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FFB: 7 Quick Reviews: Harlan Ellison, Gary Jennings, R. A. Lafferty, John D....
With still a whole lot of work to do, and recovering from the chest cold that won't go entirely away any too quickly, I haven't quite finished any of the books I'd want to review this week...but...
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What did Jorge Luis Borges and Mike Connors have in common with The Saint?
Great American Publications in 1960 published all the following magazines:This tv-tie-in magazine, publishing new fiction aside from Tightrope!stories, lasted three issues...nearly as long as the tv...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Sunday: some Hawaiian folk music and extentions
After last week's Hawaiian pop/rock, some of the more traditional/rooted music from the archipelago:Peter Moon: "Papalina Lahilahi"Gabby Pahinui and Peter Moon: "Waialae"The Makaha Sons of...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V; new links
My Blueberry NightsToday's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links below (and the distant sound of thunder at least twice heard), including a...
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Looking like a Dick (or at least captioning like one)
Kate Laity accuses the young Philip K. Dick, at least in this photo, of possibly resembling me. I'd suggest that here he has better hair and much better skin than I did at that age, but you could've...
View ArticlePBS "Online Film Festival"--one more day...
I was slow in catching up with this, a selection of short documentary and narrative films with a ballot component, running on PBS's website...such as this little fantasia, "Hoverboard":Watch 2013...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some ragtime recordings
Scott Joplin: "The Chrysanthemum" (a player-piano roll he apparently cut)James Scott: "Frog Legs Rag" (likewise, a piano roll)Scott Joplin (performed by Joshua Rifkin): "Magnetic Rag"William Bolcom...
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Renown Publications: MIKE SHAYNE, WEIRD TALES, THE MAN (and THE GIRL) FROM...
Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine (which quickly grew less formal and became Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine) was the first and last magazine of what turned out to be Leo Margulies's most sustained...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Monday: after Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
"Few recording artists can claim innovation let alone revolution. The 1950's vocal trio of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross fit into that small category of performers who effectively turned a genre upside...
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more links added: Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Wings of DesireBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links. As always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for...
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fantasy magazines, late March, 1965
The first set is comprised of what could've been found on a theoretical Very well-stocked newsstand (as some were) in late March, 1965...the English-language professional magazines specializing in...
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March's Underappreciated Music: the links
Patti Abbott: Next to Normal; Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris: "1917"; George Gershwin Alone; opening themesSean Coleman: Jellyfish: Spilt MilkBill Crider: Robin Luke;Songs of the DayLee Hartsfeld:...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: the links
A fiction-magazine-heavy set today, and for once not just because of me...if I've missed yours, or someone else's, "forgotten" book for today, please let me know in comments, below...and thanks, to all...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: let's dance...
Music to which I have danced...in public. This is saying something. The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble (an augmented Jazz Messengers): OscalypsoAngelique Kidjo: We WeThe Rolling Stones: Around &...
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current crime fiction magazines in English, dead tree division:
It looks like we might be down to six of them, currently, with the hardy but infrequent little Hardboiled perhaps cracked by editor/publisher Gary Lovisi's losses in the NYC-area flooding...with a few...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Film and/or Other A/V
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious CircleBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...a slightly higher than average number of deservedly...
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FFB: I'M DYING HERE by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes, and a query: Who is...
In celebration of five years of Friday's Forgotten Books, as hosted and originated by Patti Abbott, I look back, and with searching hope suggest some books that could and should be put together (and,...
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It's Robert Bloch's birthday, today...
1952 WorldCon: Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Evelyn Gold, Arthur C. Clarke. Gold's husband was H.L. Gold, writer and founding editor of Galaxy magazine; Ms. Gold was often the public face of the...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some Women with ukuleles
Taimane Gardner:Zee Avi:Natalie Ai Kamauu:Brittni Paiva:Kale'a:Garfunkel and Oates:Julia Nunes:Nellie McKay:
View Articlesome Dan Aykroyd films...
Six Terrible Dan Aykroyd Films:1941: everything that was wrong about The Blues Brothers and none of its virtues. Plus clumsy misogyny is hilarious, right? Well, no.Neighbors: you know you're in trouble...
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