror. In it Bart goes to school in Hell and among his required reading was Fahrenheit 451,000. The Clockwork Orange episode was pretty good also.

Very fine.

New York Times' review of the Tim Robbins' audio recording of F451.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11...im-robbins.html?_r=0

If you are looking for the perfect gift for that certain someone...and that someone could be you...may I suggest...

http://www.whitmorerarebooks.c...ce&keywordsField=451

My copy of "Ray Bradbury, The Last Interview and Other Conversations" by Sam Weller arrived today.

"...perfect gift for that certain someone" ~ Our boys indicated they would have the above wrapped and under the tree in a few weeks!!!
WOW!