Calvin and Hobbes of the Day (May 23rd 2016)

Your Calvin and Hobbes of the Day (08/11/15)

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

December 26th 1988

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Rain Man

1988

Winner of the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Levinson), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) and Best Original Screenplay at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989.

1988 MLB All Star Game MVP

Terry Steinbach 

Catcher

(Oakland Athletics)

Winner of the 1988 Major League Baseball 

All Star Game MVP

The Great American Race - 1988 Daytona 500

More Throwback Thursday

Ten years after his first Daytona 500 victory, Bobby Allison would get his 3rd and last victory with the 1988 Daytona 500 .  

 He would share this with his son, Davey Allison in his 2nd 500, who finished 2nd behind his father.

Grateful Dead Gold Records

The members of the Grateful Dead along with Clive Davis, President of Arista Records, show off their Gold records in 1988

Flashback - Billboard Top 10 Singles - 11/12/1988

Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 R.I.P.

We lost one of the greatest writers the US has ever produced in Ray Bradbury.  He died yesterday at the age of 91 in California.

Read his obituary in the LA Times.

I became aware of him and also became a big fan when I was a teenager and read "The Illustrated Man".  Those stories were incredible and especially "The Veldt" , With its technology gone wrong plot, this was a prime example of what others called the "Bradbury last sentence twist".  This was adapted for the radio show Dimension X  in 1951.   After reading this story I couldn't put the book down and soon was looking for all the Bradbury collections in my library.



In the mid 80s HBO ran a great show called "Ray Bradbury Theater"  and then it moved to the USA Network from 1988 to 1992.  All episodes were written by Mr. Bradbury with most being adapted from short stories or novels he had written.
One of the stories adapted was "The Small Assassin"  from 1946 that had been back in 1953 for the EC comic book "Shock SuspenStories" issue #7 and then adapted again for television for the second season of "Ray Bradbury Theater".

 

 


The world is a little sadder today without Ray Bradbury churning out fantasy and suspense stories to keep you up at night.