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When I was young a great chess player told me there's nothing quite like playing a tournament chess game, beyond that nothing quite like winning one, and beyond that nothing quite like playing in a real chess tournament, and even beyond that there's nothing quite like finishing first in one of them....

Looked it up, her name is Veronica Cartwright. She did appear in an Alfred Hitchcock episode. Also she was in the Twilight Zone episode I Sing The Body Electric, where I had her confused with Angela Cartwright. They don't seem to be related. I'd thought Angela was in the 1950s cast of Make Room For ...

Yes!!!

:lol: -- Not a bad idea! Most of the scientists who analyze these things say if such a catastrophe occurred a few milenia later the various pyramids and ancient wonders would still exist all over the earth while -- other than a few large buildings modelled after their ancient predecessors -- there'd...

Losing things to a fire, flood, burglary, vandalism, something similar, is one of my constant worries as well. I cover my house for insurance far above it's probable worth with a thought to what all the books, CDs, DVDs, and my own personal writings that is only on paper, my large collection of ches...

Appreciated. 8) These websites follow a participation pattern, and in the end there's little to no participation to work with. At TWC it went from wildly active it's first six months, to low participation, then nothing, then a comeback, and gradually nothing again. They become fads for people to wan...

I've finally put both The Writing Club , and my wargame site ( Buntaland ) to rest. In both cases the action was long overdue, though it was painful in the case of TWC as it had been very active at one time and used to mean a lot to a lot of people. But, alas, times change and eventually we must cha...

Great hearing from you, Dean. I was worried, as I'm sure were a lot of your other writing friends. -- As far as I know no one has been replaced at MMP. Diana is recovering from an operation. I'm temporarily broke which has our production plans in limbo. Etc & etc. All in all a perfect time to go...

Appreciated. I was sent instructions on where to register; I just copied what I wrote above and will see if I can go there and get it put up. A lot of people seem to have memories of the theater from those days, I'm pretty sure they'll get a kick out of it.

PART TWO After leaving here I looked up my old theater online hoping it had been turned into a restoration. Found a site where it was discussed but couldn't find a way of adding my own reminiscences. So I sent it as an email to the people posting it. My Email: I couldn't find any way of posting a c...

I remember her and the love birds pretty well considering the last time I saw the movie was when it first came out, and I was 11 or 12 or so. I have it on DVD; Marion bought me The Hitchcock Collection box set about ten years ago, haven't watched too many of them since. I'll watch The Birds pretty s...

Bill Mumy was in three great Twilight Zone episodes: the first is about a toy phone given to a boy by his grandmother so she can talk with him from the grave; the second is the one we're talking about, in which the adults keep praising everything he does and saying 'It's good that you did it, Richar...

Yes, except the seven year old boy thinks he's doing wonderful things for the people around him. He only kills if someone is bad; which means going against what he thinks is best for his little feifdom. The girl in the bad seed doesn't have super powers, she's just a killer who does it whenever she ...

After watching all three Village of the Damned movies (see my DVD topic) it's become obvious that this, and a Twilight Zone episode about a 7 year old super child who is also a local monster, are the origins of my idea for The Trouble With Smart People novelette (Worlds of Wonder mag 2007, Better Fi...

Started writing my new writing journal today and putting the finishing touches on my standing desk. Haven't posted the journal entries, will probably do so later at The Writing Club. At least one of the memories goes back to when I was two years old, leaning too far over my crib to watch televevisio...