Harry Stephen Keeler

None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.

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[RIP Betty Harford, 98, who appeared on The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. Betty was the voice of Gumba, mother of Gumby.]

[Bobby Rush was born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, 92 years ago today, to have a hit with “Chicken Heads” in 1971, win a Grammy for “Porcupine Meat” in 2017, and play harmonica on the SINNERS (2025) soundtrack. He’s now on tour!]

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Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.

I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

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Burt Meyer, Chicago toymaker behind classics like Mouse Trap, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, has died at 99

Burt Meyer, a Chicago toy designer behind classics like Lite-Brite, Mouse Trap, and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, died Oct. 30 at 99, leaving a joyful, generations-spanning legacy.

She was so good in Little Shop.

My sweet Romeena

[Daffy Duck Becomes Danny Kaye, becomes Eyeball. BOOK REVUE, 1946.]

YouTube video by UC Santa Barbara UCSB Library & Dust-to-Digital: Saving America's Historic Music Archive

[“The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.”]

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[Alex in the sink.]

[Paper dolls of Sweden’s beloved Pelle Svanslös.]

[Gracias.]

[Happy 92nd birthday to Jackie Joseph, who portrayed Melody on Josie and the Pussycats, Jackie on the Doris Day Show, and, OF COURSE, Audrey Fulquard in the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)!]

A photo of four zines laid out titled Where People Enjoy Eating, Untamed, Danse Macabre, and A Violent Life

“Erin's work lingers in a space where the familiar begins to feel strange. A calm surface rippling with something darker underneath. We invite you to scratch the surface and discover what lies beneath...”

All four of my zines are now available through Afterword Books:

[Cover, Noble Head Funnies #4, featuring Mr. Kitty Fluff, the world’s most noble cat.]

[Mr. Kitty Fluff cartoons. Only in “Noble Head Funnies.”]

Ignatz chucks a Subway sandwich

Ignatz Mice toss traditional sub

HBD to perhaps the greatest Austrian writer (oh all right, Ludwig, it's a tie, happy now?)

[The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one! --Robert Musil, b. November 6, 1880]

“Zugunruhe: the term for the innate restlessness that birds feel which eventually spurs on migration”

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Photo of a vintage science fiction book with an illustrated cover depicting a man wearing a beautiful powder blue leotard with a purple belt holding a spear and gesturing to a cheetah that prowls in front of him. Title reads: WHOSE CAT IS THIS? HE GAVE HER A BATH AND A FLEA COLLAR BUT SHE'S GONNA NEED A COUPLE SHOTS By Blanche Futt PART 5 IN THE STRAY WARDEN SAGA

English is such a bullshit patched together language that this title doesn't rhyme.

Every time I read Angela Carter, I feel so much better about how potentially repetitive my own story ideas can be, because every story she wrote is: beautiful woman gets captured by evil beast-monster-man who watches in erotic anguish while she drinks tea.

Myself? I am of no consequence. Alas, the wages of super-calculation seems always to be--trouble! Or, paraphrased, a bell cannot be successfully stolen--because somewhere it will clank.

For fat women are the loveliest flowers that God has placed in this drab garden of Earth. They are great luscious blooms, which unworthy man has the rare privilege of nurturing in his midst. They are delightful, and they are sweet, to their last dimple--one and all of them!

Portion of a comic page. Panel 1 (a damned soul falls to hell): But Susan was not afraid... not even when the trap door to Hell opened beneath her feet...for she felt she could even charm the devil! Panel 2 (a female Satan with pitchfork lounges amid the flames as Susan, backlit in silhouette, looks on in horror): ...until she learned what no human had ever suspected...the devil lis a woman! Susan: No! No! It can't be! The End

Crime Mysteries #9 (Sep 1953)

The Best of Godzilla Vol.1 'Then' (1954 - 1975) [FILMCD201] : Silva Screen Records : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Out of print since decades!The first of two volumes covering up great selections from all of the first 22 Godzilla films (1954 - 1995).Volume 1, also known as...

[For Godzilla day, soundtracks, 1954 to 1975. Take it away, Ifukube.]

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You prob’ly think you’re pulling a fast one to get a free earful about something that don’t concern you, but it just happens that H. Keeler is a guy--that is, with the fetlock he wears, he’s just short o’ being a horse!--anyway, he’s a bird with pants, which is prob’ly more than you’re wear--