Next Saturday night, we’re sending Lois Lane… BACK TO THE FUTURE!
by Robert Gillis 8/2011 What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE (Click any image to enlarge) We’re arrived at Lois Lane #59…
Because you demanded it… Another slow news day column!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper and Foxboro Reporter, 8/2011 Slow news day. Random thoughts. In speaking about music, kids today do not know what a “B-Side”…
Windows PC Security 101: How to protect your computer
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 7/2011 As a computer geek since 1981 and a professional at it since 1988, I get asked a…
Katy Perry’s “Firework:” A message every teen needs to hear
By Robert Gillis Pubished in the Foxboro Reporter 6/2011 and the Boston City Paper, 4/2011 A detailed discussion of a music video is not typical fodder for my columns, but…
Foxboro Founders Day 2011!
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 6/2011 Founders Day is here again! The annual day-long celebration of our town’s birthday starts as you drive through Foxboro at 8:45,…
What if they gave an apocalypse and no one noticed?
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 5/2011 What if they gave an apocalypse and no one noticed? For months, we’d seen the billboards –…
More Silver-Age Lois Lane comic book madness!
by Robert Gillis 5/2011 What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE (Click any image to enlarge) More random madness, silliness and shenanigans…
Thoughts on the “Smallville” finale
by Robert Gillis On another excellent CW show, Supernatural, the prophet “Chuck” said this in a season finale (that was almost the series finale): “Endings are hard. Anyone can create…
Thoughts on visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City paper, 5/2011. While Easter has passed and elections have been in full swing here in Foxboro, we are…
More Lucy Lane and Lois Lane Silver-Age Comics Sillyness!
by Robert Gillis 3/2011 What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE (Click any image to enlarge) Continuing my rant proclaiming the evil…
Why are we so angry?
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 3/2011 Why are we so angry? One of the magazines I read featured a recent editorial on that…
Silver-Age Comics fun: Going to the chapel, and I’m gonna get married: Lois Lane #42!
by Robert Gillis 2/2011 What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE (Click any image to enlarge) While Silver Age comic book are…
A different look at, “There but for the grace of God go I”
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City paper, 12/2010 In my years working in Boston, I’ve seen many homeless people and people very down on their…
By popular demand, another slow news day
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 2/2011 In response to your literally thousands of cards and letters, here’s more slow news day, random thoughts.…
Slow News Day!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 1/2011 Slow news day. Random thoughts. Two words that are not in the dictionary but should be: Snowmageddon:…