tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post1311340470267722431..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: FFB: Once Around the Bloch -- Robert BlochAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-28120125013131945892017-03-18T11:08:38.275-05:002017-03-18T11:08:38.275-05:00Gotta love that "unauthorized" title, to...Gotta love that "unauthorized" title, too.Mathew Pausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157135006791553019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-86451033001624002502017-03-17T07:39:12.750-05:002017-03-17T07:39:12.750-05:00I first read Robert Bloch's work in a Pyramid ...I first read Robert Bloch's work in a Pyramid paperback collection of his work in the Sixties. Loved it! Then I went back to my favorite used bookstore and tracked down more of Bloch's work. Wonderful writer! I have a copy of ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH but haven't read it yet.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-61072624182378345652017-03-17T06:41:23.868-05:002017-03-17T06:41:23.868-05:00A great talent and a nice guy.A great talent and a nice guy.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-1948431241336884722017-03-17T06:00:57.240-05:002017-03-17T06:00:57.240-05:00Oh, and he knew Samuel Peeples from some time back...Oh, and he knew Samuel Peeples from some time back (I forget how they met...Ziff Davis?), and it was Peeples who recruited him to come out and work on LOCK UP, the tv series, before PSYCHO was released...not that PSYCHO actually hurt his marketability, mind you...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-68059108997314167362017-03-17T05:55:38.685-05:002017-03-17T05:55:38.685-05:00He was freelancing for a while primarily when youn...He was freelancing for a while primarily when young, but even as prolific as he was, the day gigs made a difference...particularly when he struck out on his own with a partner on their ad/consultancy business.<br /><br />Feast your eyes on his IMDb listing, Bill, and consider how many unmade scripts and unscripted treatments he was paid for (one hopes, not too many he wasn't paid for).<br /><br />The saddest thing about the book is that he hoped to do another volume that would've focused more on his prose literary career, but alas that didn't happen. <br /><br />A Bloch without puns is a day without planetary rotation, to be sure...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com