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FFB: ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S A HANGMAN'S DOZEN edited by Lisa Belknap (et al.?),...
Having discovered for myself the results of Robert Arthur's industry in "Hitchcock" anthologies in 1974-75, my father had picked up this odd bird, Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen, for me among the...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to the reviews and...
Bad GirlsThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...As always, thanks to all the...
View Articlesome jazz singers and Buffy Sainte-Marie: Saturday Music Club on Thursday
Chris Connor: "Lonely Woman" (courtesy Jim C.)Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "A Taste of Honey"Abbey Lincoln: "Lonely House"Blossom Dearie: "Lucky to Be Me"Freda Payne: "Feeling Good"Aretha Franklin:...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: the links to reviews
Filling in this week for Patti Abbott, who will return to hosting next week, and we find an array of famous names (Agatha Christie, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Millar, Leonard Michaels, Erle Stanley...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to the reviews,...
Get CarterThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...As always, thanks to all the...
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September'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...this week, even more jazz than usual (including the...
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FFB: PUNAHOU BLUES by Kirby Wright (Lemon Shark Press 2005)
Despite the fact that I'm about as close to the ideal audience for this novel as it could have, since I, like Wright, attended Punahou Academy in Honolulu in the 1970s (though I began sophomore year...
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Prestige Lively Arts, a mostly spoken-word sub-label of the jazz, blues and...
Prestige Records was first and foremost a jazz label, one of the many interesting small jazz labels of the 1950s, but one which also branched out over the course of that decade and the next, to include...
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Alternate World Recordings and Analog Records: Spoken-Word and Audio Drama...
Alternate World Recordings first issued an LP, by actor and professional reader Ugo Toppo, of Robert Howard's work as From the Hells Beneath the Hellsin 1975, which had sold out by the point in 1977...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new links to the reviews,...
Black RainbowThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...As always, thanks to all the...
View ArticleWhen a Jerry House meme hybridizes with a George Kelley tendency...
Jerry's "Bad Joke Wednesday" can mate with George's cheesecake imagery to encourage consideration of one of the best (on both relevant counts) of Esquire's "A Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman" video...
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FFS: "Malice in Wonderland" by Evan Hunter (IF: WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION...
The January 1954 issue of If (on newsstands in early December '53) features an impressive lineup of writers...each, save one, would go on to or had already established a sustained career in sf and...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to the reviews,...
Meshes of the AfternoonThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...for the first week of...
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HELP! magazine, February 1962: Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Will Eisner,...
Archive.org has the content up from several issues of Help!, the fourth and last of Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazines, and the one with the longest shadow after Mad, given the remarkable locus of...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the 2015 Bouchercon edition with some Hallowe'en...
Cover by Ed EmshwillerWith Patti Abbott and many of the other regular contributors decamped to North Carolina for the Bouchercon (the annual world convention, at least as held usually in the US, of...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday: the links to...
The selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...we have two citations of One Way Passage, for...
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Some television theme music: Saturday Music Club on Thursday
Cover of "Mr. Broadway"The Blind Boys of Alabama "Way Down in the Hole" (The Wire)The five versions used by The WireTim McCauley: Da Vinci's InquestClosing themeJ. G. Thirwell "No Vacancy" (The Venture...
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FFB: WORKERS WRITE! TALES FROM THE COURTROOM edited by David LaBounty (Blue...
Workers Write! has become officially a little magazine appearing annually, but started as a small press anthology in 2005, with Workers Write! Tales from the Cubicle, like all volumes/issues since...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews, interviews...
The L-Shaped RoomThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences... and for the Hallowe'en...
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FFB: ILLITERATURE by Carol Lay (Boom! Town 2012)
Carol Lay has been one of the more brilliant cartoonists who've been producing both "underground" comics work (in the likes of Weirdo, Wimmin's Comixand her own title, Good Girls) and syndicated...
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