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Delayed again: Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Terribly sorry, folks, but the family crises are not quite done (they won't be entirely "done" for some time) and the work and other delays that they have forced have to take first precedence at the...
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Redux for Highsmith Week: FFB 1952: Marijane Meaker (as Vin Packer): SPRING...
The first startling thing about these two novels, pioneering lesbian Bildungsromans, first published in the same year, under pseudonyms, by two writers who would go on to have a two-year affair seven...
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FFB: Redux (further memories of Frederik Pohl, Harry Harrison and other good...
Next week I hope to Rejoin the Blogging, if everyone hasn't forgotten about the memes I've been involved with...but Bill Crider's thoughtful review of HCdid spur me to do at least a bit more to remind...
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FFB: HORRORSTORY: VOLUME 3: edited by Gerald W. Page and Karl Edward Wagner...
It would be difficult for me not to be at least slightly nostalgic about the contents of this volume, or of the three volumes of the paperback annual it collects in small-press hardcover format (big,...
View ArticleTuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V delayed till this evening...sorry...
Things are still, if not crazy, then unhelpful. But I will be putting up links by tonight...thanks for your kindness and patience...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday: the links
Moscow-CassiopeiaThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the probability of a few more to be added over the course of the...
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November's Underappreciated Music: the links
Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Friday Night Music; Saturday Night MusicAnonymous: The Delta Rhythm BoysSean Coleman: The Great American Robber Barons; Joseph Bridge Bill Crider: Song of the DayIba...
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FFB: WILD RIDERS by Lee Hoffman (Signet, 1969)
Shirley "Lee" Hoffman first made a public name for herself as one of the wittier and more multiply-engaged (with other aspects of the world) science-fiction fans who published fanzines in the early...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Sunday: some bluegrass and related music (with a...
Alison Krauss & Union Station with Sierra Hull: "Cluck Old Hen"Doc Watson and Richard Watson: "Milk Cow Blues"Elizabeth Cotten: "Washington Blues" and "A Jig" (and just about to begin "Spanish...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Daddy Long LegsThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the probability of a few more to be added over the course of the...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Wednesday: some rarish tracks by the Zombies in the...
I suspect this is a sort of electronic bootleg album, though it includes some tracks (by the post-breakup Zombies, temporarily back from the dead, as the band Argent was forming?) that I haven't heard...
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FFB: Sheila Kohler: STORIES FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Ontario Review Press 2003);...
Well, we've lost Doris Lessing and Nelson Mandela within a brief time, and if that doesn't mark at least an easy sort end-of-year/reaching the end of an era summing for South Africa and the rest of the...
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Alexey Kljatov's snowflake photography
A whole lot of these in the Philadelphia area in the last 24, if not quite as many as fell in the middle and western US...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Shirley Eaton in Carry On NurseThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations (including at least two John Sturges films) at the links below...and the...
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FFB: Robert Arthur: EPITAPH FOR A VIRGIN (in MERCURY MYSTERY, September 1956)
The editorial work of Robert Arthur has been extraordinarily influential on my reading life, as the ghost editor of most of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents: anthologies and the "Hitchcock" anthologies...
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Rather sad.
The current issue of Fitness (sic) knows what you XX sorts should and often do aspire to...anorexia. But this model, with stick-thin arms, fat-and muscle-lite belly, and a face that (not so clearly in...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: another few links
Joanne Miya (of Arrest and Trial)This week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the probability of a few more to be added over...
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FFB: William Campbell Gault: uncollected short stories (online)
William Campbell Gault, the much-admired writer of mostly crime fiction by the end of his career, first made his mark as a sports-fiction specialist in the pulps of the 1940s and into the '50s...while...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: yearning/journeys
Dengue Fever: "Tiger Phone Card"Maggie and Terre Roche: "Telephone Bill"Paula Frazer: "This is a Song"Stephanie Brazil: "Maid on the Shore"Kami Thompson: "Little Boy Blue"Stan Rogers Band: "Barrett's...
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