BEYOND THE ETHER (1898) – Written by W. Cairns Johnston. This little honey is so jam-packed with enjoyable weirdness that it’s sort of like “If Ed Wood wrote Steam-Punk.”
Two friends from Harvard reunite on a camping and mountain-climbing trip. In Maine they discover a mysterious new gas which erupts from the ground. The pair study the gas and decide to use its lighter than air properties to visit other planets in our solar system.
In a cosmic-level coincidence our heroes later stumble upon a previously unknown plant here on Earth. The plant can be used to induce suspended animation for space travel and to heal grievous injuries. The incredibly lucky explorers leave the Earth on board their balloon propelled by their new gas.
At 30,000 feet they use their newly-discovered plant to put themselves into suspended animation for their trip to Mars. More than three years later they wake up as they enter the atmosphere of the Red Planet. Clumsily, our space pioneers fall out of their balloon’s basket and land in the nest of a gigantic Martian eagle. Continue reading
Real DEMOCRAT scandals continue to be ignored. Meanwhile, Trump-haters continue pursuing their hilarious conspiracy theories regarding United States President Donald Trump and the Russians … or old real estate deals … or any other absurd notion that Mueller and his staff of Hillary Clinton donors come up with.
Anyway, Imran Awan was arrested trying to flee the country a few days ago. Awan’s ties to the Democratic National Committee and especially to the disgraced Debbie Wasserman Schultz have been getting explored – largely overseas – by REAL journalists. 
DELIA B HASKETT – “Dusty Delia” Haskett was the first woman to transport the U.S. mail via stagecoach. Delia was born in December of 1861 in Ukiah, California to businessman Samuel Haskett and schoolteacher Miranda Haskett. 
AVENGERS Volume 1, Number 130 (December 1974) The Reality Problem 
Mantis, who was proven to be the mysterious Celestial Madonna that Kang is after, realized how much she really loved the Swordsman, despite her recent callousness toward him while she tried to romance the Vision away from the Scarlet Witch. She deeply regretted her actions, pleading with her dying lover to forgive her and to chalk it all up to her youthful pride. 
*** Exactly WHY Moon Dragon and the Scarlet Witch were having parallel experiences to Mantis’ own is still not known, either, but those parallel experiences added to the mystery of which one of them was really the Celestial Madonna. 
Balladeer’s Blog’s initial set of sarcastic new slogans for the Democrats was such a hit here are some more. As always my criticism of the DemoKKKrats is in NO WAY an endorsement of Republican politicians, who are just like the piece of garbage Paul Ryan. 
The NAIA’s LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY BLUE DEVILS – after a seven decade hiatus – will be fielding a football team! 
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