Michael But Hardboiled for Noirvember
@selmerguy.bsky.social
Old movies, old guitars, old records, old books, old photos.
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Pepper was one of cinema's first feline stars. She appeared in dozens of films between 1913 and 1928
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Pepper was one of cinema's first feline stars. She appeared in dozens of films between 1913 and 1928
People just don’t write songs about jazz vampires like they used to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
People just don’t write songs about jazz vampires like they used to.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-sassy chorines tap dancing
-one last score then I can quit this game for good
-Edna May Oliver being salty
-sideshow, circus or carnival
-crime on a boat or a train
-sassy chorines tap dancing
-one last score then I can quit this game for good
-Edna May Oliver being salty
-sideshow, circus or carnival
-crime on a boat or a train
-the proscenium may be crumbling, but we're gonna put on this show, dammit
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
-lonely person keeps doing tragic, uncomfortable things that make them even lonelier
-life-affirming space travel (aka nice aliens)
-Cary Grant doesn't wanna have sex
-principled lawyer/cowboy/politician in a town of sickos
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-sassy chorines tap dancing
-one last score then I can quit this game for good
-Edna May Oliver being salty
-sideshow, circus or carnival
-crime on a boat or a train
-sassy chorines tap dancing
-one last score then I can quit this game for good
-Edna May Oliver being salty
-sideshow, circus or carnival
-crime on a boat or a train
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One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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Happy Halloween (Orthodox)
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Happy Halloween (Orthodox)
@jaxbra.bsky.social I’d watch both of these shows.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@jaxbra.bsky.social I’d watch both of these shows.
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
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I will need £1 for the socks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I will need £1 for the socks.
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A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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From the Comet Over Hollywood Archives:
During World War II, actor Wayne Morris enlisted and flew 52 missions and helped sink five enemy ships. Read more here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/05/27/t...
During World War II, actor Wayne Morris enlisted and flew 52 missions and helped sink five enemy ships. Read more here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/05/27/t...
The forgotten Hollywood war hero: Wayne Morris
He can be seen playing alongside Bette Davis as a boxer in “Kid Galahad” (1937) or a cadet running amok at the Virginia Military Institute in “Brother Rat.” Wayne Morris may not be a name you’re fa…
cometoverhollywood.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
From the Comet Over Hollywood Archives:
During World War II, actor Wayne Morris enlisted and flew 52 missions and helped sink five enemy ships. Read more here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/05/27/t...
During World War II, actor Wayne Morris enlisted and flew 52 missions and helped sink five enemy ships. Read more here:
cometoverhollywood.com/2013/05/27/t...
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Wow, had no idea this existed. A 1948 radio show about A Streetcar Named Desire winning the Drama Critics Circle Award featuring scenes performed by the original Broadway cast including Jessica Tandy as Blanche. Tantalizing and invaluable glimpse at how she played it.
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
Jessica Tandy & Marlon Brando-A Streetcar Named Desire (Radio Version)
YouTube video by Taylormayes
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Wow, had no idea this existed. A 1948 radio show about A Streetcar Named Desire winning the Drama Critics Circle Award featuring scenes performed by the original Broadway cast including Jessica Tandy as Blanche. Tantalizing and invaluable glimpse at how she played it.
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
youtu.be/wmpjP-ZKDvg?...
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Flyer for Brother Theodore performing his macabre one man show in NYC
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Flyer for Brother Theodore performing his macabre one man show in NYC
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
Theodore was BOTD in 1906
@theharvestmaid.bsky.social I just learned that Alastair Crowley considered using Harpo Marx as the inspiration for The Fool for his Thoth Tarot Cards but ultimately decided not to.
Alternate Versions Of The Fool And Aeon Cards From The Thoth Deck
MORE GOODNESS from Frater Orpheus' FB page: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law By her own admittance, Frieda knew little about the tarot, but she was a talented artist and eventually agre...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@theharvestmaid.bsky.social I just learned that Alastair Crowley considered using Harpo Marx as the inspiration for The Fool for his Thoth Tarot Cards but ultimately decided not to.
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Celebrating the birthday of the divine, and much-missed, Ann Reinking.
❤️
❤️
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Celebrating the birthday of the divine, and much-missed, Ann Reinking.
❤️
❤️
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I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
A rare chance to buy books direct from me
I’ve got a limited supply of paperback copies of both Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness ready to ship to anyone in the UK who wants to buy one. They’re £13 each including delivery in the U…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
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NOT NOW PREVIOUSLY BURIED 1700s OBVIOUSLY VERY CURSED AND HAUNTED STONE CRYPT UNCOVERED BY AN UNEXPECTED GRAVEYARD TOMB COLLAPSE NOT NOW
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NOT NOW PREVIOUSLY BURIED 1700s OBVIOUSLY VERY CURSED AND HAUNTED STONE CRYPT UNCOVERED BY AN UNEXPECTED GRAVEYARD TOMB COLLAPSE NOT NOW
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I wrote briefly (and freely, if you catch my drift) about a couple of production stills from The Wild Party (1929) I found on eBay, one of which hints at an interesting change in the film's production, which could be simple, or not at all. Link: vitaphonezone.substack.com/p/production...
Production Stills, Gone Wild
Now that you’ve been reeled in by my unduly scandalous title, a trap many moviegoers have found themselves in over the past century, I’ll keep on spinning my same broken record.
vitaphonezone.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I wrote briefly (and freely, if you catch my drift) about a couple of production stills from The Wild Party (1929) I found on eBay, one of which hints at an interesting change in the film's production, which could be simple, or not at all. Link: vitaphonezone.substack.com/p/production...
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Clara Bow takes the BFGoodrich Silvertown Safety League pledge to promote safe driving in Hollywood, 1931 (or, me at the DMV)
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Clara Bow takes the BFGoodrich Silvertown Safety League pledge to promote safe driving in Hollywood, 1931 (or, me at the DMV)
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Ceramic art by Sophie Woodrow
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ceramic art by Sophie Woodrow
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Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
Jimmy Fallon, James Corden croon Sinatra, Bennett standards for gobsmacked guests in NYC
A source said, "The Eric Newman Jazz Band was playing, and before long, Fallon and Corden were up onstage trading Sinatra and Tony Bennett tunes!"
pagesix.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Stunned onlookers were overheard asking “Did we die? Is this Hell?"
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Horror ppl should watch Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. The Gists were Black evangelists & amateur filmmakers who used their films in their sermons. This film is a catalogue of sins. Even w/ no budget, it has surprisingly haunting moments throughout.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Horror ppl should watch Hell-Bound Train (James & Eloyce Gist, 1930) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. The Gists were Black evangelists & amateur filmmakers who used their films in their sermons. This film is a catalogue of sins. Even w/ no budget, it has surprisingly haunting moments throughout.
@thebasementtan.bsky.social When I was kid we lived in Wales and just before the bonfire was lit, we’d throw in potatoes wrapped in tin foil. After the the fire died out, the potatoes were perfectly cooked. #potatosky
I grew up with Ladybird books and find such pleasure and comfort in the seasonal illustrations.
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@thebasementtan.bsky.social When I was kid we lived in Wales and just before the bonfire was lit, we’d throw in potatoes wrapped in tin foil. After the the fire died out, the potatoes were perfectly cooked. #potatosky
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I wrote about House filmmaker Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's nouvelle vague-inspired biker movie His Motorbike, Her Island, in which young people tend to be more jealous of (and possibly even attracted to) motorbikes than people. New Blu-ray on Cult Epics loaded with extras. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
Hope You Like Me: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s Biker Musical Melodrama <i>His Motorbike, Her Island</i>
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND / Kare no ōtobai, kanojo no shima (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1986, Japan, 90 minutes) Welcome to my island Hope you li...
siffblog2.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote about House filmmaker Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's nouvelle vague-inspired biker movie His Motorbike, Her Island, in which young people tend to be more jealous of (and possibly even attracted to) motorbikes than people. New Blu-ray on Cult Epics loaded with extras. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
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This looks interesting: “This comprehensive new collection of essays is set to deck your halls with insightful looks at all your festive fright favourites, from the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS series to SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT...”
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YULETIDE TERROR
Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.
spectacularoptical.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This looks interesting: “This comprehensive new collection of essays is set to deck your halls with insightful looks at all your festive fright favourites, from the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS series to SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT...”
spectacularoptical.com/product/yule...
spectacularoptical.com/product/yule...