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FFM: Will Eisner, Charles Burns, Steve Niles, Peter Kuper, Mary Fleener, Art...
The 1980s were an Interesting time for comics magazines, as both the standard newsstand comics industry and the "underground" alternative comics fields were definitely feeling their own very pronounced...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some more new acoustic, folk-rock and adjacent:
Neko Case: "This Tornado Loves You"Kathleen Edwards Band: "Empty Threat"Thievery Corporation: "Saudade"Be Good Tanyas: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain"Aimee Mann: "Satellite"Thao Nguyen (with Maria Bamford...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
LadyhawkeBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations, including a few "make-goods" for bad links last week. As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone...
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Horace Silver, 1928-2014
in 1989Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty : The Autobiography of Horace Silver (1986)Horace Silver: Jazz Times; DownbeatHorace Silver Quintet: "Song for My Father"...you've almost certainly heard a snatch...
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FFB Redux: key anthologies: Fritz Leiber and Stuart Schiff: THE WORLD FANTASY...
courtesy the Contento index:The World Fantasy Awards Volume Two ed. Stuart David Schiff & Fritz Leiber (Doubleday 0-385-15380-5, 1980, $10.95, 224pp, hc) Cover painting by Roger Dean.· Preface ·...
View ArticleRobert Bloch's "A Toy for Juliette", adapted as a high-school video drama by...
Because you know you need to see a Hispanic teenaged girl play Adolf Hitler. And the final murder segue into the Singing Nun.Robert Bloch gets to speak for himself:And even without script approval...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links (many delaying factors...
Ruby DeeBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations. As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone else's...and, as always, thanks to all our contributors and to...
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Emma the Cat, 2004?-2014
aka Emmy ChangReply to conversation [A]Adopted in 2009 from the streets around the community health clinic where Alice, my best friend and housemate, worked, Emmy/Emma (depending on whether we speak of...
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June'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....or, in Bill's first example, to remind you why the...
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Obligatory feline gallery (now visible in most browsers):
Niki (tan and white tuxedo female), Domino (large white and black tom), Emma (smaller white and black female)--Domino is economy-sized, Emma travel-sized. Ninja (young tabby female) about to begin a...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Reign of FireBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations. As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone else's...and, as always, thanks to all our contributors...
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at last, another FFB: SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS: CONTEMPORARY FANTASY AND...
In this ridiculously busy week, after a busy and extremely sad week, I've been considering doing posts on several books (and notable magazine issues) but have been putting them aside for now, so that I...
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Saturday Music Club: some punk rock (one of the video images, below the...
The Ex: "Ay, Carmela" (contrast the Weavers'"Venga Jaleo" and Lila Downs's "El Quinto Regimiento")Jawbox: Peel Session 1994: "Static"; "Tongues"; "Chinese Fork Tie"; "Cooling Card"; "68"Jawbox: Austin,...
View ArticleTuesday's Overlooked Delayed to this evening...sorry to keep anyone in suspense.
Sadly, the way life can go. Thanks, folks.
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Thursday: more links
Sin Takes a HolidayBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations; terribly sorry for the various delays this week. As always, please let me know in comments when I've missed yours or someone...
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FFF(emme)F(atale)B: BEYOND THE NIGHT: Six Tales of Horror by Cornell Woolrich...
Of all the parents of modern horror fiction, the one most a creature of noir (in fact, the one essentially the primary progenitor of noir even as a label, much less as an approach) was Cornell...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Thursday: the links
Starting OverBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations; terribly sorry for the various delays this week (my computer in the shop, the press of work, various smaller distractions--I should...
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FFM: P.S. #1, April 1966: contributions from Avram Davidson, Alfred Bester,...
This is a magazine I've been looking for copies of (in a casual way) for about 35 years, maybe a little more. I've written about it a little previously in the blog (and received some interesting and...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
MarloweBelow, the links to this week's reviews and citations--a larger than usual number of (I suspect valuable) warnings among the recommendations...and a number of memories of James Garner. As...
View ArticleOvation cable channel's web series: TOUCHING THE ART - Episode 2 -...
Panelist Carol Cheh was a highschool-mate of mine. And, from 1999, another highschool-mate, Rebecca Ramos, leads off this episode with instructions for paper-marbling. (I'm pretty sure Becca and I were...
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