Harry Stephen Keeler
@harryskeeler.bsky.social
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
Murder may be condoned, but discourtesy never.
[Robert WInsor McCay attempts to revive his father's creations for cruddy comic books in the late 30s and 40s. Bob can reproduce his father's style a little, but is unable to make any sense. Little Nemo degenerates into a "two-fisted American boy," in a cape, who punches out guys from outer space.]
[Winsor McCay's art, repurposed. Evidently the family did not retain the rights to the Rarebit Fiend, who has become the Mince Pie Fiend. From Superworld, 1940, Hugo Gernsback's shoddy attempt to branch out into science fiction comics.]
[Thor, God of Thunder, first became a superhero in Weird Comics, back in 1940. Apparently his superpower is that he can swivel his torso 360 degrees. While shooting red lightning from his hand, of course. Why even bother translating this guy into Portuguese?]
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
[Happy 97th birthday to Margarita Melville, Mexican-American anti-war activist and university professor, a member of Catonsville Nine, charged with using homemade napalm to burn draft records in Maryland in 1967.]
[Happy 93rd birthday to Debra Paget, the snake dancer in Fritz Lang's THE INDIAN TOMB (1959)! Debra was also in CRY OF THE CITY (1948), BROKEN ARROW (1950), LOVE ME TENDER (1956), and THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963), and was briefly married to Budd Boetticher.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEI...
Debra Paget - The Indian Tomb - Snake Dance
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[Attacked by an ourang-outang and driven mad. From the Illustrated Police News.]
[Happy World Orangutan Day! Support your local orangutan!] www.theorangutanproject.org
Home Page - The Orangutan Project
Habitat loss, poaching, and human-orangutan conflict are pushing these vulnerable beings to Extinction
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[Hal Roach's streamliner THAT NAZTY NUISANCE gave audiences exactly what they wanted in 1943: Hitler and Mussolini, in their BVDs, being beaten by an orangutan with a large stick. Happy World Orangutan Day!]
[For Black Cat Appreciation Day. Guy Boothby's fiendish Dr. Nikola, with his cat.]
Just watching the Ed Sullivan ape alone cracks me up, bless the old school 4th & Colorado 2nd floor Alamo Drafthouse, when the preshows included things like this and Clutch Cargo interspersed with various Japanese game shows.
Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution
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[For Black Cat Appreciation Day. Contralto and activist Marian Anderson's concept album about her little black cat, Snoopy.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqQ...
[When we could have spent all that money on four films about Lancelot Link, Mata Hairi, Bananas Marmoset, and Sweetwater Gibbons.]
Andrew Beasley@andrewbeasleyfootball.com · 4d agoI always thought the Beatles biopics were a bad idea. This image only seems to confirm that.
Hong did give vent to a cackling laugh that did hold merriment at the thought of discomfiture to his enemies, the Moon Men, plus a suggestion of great triumphal poo-poo-ism against the man who sat in front of him.
[Winsor McCay, 1929, drawing every single guy in the audience.]
[This looks like Froggy the Gremlin is dropping The Felon and his Gold Plated Bicycle down a manhole, and pelting him with rotten fruit.]
He met Su at art school some months back, where he was pretending to study art but was really looking for bizarre women, and wanted her more than anything in the world.
[Happy 92nd birthday to Ketty Lester, born Revoyda Frierson in Hope, Arkansas, to hit #5 with "Love Letters" in 1962!] www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4WY...
Love Letters
YouTube video by Ketty Lester - Topic
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[Happy birthday to singer and actress Ketty Lester, BOTD in 1934 to discuss cutting up torsos in anatomy class on You Bet Your Life!] www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwqU...
Ketty Lester
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[Happy birthday to Ketty Lester, BOTD in 1934 to call Blacula the only imbecile on this street!] www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2p...
BLACULA (1972) Clip - William Marshall & Ketty Lester
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[Happy 92nd birthday to Donnie Dunagan, who portrayed the son of the son of Frankenstein in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) and Bambi in BAMBI (1942) before enlisting in the marines and serving 3 tours in Vietnam.]
[Happy 93rd birthday to Gary Clarke, who played a teenage werewolf in HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958)! As a writer, he invented “Hymie the Robot” for Get Smart.]
“Now a most logical suspect,” Milroy drove on, “would be--in a case like this--the laddy-buck who couldn’t marry the gal because she was due to trip down the wedding aisle with dog-flesh."