Mansfield laundromat contains hate speech
Regarding the constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning
Real storm wasn’t a blizzard: School violence
Paradox and parallels - the death of Gerald Ford and execution of Saddam Hussein
Reflections At Ground Zero eleven days after 9/11/2001 A MUST READ
Real Story This Christmas 2004
Hey everyone, come to the guns and knives trade show!
Y2K: Off on the right foot
Star Trek actor George Takei "comes out" and demonstrates Infinite Diversity
Zero Tolerance in Schools
Wardrobe Malfunction?!
Stop the cycle of school bullying and violence
After 9/11: The scales of justice?
Eminem
2000 Presidential election
Hurricane Safety
MBTA: Bad Transit
MBTA: More Bad Transit
MBTA: Even More Bad Transit
Early morning lunar elcipse is beautiful
Technology Unchained (or, I remember when...)
Practicing Skiing At The Old Mountain Home
Memories Of Intensive Care Nursery at Saint Margaret's Hospital Dorchester
Two Styles Of Parenting
The old Dorchester neighborhood
Another Day Of Little Miracles
Lottery Folly
Remembering the Old Man of the Mountains
Another Precious Life Gone Up In Smoke
Can You Hear Me Now? Put down the damn cell phone!
In Deep Mid Winter
You Can Go Home Again; returning to Saint Kevin School after 25 years
Foul Language -- fond memories of BC High Honors English and Father Larry Corcoran
Great Blizzard Of 1978, 25 Years Later
You are the weakest link, goodbye!
Mr. Gillis Wild Ride -- working in Boston
Celebrating Mom and Pop stores
Schoolwork in summer? Let kids be kids
Reflections At Ground Zero eleven days after 9/11/2001 A MUST READ
Dream Come True Meeting Joanna Cameron, star of Isis
Time to let the Star Trek franchise rest in peace... Unless...
Reflections on the April Fool's Blizzard of 1997
Colin At Age Two
The Parodox of Two Dads
Mother And Child Reunion Survives passage of times A MUST READ
Reconnecting with Sue’s Mom on the farm (and the Disney Saga)
Babysitting Colin
My wife opens Puffins Gourmet Cafe
Letter To Mom On Christmas Day 2005
Remembering Dad on Father's Day
Do not attempt! Professional Driver!
EXCLUSIVE Britney Spears update!
Slow News Day This Is An Attempt To Collect Debt
Bad Technology Day
Elevator Woes
Treadmill For Dogs
When Bad Colds Happen To Good People
What Happened To Spring?
Handy Guide To Car Repair
Get On the Spaceship
Breaking News! SNOW In Boston! LIVE cover
Sharpen Those Interviewing Skills!
Nine planets no more: Earth's planetary status revoked!
Fugutive from justice (or the day I got my car inspected)!
April Fools Day Humor: This Day in History
Rejected Harry Potter TitlesJJ Abrams new Star Trek movie teaser trailer -- where was the Enterprise built, anyway?
Star Trek: First Contact Review
Star Trek: Insurrection Review
Star Wars Episode 1 Phantom Menace Review
Superman Returns Non-Spoiler Review
Superman Returns Detailed Review with major spoilers
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Review
Retro-Review: A Christmas Carol (Owen - 1938)
Retro Review: A Christmas Carol (Stewart - 1999)
Review: Hogan's Heroes Endgame
Album Review: Bruce Springsteen "Magic" (October 2007) Review: Jimmy Buffet at the Tweeter Center Mansfield Mass 2006
Review: Bon Jovi at Gillette Foxboro 6/2006 - have a Nice Day
Review: Bruce Springsteen With The Seeger Sessions Band Mansfield 5/27 2006
Review: Bruce Springsteen at Bank North Garden Boston 10/28/2005 - Devils and Dust
Review: Bruce Springsteen at Boston Fleet Center 9/27/1999 - E StreetReview: Bruce Springsteen at Gillette Stadium Foxboro 8/1 and 8/2/2003 - Rising
Review: Bruce Springsteen at Dunkin Donuts Center Providence 3/10/2003 - Rising
Review: Bruce Springsteen Tracks
Remembering George Reeves, an all too human hero
Remembering Lorraine And Stanley Garland
Remarkable man, remarkable life: Remembering Jerry Rodman
Remembering Pope John Paul II
In loving memory Of Father John Joseph Kierce
In loving memory of Father Clement Pellitier, SJ
Auction to benefit the Doolittle Home Foxboro 2008
My very first Reporter column: Support Your Seniors!
Easter 2001: Remembering Lorraine and Stanley Garland
My first town meeting
Journalistic Integrity?
Support Building The New Senior Center
Foxboro First Night Says Farewell
Foxboro Senior Center Christmas Faire
Foxboro Founders Day 2004
Foxboro Jaycees Pancake Breakfast to benefit Foxboro Youth Basketball - 2003
Auction To Benefit The Doolittle Home - 2007
Sign overkill spoils the beauty of Foxboro Common
Lynda Walsh for Foxboro Selectman - 2007
Jaycees and Orpheum team up for new Haunted House 2006
Jaycee Haunt Moves To Walpole 2005
Jaycee Haunted House 2003
Jaycee Haunted House 2002
Foxboro Jaycees Haunted House 2001
And Soon the Darkness
Foxboro Jaycees Haunted House 1997Jaycee Pancake Breakfast 2003About the Foxboro Jaycees
The History of Halloween
Samhain (Halloween) in Salem
A very different look at "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (Parody/Satire)
Yes Virginia I wrote a Christmas column
Um, about that Christmas Card I didn't send you...
Finding Perfect Christmas Tree
Remembering Christmas shopping in Boston -- A letter to Mom, Christmas 2005
Miracle Of Christmas Is Hope And Love (The fall)
Merry Christmas NOT Happy Holidays
Real Story This Christmas 2004
Halifax Says Thank You With Tree
Help Needy At Christmas
Advent Wreath
History of Christmas Traditions
Thanksgiving Subs - 1997
Century Of Memories
Video and Transcript: Robert Gillis guest of the TV talk show, Charlie Masison’s "Behind the Scenes" discusses "Nana" book (one hour show)
Press Release for my book, Nana
Why I wrote the Nana book
Looking for pictures of Uphams Corner Dorchester 1970-1980
The Super Monkey from Krypton or On fanfiction.net
A fond, and not too serious, look back at the science and absurdity of Beppo, the super monkey from Krypton. Some Superman stories don’t hold up as well thirty years later.
Looking back at the irresistible Lois Lane or On fanfiction.net
Another fond, and not too serious, look back at the silver age story in which Lois Lane rescues Superman from a Kryptonite deathtrap very, very, very slowly.
The Silver Age Superboy! or fanfiction.net
My great love for the Silver-Age comic book stories (particularly Superman) knows no end - I grew up with them and loved them despite the veritable ton of exposition, the preposterous stories, the ridiculous situations, the insane amount of information and implausibility crammed into every panel. And Superboy, well, he was the king of the genre!
Back in the 1980s, my friends and I liked to write stories featuring ourselves in science fiction adventures. As we went our separate ways to college, writing these silly stories was one way for us to keep in touch and continue the madness. There are a billion in-jokes and "you had to be there" moments in these but I’m not changing a thing – this is how we were. Every character in this story is based upon a high school friend. Some names have been changed so I don’t get yelled at.
The Dolphins of Persephone by Robert Gillis (1988)
This adventure begins with the destruction of Earth’s solar system, and chronicles our heroes’ quest to restore the timeline and save eight billion lives on two planets. John gets the girl, Bob flies the Enterprise, and for once, JB's blowing up a planet is a good thing.
New Genesis by Robert Gillis (1986)
Paralleling a certain Star Trek film as our heroes attempt to save two friends -- one alive, one not, yet both in pain, and also features JB's accidental destruction of New Hampshire
Chapters from "Star Trek: Beyond the Warp Barrier" (1992-1996)
Star Trek: Corel by Robert Gillis (1996)
After decades of adventures and saving the universe on a regular basis, time-traveling Starfleet captains Robert Gillis and David McEntire are in command of the constitution class starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, its decommissioning temporarily delayed for warp drive tests, on one last joyride before retiring their Starfleet commissions and returning for good to their homes and wives in the 20th century… In this, the final two chapters, our heroes have been led to the planet Corel, a diplomatic hotspot, a planet petitioning for Federation membership but on the brink of civil war, where their final adventure is about to begin.
Excerpts from one of my earliest stories, "The Abucs Scenario." (1986)
The Valinor and Ted Koppel
So if John Matthews really was, as he claimed, a member of an advanced extraterrestrial race bent on conquering Earth, what would he do? Well, go on "Nightline," of course!
The robot and the lighsabre
Tripp meets JB's robot. Dave gets a working Star Wars toy.
Dr. Robert Gillis has a meeting with an old, omnipotent friend. Any resemblance to the same scene in "2010: Odyssey Two" is entirely deliberate.
Tripp and JB
More excerpts from Abucs Scenario, as Tripp tries to unravel the mystery that is JB--and unravels in the process.
Star Trek: War Hammer or On fanfiction.net
It is the late 23rd century. Aboard the Starfleet Marine flagship War Hammer, Captain John Black must balance his Starfleet training with a need for revenge against a malevolent race that has killed eight of his men, and millions of others.
Grambo!
With absolutely no exaggeration, this is the most preposterous, outrageous, implausible, bizarre thing I’d ever written, as 97 year old Granny decides to take on the drug dealers in her neighborhood once and for all.
A friend of mine is having landlord troubles and is concerned about opening a letter from her landlord. We’re both huge fans of the BBC series "Father Ted" so I wrote this to cheer her up.
Humor: Robert Gillis records his new audio book, "A history of the town of Foxboro"
Or, how I kept Lauren entertained during the 2004 Haunted House. A history of Foxboro that was CLEARLY not very researched, and the "celebrity's" woes as he reads his new book.
Humor: Haunted Titanic: A ship of screams (written with Lauren Bitar)
As obsessive fans of the movie "Titanic," Lauren and I decided we would commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking by co-chairing the 2012 haunted house as "Haunted Titanic." We both love the Dudley Moore movie "Arthur," and "Titanic," and the "X-Files," so you’ll find lots of in-jokes and "had to be theres" in this story. LOTS and LOTS of them. If you want to know what Lauren and I are really like together… This is what Lauren and I are like together.
The Nigerian 419 Email fraud -- one of the oldest and most common scams on the internet -- it's cost people millions.
Beware Super Bowl ticket fraud - on ebay, Craigs list and other online sites. Learn how to spot the scammers and fakes.
Understanding Phishing and spotting fake emails (PayPal, eBay, IRS, your bank) -- and how to report them to a place that will shut them down
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