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- ️Mon Jun 20 2022
Heritage Auctions is selling the highest-graded copy of Marvel Super Special #1, which featured KISS, and they posted this article about the comic, in which writer Alan Weiss describes how it came to be. Well worth the read, IMO!
This year was off to a fun start. I was invited to be a guest on two podcasts to discuss Planet of the Apes, and the website Horror to Culture interviewed me about Planet of the Apes and my connection to Robert McCammon.
Check them out, if you’re interested!
Horror to Culture: Ape-Mania: A Discussion W/ Hunter Goatley (April 23, 2024)
In March 2024, the Sequel Rights podcast was covering the Planet of the Apes films. Episode 245 covered Planet, and their special guest was Brian Penakis. Episode 247 covered Escape, and they asked to interview me about the Archive site. My segment starts at the one-hour mark. This interview was posted on March 20, 2024.
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to me ramble about PLANET OF THE APES for almost two hours, here’s your chance! 
Yesterday, I was a guest on the Transatlantic History Ramblings podcast, with host Brian Young. We talked about the entire APES franchise, and it’s amazing how little ground you can cover in only two hours. Still, if you’re a glutton for punishment, you might want to check it out.
The interview starts at the 35:30 mark. It was posted on February 8, 2024.
My friend Bert Edens has put together a horror anthology of stories inspired by the music of Alice Cooper. Dismember the Coop will be released on February 15, 2024, and some of the proceeds will benefit the Solid Rock Foundation, which runs teen centers and was founded by the Coopers.
For full details, including ordering links, visit Bert’s website.
To order, you can also click here.
Albert Pyun’s 1982 film The Sword and the Sorcerer has been one of my favorite films since I first saw it in its opening weekend. I have a few items related to the film. My most recent acquisition is the UK Press Book for the film, which provided theater owners with promotional information and advertising images. I also have a vintage Japanese program that was published to promote the film. Click on the images or links below to view the books and/or download PDF and CBZ files.
Since originally posting this on April 5, I’ve added scans of the French lobby cards, as well as scans of the packaging for the two CD releases of the soundtrack!
2022-06-20: Scans of seven U.S. promotional stills have been added.
2022-11-29: Newspaper ad templates from the press kit have been added.
2023-03-18: Scans of the UK Lobby Cards have been added.
2024-10-21: Scans of the UK 4K UHD/BD Limited Edition Box Set from 101 Films have been added.
The Sword and the Sorcerer Ephemera
Albert Pyun died on Saturday, November 26, 2022. RIP, Albert.
At the end of May 2021, I launched a new archive website devoted to the 1976 film King Kong. I was 12 when it came out, and I loved it. It was the first film I saw in a theater twice. All of these years later, I still love it.
Over the decades, I have held on to some Kong stuff I had back then, as well as expanded my collection. I finally decided to share what I have with other fans of the film. You can find scans of newspaper and magazine articles, books, bubble gum cards, scripts, home video releases, and much more.
My ninth article for VAX Professional was entitled “VMS Privilege Masks,” and it explained the various privileges VMS supported and how they were set and cleared. Most of this information is still accurate.
With Alice Cooper at the Grand Ole Opry, August 4, 2019
I’ve been very lucky to get to meet and to know, to some degree, Alice Cooper.
After the opening of his Theatre of Death Tour in 2009, his managers, Shep Gordon and Toby Mamis, invited me to write a blog post about the night for Alice’s website. I did, and then I wrote similar posts for three other great experiences I had.
The First Time I Met Alice Cooper – September 30, 2000
Wonders in AliceLand – July 30, 2009
The Opening of the No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour – May 12, 2011 (the time our intrepid hero had his own personal concert)
The Original Alice Cooper Group – May 14, 2017 (and Lynda Carter, too!)
I’ve seen a total of 30 Alice Cooper concerts, plus two dress rehearsals and the original group performance described in the 2017 post above.
Two in one day! My fourth VAX Professional article was about the callable TPU interface. TPU stands for Text Processing Utility, and it was a language introduced in VAX/VMS V4.2 for writing editors. The EVE editor was written in TPU, and it was easy to extend or modify EVE by writing new TPU routines or modifying the existing routines. My FLIST program was also written in TPU (and C).
In addition to describing the callable interface, I provided a MACRO module that provided a simplified callable TPU interface. The article describes why I did that.
After way too long, I’ve finally posted another of my vintage articles originally published in VAX Professional.
The Extended LOGIN Program details a MACRO program I wrote to perform the functions of my LOGIN.COM. Back when I was working on a VAX 11/785 and a VAX 11/730, some serious performance gains could be achieved by replacing LOGIN.COM with a program, depending on what your LOGIN.COM did. Mine defined dozens of logicals and symbols, set terminal characteristics, and lots more. As noted in the article, the head of Professional Press told me that his login time dropped from 15 seconds to 5 seconds when he replaced his LOGIN.COM with LOGIN.MAR.
You won’t see those kinds of dramatic increases on modern OpenVMS systems, but it’s still a lot faster and more efficient to use a program.
Rick Baker has had an amazing career, and I’ve been a fan of his for ages. He has a new, two-volume book out now, Metamorphosis, and he’s been doing interviews to promote it. Great stuff here!
The video below is a 20-minute excerpt from Joe Rogan’s interview with Rick that’s all about An American Werewolf in London.
Some of the other, long interviews recently are: