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FFB redux: BEST SF '71 ed. by Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss (Berkley 1972);...
Redux, due to attendance to a funeral and prepping the house for guests, at this link. Back with new next Friday.Please see Patti Abbott's list of old and mostly new FFB reviews here.Friday's...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Sunday: "and when you're dead, you're done..."
Dedicated to the memory of Shirley Mason Gauthier, and to the generosity of her family and mine.B. B. King: "Let the Good Times Roll"Johnny Gimble and Marc O'Connor (with Brent Mason among others):...
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This week's selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors and you...
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FFS/eB: Walter M. Miller, Jr.: "Command Performance" (GALAXY, November 1952);...
We consider three important stories from early in the relatively short literary career of Walter M. Miller, Jr., best remembered for the linked novelets published as a novel A Canticle for Leibowitz....
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Saturday Music Club: influence detective edition: on free jazz singer Patty...
Patty Waters. latter 1960sPatty Waters has had one of the more enigmatic careers among jazz vocalists, having been "discovered" singing in a supper club by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler and...
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overlooked US television networks: NTA Film Network (flourished 1956-61)
Old VHF Channel 13 in New York City has been the or an anchor station for no fewer than three national television networks in the US so far...in 1962, it was among the later startups for public...
View ArticleTuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
This week's selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors and you...
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May'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: Bessie SmithJayme Lynn Blaschke:...
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ffb: JOY IN OUR CAUSE: Short Stories by Carol Emshwiller (Harper & Row, 1974)
Carol Emshwiller has been a sophisticated prose artist from, at latest, not long after first publication in 1954, and this fact became impossible to miss by the appearance of her first stories to gain...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Sunday: examples of why my radio show SWEET FREEDOM...
Alan Hovanhess: Concerto for Orchestra No.1 "Arevakal" op. 88 (1951) performed by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony OrchestraLou Harrison: Six Sonatas for Cembalo (1943) performed by Linda...
View ArticleSCTV (1976-1984): not quite as overlooked fictional television networks
The Second City, the improvisational comedy troupe which has helped groom an impressive lot (to put it mildly) of comic actors and standups over the years (the list can begin with Anne Meara, Elaine...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Film and/or Other A/V: the links
WhirlpoolThis week's selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors...
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FFB: Horror and Fantasy Annuals, 1992 editions, edited by Karl Edward Wagner,...
Hachette, which had purchased the UK firm Constable and Robinson and essentially made it an imprint of their previous purchase Little, Brown, have further gone on to announce essentially the extinction...
View ArticleRonnie Gilbert, RIP
Ronnie Gilbert, the sole female singer among the folk-music superstars the Weavers for all but their earliest formative days, and a solo artist, activist, actor and psychologist over the years since...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Limehouse BluesThis week's selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the...
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FFB: THE EDUCATION OF HOPEY GLASS by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics 2008)
Jaime Hernandez is one of the three brothers (though eldest bother Mario only occasionally contributes) who are responsible for the comics magazine Love and Rockets; elder brother Gilbert tends to...
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Patricia Abbott: CONCRETE ANGEL and more: The blog tour continues
Patricia Abbott, or Patti as she usually goes by, is not a natural self-promoter, but that doesn't keep her from being a busy writer, with over 150 short stories published in various magazines and...
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Ornette Coleman, RIP
Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) Ornette Coleman: "Lonely Woman" (2006)The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Lonely Woman"John Lewis, Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall, Scot LaFaro: "Abstraction"Ornette...
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More third stream music: Saturday Music Club on Monday
The Jazz and Classical Music Society: Music for Brass/George Russell and Gunther Schuller: Modern Jazz Concert (aka Brandeis Jazz Festival)1. JOHN LEWIS - Three Little Feelings1.1 - Of Hope1.2 - From...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new (and corrected) links
This week's selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors and you...
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