#The Ray Bradbury Theatre

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‘The Witch’s Curse’ Murder, She Wrote guest stars:

Mary Crosby returns (Dallas, ST:DS9, Brothers & Sisters, The Love Boat, Stagecoach, Lois & Card, Burke’s Law, etc. Also, Bing Crosby’s daughter, Denise Crosby’s aunt)

Robert Vaugn (The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno, Superman III, An American Affair, Hustle, The Nanny, Law & Order, Diagnosis Murder, Escape to Witch Mountain, Perry Mason, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The A-Team, etc)

S8 E12 12 Jan 1992

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Ray Bradbury

[carcarrot]

i do think we really need to bring back anthology tv shows where every episode is just a little story where its just like damn! wouldnt it be fucked up if that happened? anyway,

[do-you-know-this-play]

[buttercupadventures]

We watched Fahrenheit 451 at a local theatre tonight. It was a small production but very veeery good. All the actors were so talented! Maybe it's time to return to my theatre enthusiast era?

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #372

An end of week recap “If you can’t write freely and if you can’t speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country.” – Mehmet Murat ildan This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers…

[barcodeboy]

I'm so excited

the cast of a show I'm in are going to get stick and pokes together

[kenobers]

✨Jason Todd's Bookshelf✨

i think it's so interesting to see what books Jason Todd would read/own, so here's my own contribution! some of these are canon* (hence the *), some are popular headcanons and some are my own speculation. i'll probably continue to add to this.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*

1984 by George (Wh)Orwell*

The Prince by Machiavelli*

The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

Hamlet*

An additional complete works of William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

i think Holden Caulfield secretly reminds him of Bruce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka

specifically owns a copy that has both of them in there

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

this may be a bit on the nose, but Jason would love a good satire

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibu Tufail

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

but lowkey he hates it

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Iliad by Homer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

i don't see Jason as being a big fantasy/sci-fi guy unless it falls under the magical realism or gothic categories (i.e, Beloved, Frankenstein), however i do think he would jive with Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and (unfortunately) Harlan Ellison

i can also see him jiving with R.F Kuang and i think The Poppy War specifically would be an exception to his usual disinterest in fantasy

i think he maybe also has a stash of paperback Star Wars novels stashed away somewhere

if jason is a theatre kid into adulthood, i think he would be the kind that reads solely straight plays

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Complete Works of Arthur Miller

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

he typically avoids stuff that’s so directly about mortality, but this play would really resonate with him and honestly be a healing read

being the hater that he is, he's also hate read at least one Collen Hoover book (and promptly left it in the Batcave to frame Bruce for the crime)

[weyounpussyindulgence]

Here, have some Dr East headcanons I came up with over the years

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- I have no clue how real Zoanoid names work, but I feel like he’d use the name Henry as a part of his nom de plume. Something like Henry B. East

- He collects bizarre/silly neckties. The more peculiar and novelty the design, the better

- Even though he’s the head of CHRONOS’ Genetics Department, he doesn’t get the respect he deserves from Balcus or the other Zoanoids. Lisker, Ramsey, Striker and Weber have shoved him into a locker and stuck his head in a toilet many times

- He’s bisexual. Look at his interaction with Dr. Gordon and tell me that they haven’t explored each other’s bodies at least once

- He’s primarily a carnivore, but eats a lot of pre-made salad kits and fruits. His favorite mixes are chicken ceaser, avocado ranch with bacon, and his favorite fruits are apples, dragonfruit and nectarines

- Speaking of carnivorous, I have no clue if this is canon in the manga or not, but I feel like Zoanoids eat humans. So when he’s getting his apartment broken into or something, he turns into his goat monster form and will eat the burglar

- I feel like he listens to a lot of classical music because it helps him relax and focus. He also listens to old science fiction radio dramas like the Twilight Zone radio dramas, X Minus One and Ray Bradbury Theatre.

- He keeps a goldfish as a pet since they don’t have a huge attention span, so it won’t pay any attention if he changes form

- Sometimes when he laughs, he bleats like a goat. He gets very insecure about it though because he’s been mocked for it

- He’s lactose intolerant. Idk how else to elaborate, it just makes sense to me. It’s not life threatening or anything, but it does cause him a lot of tummy trouble

- Also speaking of tummy trouble, I firmly believe that with the superior technology the Zoanoids have at CHRONOS, he never died from being gutted from the inside. Dr Gordon was able to patch him up and do some organ transplants. Then they kept him on life support until he woke up from a 30 day coma/recovery period (he has a big scar on his lower chest and stomach from it though). He then resigned and collected a severance package and now lives a happy semi normal life somewhere off the grid safe from the Guyver

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

Books, So Many Books

The Bedside Pile

~ Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

~ The Once And Future King by T. H. White

~ Silas Marner by George Elliot

~ Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

Physical TBR

~ The Mammoth Hunters by Jean Auel

~ Plains Of Passage by Jean Auel

~ Shelters Of Stone by Jean Auel

~ Land Of The Painted Caves by Jean Auel

~ As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

~ On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

~ Here I Am by Jonathan Foer

~ A Killer Choice by Tom Hunt

~ Cold Heart by Linda LaPlante

~ Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

~ Brothers by Bernice Rubens

~ The Hickory Staff by Robert Scott

~ The Farm by Tom Smith

~ The Master Of Ballantre by Robert L. Stevenson

~ Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

~ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

~ The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Storygraph TBR

~ The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

~ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

~ Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

~ Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

~ Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

~ Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro

~ The Gospel Of The Eels by Patrik Svensson

~ The End Of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

~ Orlando by Virginia Woolf

~ Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi

~ The Ritual by Adam Nevill

~ Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

~ Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

~ The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

~ Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

~ Battle Royale by Koushin Takami

~ What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

~ The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

~ American Prometheus by Kai Bird

~ Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

~ The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

~ Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

[artistsonthelam]

I just met my childhood hero, R.L. Stine!! I can die happy and haunt a house now.

The funny thing is I bought the book for him to sign (picked one of my childhood favorites, Stay Out of the Basement) at the event; despite having read every single book in the original series as a kid, I’d never actually owned one. You see, every Saturday afternoon, starting when I was 6, my dad would bring me to our local library; there, he’d pick out 7 picture books, one for him to read to me each night, while I’d make a beeline to where the chapter books were and grab the latest 2 or so Goosebumps acquisitions (it was so satisfying when I’d open them up and see that no one else had checked them out before). I’d spend a couple hours there and read them on the spot; my favorite place to do so was on a rocking chair underneath a Mother Goose mobile in the middle of a sunny, seemingly private corner of the children’s section. When I was done I’d go find my dad in the history section (dads, am I right?). I also have fond memories reading the choose-your-own adventure ones there; I’d end up keeping all my fingers and about a million bookmarks at each junction so if I met an untimely demise or was curious about the other outcomes I’d go back and make a different choice. The peak of all this was when I was 9 and in 4th Grade. (I did also check some of them out though; I have memories reading Night of the Living Dummy in bed (who could forget Slappy’s face on the cover?).)

R.L. Stine inspired me to be a writer. And his writing style was a huge influence on my own writing back then (those cliff-hangers at the end of each chapter!).

And: Yesterday was his 81st birthday!

At the Chicago Humanities Festival | R.L. Stine: A Modern Master of Horror at Music Box Theatre (filled with possibly the highest concentration of fellow Millennials—the moderator was Gen X and asked if anyone in the audience was and was met with silence—and some kids of 90s Kids), which included a pre-event Book Fair, a screening of the first episode of a new Goosebumps show (which I didn’t know existed), a talk (he has a background in comedy and was SO funny—pretty much every answer he gave had us rolling with laughter), and (for a number of lucky folks including myself) a post-event Meet & Greet!

I made sure to sit near the front. When R.L. Stine entered the theater and made his way onto the stage to thunderous applause, I unexpectedly fought back tears.

R.L. Stine said during the talk that his literary inspiration was Ray Bradbury, that when he met him he told him he was his hero, and that Bradbury’s response made him burst into tears. At the Meet & Greet, I told Bob that how he felt about Ray Bradbury was how I felt about him. He was so gracious and told me I was so nice and thanked me, and I told him he was my hero and thanked him, and I could feel myself getting emotional. I started walking away before I could burst into tears myself haha.

They say to never meet your heroes. Not the case with R.L. Stine.

(P.S. We weren’t allowed to take photos with him—understandable because if everyone did the line would’ve gone way more slowly—so have a creep shot instead (and yes, the people in front of me were dressed as Slappy and the Haunted Mask!).)

[Edit: Thank you for retweeting me, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Humanities Festival, and Do312, and thank you for sharing my Instagram post in your stories, Music Box Lounge!]

// (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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Eddie Albert guest stars in the Ray Bradbury Theatre. He plays a man from 2025 who goes back in time to beg his younger self not to kill their wife.

‘A Touch of Petulance’

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Ray Bradbury

[heavensmortuary]

Have you watched the ray bradbury theatre series? I think you'd like them, they're a bit off

I haven't! I'll have to check those out!! I love anthologies so it seems like something I'd like

[do-you-know-this-play]

[jproads]

“And then he knew. Inside each man, though he did not know it, nor ever considered it, was the image of the woman he someday must love. Whether she was composed of all the music he had ever heard or all of the trees he had ever seen or all the friends of his childhood, certainly no one could tell. Whether the eyes were his mother's, and the chin that of a girl cousin swimming in a summer lake twenty-five years ago, this was unknowable also. But most men carried this image, like a locket, like a pearl-cameo, in their head a lifetime, taking it out only rarely, taking it out never, after marriage, afraid then to compare it to the reality. And most men never saw the woman they would love anywhere, in the dark theatre, in a book, or passing on the street. They saw her only after midnight when the city was asleep and the pillow was cool under their heads. And she was a composite of all dreams and all women and every moonlight night since the calendar began.”

— Ray Bradbury, Summer Morning, Summer Night