The Spinney Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBhuLcxSng
Small House of Everything
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
BAD JOKE WEDNESDAY
Why does a moon rock taste better than one from Earth?
Because it's a little meteor.
Because it's a little meteor.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: APPOINTMENT AT ELEVEN
This Friday Patti Abbott's cheerful group of Forgotten Books minions will be celebrating "Ed McBain Week" at pattinase.com. Since I am not sure I will have something by "Ed McBain" (or Evan Hunter, S. A. Lombino, "Richard Marsten," "Curt Cannon," "Hunt Collins," "Dean Hudson," "Ezra Hannon," "John Abbott," "D. A. Addams." or even "Ted Taine") for Friday, I thought I would at least post something here for my Tuesday Overlooked Television contribution.
Evan Hunter's relationship with Alfred Hitchcock has been documented in his short memoir Me & Hitch (1998). He famously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's The Birds, but his dealings with Hitchcock go back a few years earlier when two of his stories were adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Television show. Then in 1959, he scripted this episode based on a story by Robert Turner.
"Appointment at Eleven" was directed by Robert Stevens, who helmed 44 episodes of Alfred Hithcock Presents and another five episodes the later Alfred Hitchcock Hour and was the only director of either show to win an Emmy. "Appointment at Eleven" stars Clint Kimbrough, who had a minor television acting career in the late Fifties and early Sixties; his best-known film was probably 1970's Bloody Mama in which he played Arthur Barker. Also featured in "Appointment at Eleven were Norma Crane (who played Miss Dean in Mr. Peepers), Clu Culager (The Virginian, The Tall Man, and a bazillion other television shows), and Sean McClory (The Californians, Bring 'Em Back Alive, and many others)
Arthur Baker is man with an appointment at eleven, or so he tells almost everyone he meets.
Enjoy.
(And don't forget to catch Ed McBain week at pattinase.com.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7ELVw9DA0
Evan Hunter's relationship with Alfred Hitchcock has been documented in his short memoir Me & Hitch (1998). He famously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's The Birds, but his dealings with Hitchcock go back a few years earlier when two of his stories were adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Television show. Then in 1959, he scripted this episode based on a story by Robert Turner.
"Appointment at Eleven" was directed by Robert Stevens, who helmed 44 episodes of Alfred Hithcock Presents and another five episodes the later Alfred Hitchcock Hour and was the only director of either show to win an Emmy. "Appointment at Eleven" stars Clint Kimbrough, who had a minor television acting career in the late Fifties and early Sixties; his best-known film was probably 1970's Bloody Mama in which he played Arthur Barker. Also featured in "Appointment at Eleven were Norma Crane (who played Miss Dean in Mr. Peepers), Clu Culager (The Virginian, The Tall Man, and a bazillion other television shows), and Sean McClory (The Californians, Bring 'Em Back Alive, and many others)
Arthur Baker is man with an appointment at eleven, or so he tells almost everyone he meets.
Enjoy.
(And don't forget to catch Ed McBain week at pattinase.com.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7ELVw9DA0
Monday, September 28, 2015
UILLEANN PIOBAIRI
How about some traditional Irish pipe music?
https://archive.org/details/UilleannPiobairi
https://archive.org/details/UilleannPiobairi
INCOMING
Another quiet week, with only a couple of lesser works purchased.
- Gene Deweese, Something Answered. Horror novel from 1983. A writer's bestselling horror novel is being made into a film. He returns to his hometown to throw a big party to celebrate, making sure that he invites all the people who shunned him and hurt him when he was younger. His pleas and prays for revenge on those who have wronged him, and something answers. DeWeese (1934-2012) was a writer who specialized in science fiction, media tie-in novels, and (often writing as "Jean DeWeese") gothics. Yes, the cover on this one has a dark house with one lighted window; young lady in a flowing gown and/or negligee fleeing the house, though. Note at the cover and title page give the author's name as "Deweese," while the copyright notice correctly gives it as "DeWeese."
- "Wallace Moore" (Gerard F. Conway), Balzan of the Cat People #2: The Caves of Madness. Science fantasy novel from 1975. There were only three novels in this unsuccesful series about "the Tarzan of outer space!"-- all written by Conway This was one of a zillion series created and packaged by Lyle Kenyon Engel, whose most famous packaging was the best-selling Bicentennial series by John Jakes. This series was nowhere -- and I mean nowhere -- as successful. One internet reviewer evidently called it "cretinous swill meant for slackjawed teenagers." [Ouch!] Conway is a well known comic book writer (he created Marvel's The Punisher and wrote Gwen Stacey's death for Spiderman) and script writer and producer (Father Dowling Mysteries, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Matlock, Perry Mason, etc.) The Balzan novels were obviously early works that should best be forgotten. Sadly for Conway (and for myself), I did not forget.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
1601
This is a recording of a story by Mark Twain, who said, "If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I have overlooked it." It's about Queen Elizabeth I and flatulance, among other things. Because of its content, this is not one of Twain's better known stories. Be warned: This is not a flowery Elizabethan romance.
Enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/1601_0903_librivox
Enjoy.
https://archive.org/details/1601_0903_librivox
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