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FFB: Helen Hoke, Seon Manley and GoGo Lewis, Michel Parry, Hugh Lamb and Some...
While I've written a fair amount about magazine editors, and such (and sometimes Also*) anthology editors as Robert Arthur* and Barry Malzberg*, Ellen Datlow* and Jerome Charyn, Betty M. Owen and...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: Some 3rd Stream Music: Mingus & Dolphy, Macero, Lee &...
Charles Mingus Quintet: "So Long, Eric"Teo Macero and His Orchestra: "Neally"Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "Vanguard"Chico Hamilton Quintet: "The Wind"Bob Prince and His Orchestra: "Ground Base"The Modern...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The Tenth VictimHere are this week's set of links to reviews and citations. Thanks, as always, folks...and please let me know if I've missed your or someone else's Overlooked post in comments. The...
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Pete SeegerThe Almanac Singers: "Which Side Are You On?"The Weavers: "Follow the Drinking Gourd"The version without Lee Hays's introduction, and with the Gordon Jenkins OrchestraThe Weavers: "Tzena,...
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January's Underappreciated Music: The Links (Pete Seeger memorial edition)
Arlo Guthrie and Pete SeegerThe monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of....and sparing a thought...
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FFB: Lee Hays: short stories for ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE and...
from the FictionMags Index:HAYS, LEE (1914-1981) (chron.) * Banquet and a Half, (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1954 * Monday’s Washday, (ss) Bestseller Mystery Magazine May 1959 * On the...
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Saturday Music Club: Some More 3rd Stream Music: Modern Jazz Quartet, Brubeck...
The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Lonely Woman"Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright): "Koto Song"The Brubeck Quartet on Jazz 625 (BBC-TV, 1964) (sadly, the bit of "In Your Own Sweet Way" at...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Prizzi's HonorHere are this week's set of links to reviews and citations. Thanks, as always, folks...and please let me know if I've missed your or someone else's Overlooked post in comments. The snow...
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FFB/S/M: Shirley Jackson's stories first published in fantasy-fiction magazines
Shirley Jackson, author of one of the most unpopular stories ever published in The New Yorker ("The Lottery", of course, which has utterly outlived most of its outraged critics and subscription...
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Newsstand Manfulness, for August 1964 (with a bit of womanity thrown in)
There was this new image of what young men, at least, might aspire to on US newsstands, on the date of my birth, but the following were more typical of the press aimed squarely at the male reader, with...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
O. Henry's Full HouseHere are this week's set of links to reviews and citations. Thanks, as always, folks...and please let me know if I've missed your or someone else's Overlooked post in comments. And...
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Valentine's Day Music Club: Third Stream Music for the day
Happy Valentine's Day!Charles Mingus Group: "What Is This Thing Called Love?"Thelonious Monk: "Crepuscle with Nellie"The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Minor Love"The Brubeck/Mulligan Quartet with Paul Desmond:...
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Revised and expanded: FFM: US newsstand eclectic fiction magazines, from the...
March-April 1963The two Fictions...which began about the same time..As the 1960s rolled into the 1970s, certain popular artforms refused to die, no matter how tenuous their audiences and customer-base...
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8/64: Some fiction magazines on the newsstands:
Constant readers could see this (almost Pinterestesque) post coming down the garden path...the various US and UK essentially-fiction magazines that would be on the newsstands in August, 1964...mostly...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
A Polaroid selfie: Perfect SenseBelow, the links to reviews and citations (and a couple of short reviews below those), currently including only the early links I've come across at this hour...more will...
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Overlooked Films and A/V guest post: Jeff Segal on his recent horror and...
Recently, I watched The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry, a swiftly-paced documentary on ham-fisted yet sincere monster-loving actor/writer/director Paul Naschy's life and career, with from The Man Who Saw...
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FFB: COLLEGE PARODIES edited by Will and Martin Lieberson (Ballantine 1961)...
Ballantine Books was always ready to be an innovative publisher, in the years that Betty and Ian Ballantine were in charge...sometimes the execution was less impressive than the inspiration, but they...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: all the hits, all the time
War: "All Day Music"The Undisputed Truth: "Smiling Faces Sometimes" (with Rose Royce)Stevie Wonder: "Fingertips"Miriam Makeba: "Click Song (Qongqothwane)"Monday Michiru: "Sands of Time"Operation Ivy:...
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new links and content: Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links...
Two Weeks in Another TownBelow, the links to reviews and citations, to what seems to me an unusually rich haul of a/v items this week (relatively few of the reviews below are warnings, at least not in...
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February's Underappreciated Music: the links
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of....Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Saturday Night...
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