“Weird Science”

From FB:

“In the early 1980s, Hollywood mega-producer Joel Silver acquired the film rights to all titles published under the banner of EC Comics, including a lesser known title called ‘Weird Science.’ Silver approached John Hughes about developing these titles into features, and Hughes eagerly accepted.

Hughes wrote the script for ‘Weird Science’ in a brisk two days, hanging his story loosely on ‘Made of the Future,’ (1951) a story from the comic that revolved around a robot woman.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

Vienna, Virginia (2012)

I built these bat houses.

We never got any bats.

Still Valid

London, United Kingdom (2005)

From FB:

“I took this pictuee right after I almost got run down by a troop of the Queen’s Household Cavalry, who shouted at me, “MAKE WAY FOR THE QUEEN’S GUARD!”

St. Dunstan’s Day

From FB:

“May 19th is celebrated as St. Dunstan’s Day in the English churches and institutions that bear his name. Born in Somerset in the early 10th Century, Dunstan became abbot at Glastonbury Abbey in 945 CE and later Archbishop of Canterbury, where he instituted a number of major reforms, some of which were unpopular, including the revival of monasticism in England and the obligatory payment of tithes by landowners. Patron saint of goldsmiths, his emblem is a pair of metalworker’s tongs.

According to Devonshire legend, St. Dunstan was a keen brewer of beer who made a pact with the Devil to ensure the destruction of the apple crop on which his rivals, the cider makers, depended. In exchange for St. Dunstan’s soul, the Devil agreed to blight the apple trees with frost on May 17th, 18th, and 19th at the height of their blossom.

In the two-part Hellboy mini-series “Box Full of Evil” Hellboy and Abe Sapien are investigating a strange break-in in an English house. The owner relates that a thief entered his house, broke down a wall over the fire place and left with a metal box and a pair of tongs. Hellboy notices that the broken wall one had a portrait of St. Dunstan on it, and the owner tells him that the house had once been a convent. The owner also relates to Hellboy that he received a vision of a sinister looking house.

The story cuts to the thief, Igor Bromhead, speaking to a couple in the aforementioned sinister looking house. He explains that St. Dunstan caught a demon with his tongs and trapped it inside the metal box. The demon ends up being released, Hellboy is almost beaten to death with the tongs, and a demonic monkey shoots Abe Sapien and drags him away.

It’s also the birthday of Pete Townshend. Long Live Rock.”