Harry Stephen Keeler
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A million stories are trembling to be crystallized on the black ribbon of the typewriter. Located in Chicago, London of the West. Portrait by Al Hirschfeld. Join the Keeler Society: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/keeler/join.html
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Me, I’m jest a dumbdora, I guess, makin’ her livin’ anklin’ over a waxed floor with all th’ apple-knockers, brush-apes, brooksies an’ sponge-cakes in th’ whole world, but I ain’t a clothesline. A snitcher. See? Never was--an’ ain’t beginnin’ now.
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My podcast ("The History of Comics in 500 Issues", 500issues.com) is free. Just one thin dollar a month will give you access to the bonus episodes I do.
500issues.com - Berlin
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Happy Birthday Chesty Morgan!! I love you!!
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[Liliana Wilczkowska, also known as Chesty Morgan, holocaust survivor and Doris Wishman muse, celebrates her 88th birthday today. She was to have portrayed Divine's mother in the doomed FLAMINGOS FOREVER.]
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I don't know how many of you are Charles Portis fans--he wrote TRUE GRIT (along with several other novels)--but if you are, this article about THE DOG OF THE SOUTH will warm your heart--a newbie gets it!--and if you aren't, the article will make you want to start.

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Charles Portis Can Make You Love A Loser | Defector
I am more likely to laugh at a movie than a book. I’m sure this is true of many people, and I’m sure there are a host of social-emotional reasons for this disparity, but I can think of at least one cr...
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flashfilms.bsky.social
When I interviewed screenwriter Brannon Braga about "Star Trek: First Contact," he told me Virginia's performance as the disembodied head of 'Jan in the Pan' was inspiration for the Borg Queen's head being lowered onto her body. 🖖🤓
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[Liliana Wilczkowska, also known as Chesty Morgan, holocaust survivor and Doris Wishman muse, celebrates her 88th birthday today. She was to have portrayed Divine's mother in the doomed FLAMINGOS FOREVER.]
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[Virginia Leith, born 100 years ago today, portrayed "The Girl" in Kubrick's first feature, FEAR AND DESIRE (1953), and achieved cinematic immortality as Jan "In The Pan" Compton in THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962).]
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Rest in peace, Drew Struzan. His movie posters are much more than marketing. They're some of the finest pop art you'll ever see. Look at this masterpiece:
The Name of the Rose movie poster
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["Roundhay Garden Scene" was filmed OTD in 1888. 10 days later, star Sarah Whitley, 72, died, the first movie actor to do so. In 1890 filmmaker Louis le Prince got on a train in France and was never seen again. His son, also in the film, was shot, mysteriously, on Fire Island.]
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ALT: a black and white photo of a group of people walking in front of a building
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👏 PLOT👏TWIST!👏 IF 👏THESE👏UNSERIOUS 👏WOCKAFLOCKAS 👏SOUND 👏LIKE👏 SERIOUS👏WOCKAFLOCKAS👏TO 👏YOU👏THEN👏YOU👏 YOURSELF👏HAVE 👏BECOME👏AN👏UNSERIOUS 👏WOCKAFLOCKA!👏
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paultobin.bsky.social
Me checking the news these days.
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[The leaves of my nice, gay book are all torn. Hope you are well.]
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moviessilently.bsky.social
I cannot emphasize enough how much the 1915 Italian adventure film THE JOCKEY OF DEATH lives up to its advertising campaign
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The best kaiju is Cutey from THE PET. Glad to settle this debate!
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Good morning to everyone who was injured in a lust race and awoke in a sin pit.
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kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
I have now read Kathryn Schulz's even-handed piece on Shadow Ticket, and I am not deterred. In fact, I'm encouraged, not least by the fact that Clara Rockmore is in it.
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"’Twould be one grand finale to this comedy of errors if she were found somewhere today--and had a couple of skulls herself in her gripsack!” But Allstyn realized that he too now was soaring on the wings of hypermelodramatic invention. And reined himself sharply in.
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“The girl with--with the lavender gripsack?” he asked.
“Forget the girl with the lavender gripsack!” I said.
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[Australian artist and occultist Rosaleen Norton, expelled from a Church of England girls’ school for drawing demons and vampires, later known as the Witch of Kings Cross, a worshipper of Pan, and a student of Aleister Crowley and the qlippoth, was BOTD in 1917.]
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Give a writer the bare taste of success--by magazine acceptance--and after that he’s utterly ruined! For he wants to do nothing else after that--but write more--and get more acceptances. Till, of course, Old Man Death accepts him--in the magazine called "The Grave."