tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post6721471301038567533..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: BITS AND PIECESJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-18221483651022022202020-04-13T16:53:26.478-07:002020-04-13T16:53:26.478-07:00I think you're right, Todd. Thanks.I think you're right, Todd. Thanks.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-15129767511401217262020-04-13T14:57:59.088-07:002020-04-13T14:57:59.088-07:00Willem KH Friso tested his mother's potatoes (...Willem KH Friso tested his mother's potatoes (December 13)<br /><br />Seems as if this recurs a lot in online date/data registers. I have a strong suspicion this was A Tell in some almanac at one point, a bit of nothing slipped in to prove plagiarism (a la nonsense definitions in dictionaries and erroneous bits in maps), and It's Fun, so it gets repeated in all its enigma. <br /><br />I could be wrong, easily, but to continue to paraphrase Randy Newman loosely, but I bet I'm not. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-5346411785361698502020-04-13T14:32:38.480-07:002020-04-13T14:32:38.480-07:00Handel's line, "King of kings, and Lord ...Handel's line, "King of kings, and Lord of lords," my Russian Orthodox convert friend noted some years back, harkens to the notion of Jehovah being the greatest god among gods, rather than the only. Some things can be more complex than we usually hear. Probably most things.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-82608592199403482112020-04-13T14:29:48.038-07:002020-04-13T14:29:48.038-07:00Seconded!
And in the latest issue, with the new ...Seconded! <br /><br />And in the latest issue, with the new logo, ALFRED HITCHOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE restores the 'S to the front cover, and both EQMM and AHMM retain that on their spines. I go by colophon. That came up as a question, when did the "Dell" magazines drop the possessive, on the Short Mystery discussion list, and I hadn't bothered to find out...thanks for taking that trouble!<br /><br />Also, you recall that after the folding of the Popular Publications version of BLACK MASK, Dannay without apparently actually buying the logo included it as Incorporating BLACK MASK on the EQMM tables of contents. Currently, the magazine has revived the long-term practice of having a Black Mask (legacy) story, almost always a new story, in the issues that Dannay had enjoyed presenting (in his case a fairly regular mix of reprints and new work).<br /><br />Anthony Boucher made the first English translation of Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of the Forking Paths", that I'm aware of, for an early issue of EQMM; sadly, when Boucher and J. F. McComas were editing its stablemate THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, beginning in 1949, Boucher never was moved to present a Borges fantasy...I gather he was not so much a fan of those, but he often thought rather erroneously that subtle fantasy wouldn't fly with the magazine's audience. The duo might at least have offered a vignette from THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY in their TRUE CRIME DETECTIVE, a short-lived but apparently literate (perhaps because literate) sibling magazine to the fiction titles. Alas, instead, Hans Stefan Santesson was the first to offer up one of those in English in his FANTASTIC UNIVERSE fantasy/sf magazine's last issue, in 1960...rather than in its stablemate THE SAINT MYSTERY MAGAZINE. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-44734209186025620222020-04-13T11:08:43.258-07:002020-04-13T11:08:43.258-07:00Take care, House family. Take care, House family. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com