Harry Stephen Keeler
@harryskeeler
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:
[Here's Lee Van Cleef in Space, in a surviving 1952 episode of Space Patrol, "Threat of the Thormanoids."] dn801203.us.archive.org/0/items/Spac...
[Nancy Ann Olson was nominated for best supporting actress for SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) and went on to appear in several Flubber movies. She returned to the screen in 2014 for DUMBBELLS, directed by her son, Christopher Livingston. Nancy celebrates her 98th birthday today.]
[If Robert E. Howard's Red Sonya was Circassian, she could have kept a Pallas Cat, right?]
[Albanian butcher feeding sheep livers to the cats of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul (1714)]
[Floyd Gottfredson's single most famous panel. "Good gosh! Opium!" Bonus: here's a reference to shooting up cocaine.]
[We visited Bread and Puppets at the International Book Fair.]
[July 9 is International Gothic Day! Happy Birthday to Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, and Mervyn Laurence Peake, not to mention Basil Wolverton and Thomas Ligotti.]
[You always wanted to know what it looks like when one Martian Popping Thing gets socked in the face by another Martian Popping Thing.]
[Panic Pete, also known as Jo-Bo, Obie, The Martian Popping Thing, and Bug-Out Bob, was patented in 1947 by Latvian immigrant John M. Auzin. By 1952 they had their own comic book! And they're bloodthirsty!]
[The poetry of Pat Fielder, author of THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1947), BOTD in 1929.]
[Pat Fielder was born Pat Penny on 4/16/1929. She is best remembered for writing THE VAMPIRE (1957), THE RETURN OF DRACULA (1958), THE FLAME BARRIER (1958), and, of course, THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957). Pat also wrote nursery rhymes.]
[Joy Harmon's movie posters decorate Aunt Joy's Cakes in Burbank. They open tomorrow morning at 8 if you want a cake.] auntjoyscakes.com/about.html
[RIP actress and baker Joy Harmon, 85, co-host of "Tell It To Groucho (1961), 30 foot tall Merrie in VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965), and, in COOL HAND LUKE (1967), Lucille, who provocatively washes a 1941 DeSoto.]
[Millie the Lovable Monster just wants to do the Twist, but The Man has banned dancing!]
[Yes, Morris Bishop was BOTD in 1893, but he has been here before.]
[I Am The Corporal Of My Soul, by Morris Bishop, BOTD in 1893]
[How To Treat Elves, by Morris Bishop, BOTD in 1893. Illustration by his wife, Alison Mason Kingsbury.]
[Happy International Banana Day! Have 20 songs about bananas, 1935-84. Yes, the Hoosier Hot Shots are in there.] archive.org/details/lph356
[Poet Morris Bishop, born April 15, 1893, sometimes claimed to be W. Bolingbroke Johnson, to have been Librarian of the American Dairy Goat Association, and to have authored a novel called The Jelly-Like Mass. Use that title, somebody!]