everyday is halloween

the ray bradbury theater intro

i was a shitty student.  but i became a passionate reader at age 16 & tried my hand at fiction.  ray bradbury was my man at the time.  i loved - still love - his thickly descriptive prose style & his deeply wild imagination.  bradbury was a writer of dark fantasy, & a keen lover of halloween, autumnal light, the fancies of children, silver rocket ships & the red grit of martian soil.  in fact, it was bradbury's the martian chronicles that turned me on to poetry.  i read in wonder the brief prose poems that punctuated bradbury's stories about the red planet.  later i discovered ray bradbury published poetry too.  as i said, i was a terrible student, lazy, unfocused, rambling but i fell in love with literature & writing.  i knew a writer didn't need to have a formal education or degree.  but i didn't know any writers.  i've never met another human being who loved poetry too.  so when i saw this intro to the ray bradbury theater hosted by the man himself i was beside myself with excitement.  i can see & hear my hero as he explores his own magician's toy shop writing studio.  this TV show was the confirmation i needed to start my own life in poetry, & my beloved genre of horror.  as bradbury says himself, the journey is exactly one half exhilaration & exactly one half terror.  

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