I am sure that readers of this blog (all six of them) have no problem pronouncing these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0OG1XeKLI
And doesn't everyone want to say Llanfairpwllhgwyngyllgogerychwryndrobwlllantysliogogogoch? Now you can amaze your friends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno
Small House of Everything
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019
MUSIC FROM THE PAST: ROCKIN' PNEUMONIA AND THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES
From 1972, Johnny Rivers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJ78hYI6wk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJ78hYI6wk
TOM MIX COMICS #7 (OCTOBER 1941)
Hoo doggies! This is "The Official Publications of The Straight Shooters of America" (brought to you by Ralston-Purina). Luckily, you don't need to be a member to view the scan of this issue. And your parents can be assured that "NO blood-curdling horror, NO gangster heros, mar these comics. NO glorification of war, crime or slaughter -- nor are its pages crammed with cheap, badly drawn illustrations, to debase young reader's conceptions of form and proportion."
'There were only twelve (maybe thirteen, who knows?) issues of this comic (1940-1943), and the final three were renamed Tom Mix Commandos Comics. In addition to this title pushing Ralston-Purina products, the one-time "King of the Cowboys" was featured in 61 issues of Tom Mix Western (1948-1943); he also was a regular feature in eleven issues of The Comics from Dell (1937-8). I doubt Mix ever saw any of the comics titles with his name; he died, age 60, on October 12, 1940 after the car he was driving was caught in a flash flood and plummeted into a gully. A suitcase placed behind him and containing cash, traveler's checks, and jewels rocketed toward him and broke his neck.
Up front in this issue is "Tom Mix...and the Train That Vanished from the Face of the Earth." Tom is summoned to the War Department and tasked to guard the new Army mystery plane XP-80. to foil a ruthless saboteur named Dr. Goliath by smuggling the plane in an ordinary baggage car, under the watchful eyes of Tom Mix. tom and young Jane board the train, only to meet a disguised Dr. Goliath who manages to throw Tom off the train. The train (and Jane) then vanished! With the help of Pecos Williams and Washington Jefferson Lincoln Lee, Tom managed to track down the baddies and when Dr. Goliath escapes in the XP-80, Tom manages to lasso the plane in mid-flight and -- SPOILER ALERT! -- climbs up to save the day.
In "Tom Mix and the Cry for Help!" young Jane visits her friend Pops Johnson, an old prospector, only to have the two waylaid by a couple of gunmen seeking the gold that Pops was rumored to have hidden in his cabin. The bad guys steal the gold, bind Jane and Pops to cabin timbers, and set the cabin on fire so there will be no witnesses. Bwahahahaha! But the neer-do-wells did not count on Jane being member of the Straight Shooters Club. Using her toes, Jane manages to type out a morse code message to Tom on her Straight Shooter Telegraph Set. Tom (with his horse Tony), Pecos, and the Old Wrangler ride to the rescue. Coincidentally, immediately after this story there is an ad for Straight Shooter's Electric Telegraph Set (just 10 cents in coin and one blue seal from a Ralston hot cereal box -- what a bargain!).
To help bulk out the 34 pages of this issue, there are a whole lot of fillers, many of which plug Ralston, clean living, and/or the Straight Shooters Club.
Enjoy.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73289
'There were only twelve (maybe thirteen, who knows?) issues of this comic (1940-1943), and the final three were renamed Tom Mix Commandos Comics. In addition to this title pushing Ralston-Purina products, the one-time "King of the Cowboys" was featured in 61 issues of Tom Mix Western (1948-1943); he also was a regular feature in eleven issues of The Comics from Dell (1937-8). I doubt Mix ever saw any of the comics titles with his name; he died, age 60, on October 12, 1940 after the car he was driving was caught in a flash flood and plummeted into a gully. A suitcase placed behind him and containing cash, traveler's checks, and jewels rocketed toward him and broke his neck.
Up front in this issue is "Tom Mix...and the Train That Vanished from the Face of the Earth." Tom is summoned to the War Department and tasked to guard the new Army mystery plane XP-80. to foil a ruthless saboteur named Dr. Goliath by smuggling the plane in an ordinary baggage car, under the watchful eyes of Tom Mix. tom and young Jane board the train, only to meet a disguised Dr. Goliath who manages to throw Tom off the train. The train (and Jane) then vanished! With the help of Pecos Williams and Washington Jefferson Lincoln Lee, Tom managed to track down the baddies and when Dr. Goliath escapes in the XP-80, Tom manages to lasso the plane in mid-flight and -- SPOILER ALERT! -- climbs up to save the day.
In "Tom Mix and the Cry for Help!" young Jane visits her friend Pops Johnson, an old prospector, only to have the two waylaid by a couple of gunmen seeking the gold that Pops was rumored to have hidden in his cabin. The bad guys steal the gold, bind Jane and Pops to cabin timbers, and set the cabin on fire so there will be no witnesses. Bwahahahaha! But the neer-do-wells did not count on Jane being member of the Straight Shooters Club. Using her toes, Jane manages to type out a morse code message to Tom on her Straight Shooter Telegraph Set. Tom (with his horse Tony), Pecos, and the Old Wrangler ride to the rescue. Coincidentally, immediately after this story there is an ad for Straight Shooter's Electric Telegraph Set (just 10 cents in coin and one blue seal from a Ralston hot cereal box -- what a bargain!).
To help bulk out the 34 pages of this issue, there are a whole lot of fillers, many of which plug Ralston, clean living, and/or the Straight Shooters Club.
Enjoy.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=73289
Friday, March 8, 2019
MUSIC FROM THE PAST: HOUSE UN-ACTIVITY BLUES ACTIVITY DREAM
Today is too-soon-gone Richard Farina's birthday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUHAXfL3J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUHAXfL3J4
FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, SIXTEENTH SERIES
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sixteenth Series, edited by Edward L. Ferman (1967)
There's always a problem with the use of the word "Best" in an anthology. (Or an award, for that matter.) Best is an subjective word: one person's meat can be another's poison. Too, the vicissitudes of publishing place demands on an anthologist. Some stories are too long, some are unavailable for reprint, some are to similar to others, some authors produce a large amount of great stories and the editor is forced to choose, and some stories may be included because of popular acclaim -- deserved or not. Some science magazine editors opt out of this quandry by coming up with alternative titles for their "Best of" series; John Campbell numbered his analog anthologies (Analog 1..2..3, etc.), H. L. Gold did the same with his Galaxy anthologies (The Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, The Second Galaxy Reader, the Third...Fourth, etc.), James Quinn's short-lived series also avoided "Best of" with The First Worlds of IF..The Second), and the various editors of Isaac Asimov's Science fiction Magazine simply issued themed anthologies (Isaac Asimov's Aliens, isaac Asimov's Moons, Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams...)
Te Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issued 24 "Best of" anthologies, beginning in 1952, continuing annually until 1967 with the Sixteenth Series, and then irregularly until 1982. This book sThe various editors responsible for these anthologies were Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, Anthony Boucher (solo), Robert P. Mills, Avram Davidson, and Edward L. Ferman. The stories included may not have been the best, but they were damned good reading and providing a good representation of the magazine over the years. (I also should mention that F&SF has consistently been my favorite SF magazine over the years.)
Sixteenth Series contains thirteen stories, four poems, and six Gahan Wilson cartoons from 1965-6. The book should viewed with the "Best of" caveats in the first paragraph, above, but this should not deter anyone. The authors cover the well-known (Asimov, Dick, Zelazny) and the little-known (Joan Patricia Basch, Mose Mallette, John Shepley), as well as some popular authors who may be unfairly called second-tier authors (Biggle, Christopher, Goulart, Bulmer). No award winners are included, but some nominees are. Time travel, space flight, aliens, mushrooms, homosexual dogs, virtual reality, technology run amok, very strange takes on story-telling, and more...it's all here -- humorous, scary, silly, moving. And it's fun.
The stories:
There's always a problem with the use of the word "Best" in an anthology. (Or an award, for that matter.) Best is an subjective word: one person's meat can be another's poison. Too, the vicissitudes of publishing place demands on an anthologist. Some stories are too long, some are unavailable for reprint, some are to similar to others, some authors produce a large amount of great stories and the editor is forced to choose, and some stories may be included because of popular acclaim -- deserved or not. Some science magazine editors opt out of this quandry by coming up with alternative titles for their "Best of" series; John Campbell numbered his analog anthologies (Analog 1..2..3, etc.), H. L. Gold did the same with his Galaxy anthologies (The Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, The Second Galaxy Reader, the Third...Fourth, etc.), James Quinn's short-lived series also avoided "Best of" with The First Worlds of IF..The Second), and the various editors of Isaac Asimov's Science fiction Magazine simply issued themed anthologies (Isaac Asimov's Aliens, isaac Asimov's Moons, Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams...)
Te Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction issued 24 "Best of" anthologies, beginning in 1952, continuing annually until 1967 with the Sixteenth Series, and then irregularly until 1982. This book sThe various editors responsible for these anthologies were Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, Anthony Boucher (solo), Robert P. Mills, Avram Davidson, and Edward L. Ferman. The stories included may not have been the best, but they were damned good reading and providing a good representation of the magazine over the years. (I also should mention that F&SF has consistently been my favorite SF magazine over the years.)
Sixteenth Series contains thirteen stories, four poems, and six Gahan Wilson cartoons from 1965-6. The book should viewed with the "Best of" caveats in the first paragraph, above, but this should not deter anyone. The authors cover the well-known (Asimov, Dick, Zelazny) and the little-known (Joan Patricia Basch, Mose Mallette, John Shepley), as well as some popular authors who may be unfairly called second-tier authors (Biggle, Christopher, Goulart, Bulmer). No award winners are included, but some nominees are. Time travel, space flight, aliens, mushrooms, homosexual dogs, virtual reality, technology run amok, very strange takes on story-telling, and more...it's all here -- humorous, scary, silly, moving. And it's fun.
The stories:
- "Luana" by Gilbert Thomas (September 1966; also picked up by Judith Merril in her "best of'" anthology, SF12)"
- "And Madly Teach" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (May 1966)
- "Matog" by Joan Patricia Basch (August 1966)
- "The Key" by Isaac Asimov (October 1966; a Wendell Urth story; also included in Ferman's The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversay Anthology, 1974)
- "The Seven Wonders of the Universe" by Mose Mallette (August 1966)
- "A Few Kindred Spirits" by "John Christopher" [Sam Christopher Youd] (November 1965; nominated for the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
- "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick (April 1966; noominated for the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Short Story; included in Terry Carr and Donald A Wollheim's World's Best Science Fiction: 1967, 1967; in Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison's Nebula Award Stories Two, 1967; in Ferman and Mills' Twenty Years of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1970; Ferman's The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A Thirty Year Retrospective, 1980; Gordon van Gelder's Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005; it was also reprinted in the October 1979 issue of F&SF; the storeywas also the basis of both the 1990 and 2012 films Total Recall)
- "Three for Carnival" by John Shepley (May 1966)
- "Experiment in Autobiography" by Ron Goulart (July 1966; a Jose Silvera story)
- "The Adjusted" by Kenneth Bulmer (June 1966)
- "The Age of Invention" by Norman Spinrad (July 1966; nominated for the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Short Story)
- "Apology to Inky" by Robert M. Green, Jr. (January 1966; nominated for the 1967 Nebula Award of Best Novelette; finalist for the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novelette)
- "The Moment of the Storm" by Roger Zelazny (June 1966; nominated for the 1967 Nebula Award for Best Novelette; finalist for the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novelette; included in van Gelder's The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology)
The poems:
- "Mickey Finn" by Doris Pitkin Buck (March 1966)
- "Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden" by Gerald Jonas (April 1965; also included in Ferman's The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A Thirty Year Retrospective)
- "Letter to a Tyrant King" by Bill Butler (August 1966)
- "Memo to Secretary" by Pat De Graw (June 1966)
Good stuff.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
MUSIC FROM THE PAST: OLD FRIENDS
One of Kitty's favorite songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPTOY8FrvNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPTOY8FrvNw
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