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
And thank the Lord for--whoa--Tilley!--don’t tell me--that’s a harvester machine factory--it is!--it is!--we’re coming in at last--to Cleveland. Good aft’noon, Cleveland, could you tell a pore clod f’m out’n th’ sticks--a clod whut drives a sarcus truck fer a livin’--whar’at is yo’re Probaty Court?
[BOTD a century ago, saxophone deity John Coltrane; kite designer and Etch-a-Sketch inventor André Cassagnes.]
[BOTD in 1838, Victorria Woodhull, feminist, stockbroker, free love advocate, publisher of the Communist Manifesto, spiritualist, and candidate for president of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket.] travsd.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/o...
Of Claflins and Clairvoyance: The Story of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin
Congratulations to Liza Lentini, whom, it was announced two days ago, has just been named editor-in-chief of Spin magazine. Back in 2008, I reviewed Lentini’s play Woodhull for some rag or an…
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Doctors they were--or represented! Doctors who were here to declare a fish dead!
[Happy 90th birthday to Asa Maynor, who made her film debut in Jerry Warren's MAN BEAST (1956) and went on to play the stewardess who tries to keep William Shatner under control in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963). She was married to Ed "Kookie" Byrnes for a few years.]
Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens
I haven't gone to any movies lately. I agree with you that The Invisible Man was excellent.
If you toss a virtuous loaf of bread into the troubled sea of life it comes back to you an angel cake, covered with pink frosting!
Dell Otto not to vorgessen to giff Hildegarde shes daily piece von liffer becoz dachshunder shes can get der eeneemia same like peoples.
“Strange!” muttered the circus proprietor. “Strange--that they’re willing to pay one thousand dollars--for a diorama--that cost me--only $6.50! Specially, when it’s so--so ghastly! Or--or so comic! For after all--which is it? Ghastly? Or comic? Yes, which? But the price is strange."
This is an amazing interview. He even talks about and demonstrates how he practices: lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-roll...
Sonny Rollins: A Long Interview on TV, and He Plays Too!
[Remember, please use the Index to find all articles on a given subject—such as my previous sixteen essays on Rollins, with more to come!]
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[Happy birthday to Jan Handzlik, who played Tommy in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Martians are Due on Maple Street," and Patrick in AUNTIE MAME (1958). But now he's a lawyer.]
[1889 cylinder recording: Robert Browning attempts to recite "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," forgets the words.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot...
Robert Browning Recites His Poem (1889 Edison Cylinder)
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Bushpies Mars, Editor of Sensational Crime Pictures Magazine, Milwaukee, the first issue of which however had not yet been published, and former Editor of Startling Crimes Magazine, same city, reached forward impatiently for the phone on his desk, which was shrilling at him.
[You can commission animal paintings from Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family. Look, they're surrounded by beans.] handsomefamily.com/order-a-port... archive.org/details/tvtu...
Ramble House is working on a rerelease of Fatal Accident, a Boscobell mystery from 1936 by the character's creator Cecil Wills. ramblehouse.com/fatalacciden...
[Singer and actress Helen Grayco was BOTD in 1924 to appear in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, fail to replace Deanna Durbin at Universal, marry Spike Jones, and, in 1976, emerge from semi-retirement to record this gay boyfriend anthem, "If That's How Nature Made Him."] www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5t5...
I posted a Shooby Taylor song earlier today and I didn’t even realize it was his birthday! bsky.app/profile/agpa...
A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃@agpasquella.bsky.social · 3w ago
I'm from somewhere else, definitely. If I was born, I definitely existed somewhere else before birth. (Sun Ra)
[In 1966 the Shadows of Knight recorded a song about potato chips, which was given away on a flexi disc with purchase of Fairmont Potato Chips in the Chicago area. Maybe HSK heard it.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bU...
Shadows Of Knight - Potato Chip
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[The brilliant and unique Shooby Taylor, Human Horn, was BOTD in 1929, to scat sing over other people's records Can you deny that this is the best song you ever heard?] www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqx...
Shooby Taylor - Folsom Prison Blues
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[Mary Lou Williams cited, as her greatest influence, Chicago's own Lovie Austin, pianist, singer, composer, and bandleader, BOTD in 1887. Here's Lovie and her Blues Serenaders with "Frog Tongue Stomp" backed with "Jackass Blues."] archive.org/details/78_f... archive.org/details/78_j...
