Moon – Fists and .45s!

Music Out of the Moon

On: December 30, 2021September 23, 2021 By: Romeyn

Music Out of the Moon by Harry Revel (Composer), Les Baxter (Arranger/Conductor)

Weird Tales, May, 1923

On: October 30, 2021August 15, 2021 By: Romeyn

Weird tales, May, 1923 featuring The Moon Terror, A stupendous Novel of the World’s End.

Soviet Cities on the Moon?

On: May 19, 2021January 5, 2021 By: Romeyn

Science Digest, Feb, 1958

We advertise our failures, but the Soviets don’t. For all we know, Moscow’s scientists and engineers did try to shoot a rocket to the moon last November 7, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Communist seizure of power in Russia, but failed.

You will recall that for a while, during that weekend, some mysterious radio signals were heard from outer space. They were not accountable by the two Sputniks, and soon they faded out.

We may surmise that, in their try for the moon, the Soviet shooting team took a wrong aim, and that the rocket they fired is now either orbiting around the sun or is lost in space…

Ella Raines

On: October 14, 2020June 29, 2020 By: Romeyn

Promotional shot of Ella Raines for the Strange Affair of Uncle Henry, 1945

Rocketing to the Moon, 1930

On: June 27, 2020April 28, 2020 By: Romeyn

Artists conception of Professor Goddard’s rocket ship to the moon. It was estimated the rocket would have an average speed of 4650 MPH and would make the trip to the moon in 48 hours.

When the Moon Comes Down, 1936

On: October 7, 2019September 25, 2019 By: Romeyn

ASTRONOMERS like to scare their hearers from time to time, like the old-fashioned nurse telling children about ogres, with pictures of the end of the world. It may be burnt up by the exploding sun, or frozen by the sun’s extinction (though the latter is less probable); it may lose all its air by radiation into space, and chemical absorption into the earth. But, at the close, the audience is reassured that their fear of its happening in a million years is baseless—that the earth has at least ten million years of existence ahead—and they go away relieved.

The Man in the Moon is Dying, 1913

On: July 29, 2019July 18, 2019 By: Romeyn

From the Wheeling Intelligencer., March 22, 1913

The Old Fellow who has been the source of countless songs, stories and superstitions for ages will soon have passed away — The ugly crab is eating him.

Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921

On: July 20, 2019November 27, 2019 By: Romeyn

(Note: Truck Farm – A small farm producing vegetables for commercial sale, usually to local markets.)

WE have all seen the Man In In the Moon. So we know there is a man. But is he alive? And is he a truck gardener? That’s some thing different again.

Well, Prof. William II. Pickering of Harvard says there is vegetable life on the moon. He doesn’t say there are cultivated crops, but he insists on the lunar vegetation. And he takes particular pains not to say that there is intelligent animal life on the moon. One thing is sure Professor Pickering is one of the greatest living astronomers and has been studying the moon pretty steadily for two years. Continue reading “Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921” →