Time for another Friday #80s Flashback. And this week, we have Simple Minds with their 7th studio release, ONCE UPON A TIME, which turned 40 this week. It features the hits "Alive and Kicking", "Sanctify Yourself", and "All the Things She Said". bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2025/10/friday…

“I am Count Dracula. I am really the bebop vampire.” –Philly Joe Jones (1958) doing his trademark piece of stage patter of imitating Bela Lugosi, THE iconic Dracula. wrti.org/wrti-spotlight…

"100 Years of Women's Work, Reduced to Rubble" – Jessica Yellin and Rohan Montgomery on the history, and recent destruction, of the East Wing. newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/100-years-of…

I think Lex Luthor asked these questions in the wrong order. [Action Comics Vol 1 #658 - 1990] Image: Comic panel. Two people in undergarments enter a room and ask Mr. Luthor for help. Luthor replies with "What are you doing here? And WHERE are your CLOTHES?"

"Yes. Very much so. Books as role models." –Sol [Comic panel from DIE #16; Kieron Gillen (Writer), Stephanie Hans (Artist).]

"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (The X-Files, S3 E4, October 13, 1995) is 30 years old this month, and it still holds up. Image: Bruckman (Peter Boyle) looks at a piece of evidence while Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny) stand in the background and observe.

Pour one out for a legend of rock radio: Pierre Robert (August 1, 1955 – October 29, 2025). RIP. 6abc.com/post/legendary… Image: Photo of Pierre Robert, promotional image from 93.3 WMMR (via Beasley Media Group)

"It was Halloween in the Fortress of Solitude. Trick or Treat, Superman." Action Comics Vol. 2 #13

Liza Donnelly of "Seeing Things" illustrated a short version Heather Cox Richardson's October 28, 2025, installment of Letters from an American: youtube.com/watch?v=3Urwxi…

It's the Friday #80s Flashback for the #Halloween weekend! I pulled a mega-Flashback (six songs) from the archives for you! bookendedbycats.blogspot.com/2025/10/friday…

Caught a bit of last night's sunset's pink reflection on an obelisk in our local cemetery.

Two Oxford professors believed that they accidentally time traveled — And saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles: atlasobscura.com/articles/time-…

It's that time of year again: Vote. (Hulk art by Joe Bennett; word balloon by me.)

#8 at my local polls. (But #1 in your hearts.)