The Holy Modal Rounders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTWL6Tx7mQ&index=2&list=PLv39LLwuf1WE2HZLbAOKGUVUJOEYc-QnW
Small House of Everything
Friday, October 2, 2015
THE THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF OCTOBER: TWO FACE
From Frank Belknap Long, close friend of H. P. Lovecraft and a noted writer in his own right, comes our second tale for Halloween Month.
http://unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1950mar-00019
http://unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1950mar-00019
FORGOTTEN STORY: THE INTRUDERS BY EVAN HUNTER
"The Intruders" by Evan Hunter, from Best Seller Mystery Magazine, March 1959
"Ed McBain" was the best-known pseudonym for Evan Hunter. I didn't have a copyof a McBain/Hunter book handy for this week's Forgotten Books tribute to that great writer, so I decided to go with one of his crime short stories.
Ovver the years I have read just about every book that Hunter published (the exeptions being two later novels -- 2002's The Moment She Was Gone by Hunter and Alice in Jeopardy by "McBain" -- and the questionable soft-core novels written as "Dean Hudson"). If I had to recommend a book by him, I'd probably go with the 87th Precinct novel Ghost, if only for the most horrifying two pages in a police procedural. Or maybe his early collection of crime and juvvenile delinquent stories, The Jungle Kids. Or perhaps one of his big mainstream novels like Second Ending, Last Summer, or Streets of Gold. Or I could go with any of his Matthew Hope novels, or his western novel The Chisholms, or one of his Winson "Adventures in Science Fiction" juveniles, or his thriller Scimitar, or...or you could just pipck up anything he has written, under any name, from any point in his long career -- I'm pretty sure you will be entertained and impressed.
In this meantime, sample this small tale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7ELVw9DA0
"Ed McBain" was the best-known pseudonym for Evan Hunter. I didn't have a copyof a McBain/Hunter book handy for this week's Forgotten Books tribute to that great writer, so I decided to go with one of his crime short stories.
Ovver the years I have read just about every book that Hunter published (the exeptions being two later novels -- 2002's The Moment She Was Gone by Hunter and Alice in Jeopardy by "McBain" -- and the questionable soft-core novels written as "Dean Hudson"). If I had to recommend a book by him, I'd probably go with the 87th Precinct novel Ghost, if only for the most horrifying two pages in a police procedural. Or maybe his early collection of crime and juvvenile delinquent stories, The Jungle Kids. Or perhaps one of his big mainstream novels like Second Ending, Last Summer, or Streets of Gold. Or I could go with any of his Matthew Hope novels, or his western novel The Chisholms, or one of his Winson "Adventures in Science Fiction" juveniles, or his thriller Scimitar, or...or you could just pipck up anything he has written, under any name, from any point in his long career -- I'm pretty sure you will be entertained and impressed.
In this meantime, sample this small tale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri7ELVw9DA0
Thursday, October 1, 2015
NOT HOMELESS YET -- STILL ANOTHER UPDATE
At noon yesterday we were supposed to be officially homeless as that was when we were supposed to pass papers on our old house in Southern Maryland. Ha! Fat chance!
The title company has had the paperwork done for the past two weeks, and we have just been waiting for HUD approval for the buyer's loan. But HUD is part of the government and September 30 was the close of their fiscal year, so of course they did not have everything ready in time. September 30 was also the day ous contract with the buyer ended.
No big deal. We were sent an extension to the contract to sign electronically, extending the contract for another seven days.
Then Anal Gail, our Maryland real estate agent called. HUD decided they needed a signed receipt for the new septic system we had had installed. Our copy is probably in a box somewhere, but the septic company came through and sent a copy of their receipt. No big deal. Problem solved. Papers are now due to be passed tomorrow at noon.
Then this morning HUD found another document we needed to sign. This one we had to print and send a scanned e-mail back. The printer, which worked pretty good this morning, decided not to work when we needed it. So it was off to the library to use their printer. We got to the library about 12:45. Turns out the libraries in this county close at 1:00 on Thursdays and their computers had been shut off. Oh well, our trusty friends at Office Depot were not closed. It took a few minutes to convince Outlook/Hotmail that we were who we said we were and have the document printed so we could sign it, scan it, and sent it back. So we were golden.
Then we came back to Christina's and found another e-mail from the title company. HUD (bless 'em) found two more documents we have to print and sign and return. No probs, right? Because Office Depot is our friend. But...the first document mispelled my name where I am supposed to sign and HUD is very tricky about that. And the second document contained three pages and we are to sign page 1 (tacitly acknowledging that we have also received pages two and three -- makes no sense to me but because it is HUD it makes sense to me). Did I mention that there is no place on page one (nor pagers two or three) for us to sign? Nada. Zip. The big goose egg. So we have to get that cleared up and it's now 5:37 pm in Maryland and there's no one around to answer our questions.
So we hope to get everything resolved so we can pass papers tomorrow. In the meantime, we are not homeless, dammit.
On the real estate front here, Real Estate Amy tells us that the sellers are considering the bid we presented on Monday and we should hear from them tomorrow -- maybe. We are expecting some dickering back and forth and we're hoping things will work out, but there are no guarantees.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna's grandmother used to say, "It's always somethin'." Life goes on and we go on with it. It's the first of October today and Halloween is just around the corner, so as far as I'm concerned, everything is fine.
The title company has had the paperwork done for the past two weeks, and we have just been waiting for HUD approval for the buyer's loan. But HUD is part of the government and September 30 was the close of their fiscal year, so of course they did not have everything ready in time. September 30 was also the day ous contract with the buyer ended.
No big deal. We were sent an extension to the contract to sign electronically, extending the contract for another seven days.
Then Anal Gail, our Maryland real estate agent called. HUD decided they needed a signed receipt for the new septic system we had had installed. Our copy is probably in a box somewhere, but the septic company came through and sent a copy of their receipt. No big deal. Problem solved. Papers are now due to be passed tomorrow at noon.
Then this morning HUD found another document we needed to sign. This one we had to print and send a scanned e-mail back. The printer, which worked pretty good this morning, decided not to work when we needed it. So it was off to the library to use their printer. We got to the library about 12:45. Turns out the libraries in this county close at 1:00 on Thursdays and their computers had been shut off. Oh well, our trusty friends at Office Depot were not closed. It took a few minutes to convince Outlook/Hotmail that we were who we said we were and have the document printed so we could sign it, scan it, and sent it back. So we were golden.
Then we came back to Christina's and found another e-mail from the title company. HUD (bless 'em) found two more documents we have to print and sign and return. No probs, right? Because Office Depot is our friend. But...the first document mispelled my name where I am supposed to sign and HUD is very tricky about that. And the second document contained three pages and we are to sign page 1 (tacitly acknowledging that we have also received pages two and three -- makes no sense to me but because it is HUD it makes sense to me). Did I mention that there is no place on page one (nor pagers two or three) for us to sign? Nada. Zip. The big goose egg. So we have to get that cleared up and it's now 5:37 pm in Maryland and there's no one around to answer our questions.
So we hope to get everything resolved so we can pass papers tomorrow. In the meantime, we are not homeless, dammit.
On the real estate front here, Real Estate Amy tells us that the sellers are considering the bid we presented on Monday and we should hear from them tomorrow -- maybe. We are expecting some dickering back and forth and we're hoping things will work out, but there are no guarantees.
As Roseanne Roseannadanna's grandmother used to say, "It's always somethin'." Life goes on and we go on with it. It's the first of October today and Halloween is just around the corner, so as far as I'm concerned, everything is fine.
THE THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF OCTOBER: EYES IN THE DARK
October is my favorite month and Halloween is my favorite holiday. This month I'll be posting a story a day -- from 31 different authors -- from the pages of Weird Tales magazine. Let's see if there will a story from your favorite horror/fantasy author.
We'll start off Halloween Month with a Jules de Grandin story by Seabury Quinn.
http://unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1946nov-00054
We'll start off Halloween Month with a Jules de Grandin story by Seabury Quinn.
http://unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales-1946nov-00054
HOPALONG CASSIDY: THE EMPTY SADDLE
From September 7, 1948, here's William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy.
After a successful run in the movies, Hopalong Cassidy began a syndicated radio run in 1948, continuing to 1950 when it was picked up by the Mutual Radio Network. It late September of that year the series moved to CBS radio, where it remained until its end on December 27, 1952. All of the shows appearing on the Mutual Network were rebroadcasts of the syndicated series, as were the first thirteen episodes on CBS. While the rebroadcasts were airing, new episodes were being recorded; 1951 started off with the new episodes, the first of which had been recorded nearly a year earlier.
Hopalong Cassidy was created by writer Clarence E. Mulford in 1904; the character went on to appear in many short storries and 28 novels. Mulford's Hoppy was a rough, rather testy, quick-on-the-draw character, as opposed to the Hopalong of William Boyd's movies, who was a clean-cut gentleman with a sense of justice. Sixty-six Cassidy movies were filmed from 1935 through 1948. Boyd purchased the rights to the films, the books, and the character. In 1949, Boyd began repackaging the films for broadcast as the first network western television show. Around the same time, Boyd began production on a series of new half-hour Hopalong Cassidy programs, which weighed in at number 7 in the Neilson ratings for 1949. The Hopalong Cassidy franchise, including many merchandising tie-ins, made Boyd a wealthy man who took his responsibilty to the nation's children seriously -- something somewhat surprising considering his very wild reputation as a young man.
On a personal note, I was enamored with Hoppy by the time I was five; something from which I never quite recovered. My fascination stemmed from the television show; I had never listened to the radio show -- something I'm able to correct today.
"The Empty Saddle" was rebroadcast on the Mutual Network on March 19, 1950. Veteran sidekick Andy Clyde provided the comic relief as California Carlson, Hoppy's grizzled sidekick in more than half of the Hopalong Cassidy movies.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmU2OXNzeaQ
After a successful run in the movies, Hopalong Cassidy began a syndicated radio run in 1948, continuing to 1950 when it was picked up by the Mutual Radio Network. It late September of that year the series moved to CBS radio, where it remained until its end on December 27, 1952. All of the shows appearing on the Mutual Network were rebroadcasts of the syndicated series, as were the first thirteen episodes on CBS. While the rebroadcasts were airing, new episodes were being recorded; 1951 started off with the new episodes, the first of which had been recorded nearly a year earlier.
Hopalong Cassidy was created by writer Clarence E. Mulford in 1904; the character went on to appear in many short storries and 28 novels. Mulford's Hoppy was a rough, rather testy, quick-on-the-draw character, as opposed to the Hopalong of William Boyd's movies, who was a clean-cut gentleman with a sense of justice. Sixty-six Cassidy movies were filmed from 1935 through 1948. Boyd purchased the rights to the films, the books, and the character. In 1949, Boyd began repackaging the films for broadcast as the first network western television show. Around the same time, Boyd began production on a series of new half-hour Hopalong Cassidy programs, which weighed in at number 7 in the Neilson ratings for 1949. The Hopalong Cassidy franchise, including many merchandising tie-ins, made Boyd a wealthy man who took his responsibilty to the nation's children seriously -- something somewhat surprising considering his very wild reputation as a young man.
On a personal note, I was enamored with Hoppy by the time I was five; something from which I never quite recovered. My fascination stemmed from the television show; I had never listened to the radio show -- something I'm able to correct today.
"The Empty Saddle" was rebroadcast on the Mutual Network on March 19, 1950. Veteran sidekick Andy Clyde provided the comic relief as California Carlson, Hoppy's grizzled sidekick in more than half of the Hopalong Cassidy movies.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmU2OXNzeaQ
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