Silver Age Comics: Jimmy Olsen the Roughneck (and I still hate Lucy Lane)
by Robert Gillis 5/2010 What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE The amazing Adam at Comics make No Sense beat me to…
Foxboro Jaycees Easter Egg Hunt 2010
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2010 Despite a very busy schedule of coloring eggs and making Easter baskets, the Easter Bunny made time to visit the children…
Oh, boy! The nice banker in the email says I won $900,000! (fifth time this week)
by Robert Gillis This gem arrived in my spam folder today, and it was so perfectly, wonderfully, amazingly STUPID that I just had to share this one. Obviously, it’s fraud,…
Schoolyard bullying is no right of passage
By Robert Gillis Originally published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/2005, rewritten and updated for 4/2010 publication, and also published in the Boston City Paper, 4/2010. The sound is so loud…
Review: RENT at the Orpheum Foxboro
by Robert Gillis, published in the Boston City Paper 2/2010 During the “Halloween Song”
Facebook Fun: A Parody!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 2/2010 Slow news day. As good a time as any to pick on Facebook. If you don’t…
Eulogy for Bob Shea, our beloved friend
This is the eulogy that I wrote for Bob and read at his funeral. How do you summarize and eulogize such a magnificent human being and a life so very,…
Foxboro Jaycees 2009 Christmas Activities
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 12/2009 As a very proud member of the Foxboro Jaycees since 1993, I have seen first hand the fantastic work this group…
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and yes, Virginia, he knows that the world is ending in 2012
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 12/2009 “DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. “Some of my BFFs and Frenemys say there will be…
Magic 106.7 FM Boston / “Magic of Christmas” Set list
Magic 106.7 FM Boston / “Magic of Christmas” Set list Compiled (with love) by Robert Gillis (robertxgillis.com) There are still some “Artist Unknowns,” can you help me identify them? CLICK…
Almost completed: The WMJX 106.7 “Magic of Christmas” set listing (updated 2017 with three more unknowns found!)
by Robert Gillis FINAL UPDATE 1/22/2010: As completed as possible! THREE ADDITIONal SONGS FOUND THANKS TO THE “SHAZAM” APP IN 2017! STILL A FEW UNKNOWNS! Since the early 1990s, Boston…
Memories of Halloween
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, (revised) 10/2009, 10/1996 and the Boston City Paper 10/2006 There is something very special and magical about Halloween night. The sky seems…
Moon’s leaders declare war on Earth after attack by NASA
by Robert Gillis, who really has too much time on his hands. 10/2009 Lunar officials declared war on Earth early Friday morning after NASA launched a preemptive strike on Cabeus…
Flat tire leads to a little miracle
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 10/2009 So there I am, working at the home computer on a yet another late night software promotion,…
Fewer September 11 Memorials: Why?
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 9/2009 “The date, September 11, will forever evoke recollections of unimaginable tragedy, of lives callously lost and…