The Seekers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5pvpIvz5YQ
Small House of Everything
Saturday, May 31, 2014
THE ROVER
The Rover was a British boys' story magazine that ran from 1922 to 1973. It was one of a number of boys' magazines published by D. C. Thomson known as "Tuppenny Bloods" because of the two pence price of each issue. The Rover was also one of the "Big Five" boys' papers from Thomson; the others were Adventure, Skipper, Hotspur, and The Wizard. Television eventually drew many boys from the story papers and, by 1961, The Rover absorbed Adventure, and by 1963, The Wizard. The Rover limped along for another decade before closing its doors.
Here's the October 29, 1927 issue:
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40895
Here's the October 29, 1927 issue:
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=40895
Friday, May 30, 2014
WHY I'LL NEVER WIN ANY POETRY AWARDS
A Bit of Doggerel To Celebrate Hal Clement's 92 Birthday
Barlenna captained the Bree
On a world with great gravitee;
He trekked cross his globe
To recover a probe
-- An Astounding achievement, you see.
Barlenna captained the Bree
On a world with great gravitee;
He trekked cross his globe
To recover a probe
-- An Astounding achievement, you see.
IS IT OVER YET?
Just because today is Wyonna's 50th birthday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvNDOnxL9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvNDOnxL9g
FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE BOOKS OF MAGIC 4: CONSEQUENCES
Thean Tim thought Books of Magic 4: Consequences by Carla Jablonski (2003)
When you find the decapitated head of the imaginary friend you had when you were five...well, you know you're going to have a difficult day.
Let's back up a bit and talk about The Books of Magic. Back in 1998,Neil Gaiman received a call from Karen Berger, an editor for DC Comics; she wanted him to write a comic about the history of magic in the DC Comics universe. "Sort of a who's Who, but with a story?" Gaiman at first declined, but the idea gnawed at him until he relented. Teaming with artist John Bolton, he produced the first four volumes of The Books of Magic comics featuring 13-year-old Timothy Hunter.
Young Tim receives a visit from a group of people he calls The Trenchcoat Brigade, among them were John Constantine and the magician Zatanna. They inform Tim that he is (or, at least, has the power to be) the most powerful magician ever. They take him to the past where he saw Atlantis sink, and across the Atlantic to America, to the Land of Faerie, and to the end of eternity. Back in London, young Tim is left to digest all of this. Being the most powerful magician ever might have been something cool except poor Tim doesn't know how to perform magic, and when he does, it's by accident and doesn't turn out exactly as he wants. The Books of Magic a monthly title for DC and the writing duties were taken over by John Ney Reiber. In 2002, Carla Jablonski began writing YA novels based on the comic book.Consequences was the fourth in the series and was based on The Books of Magic: Summonings, a story serialized in 1994 and 1995.
By this time, Tim has learned that his real father is Tamlin, the Falconer of Queen Titania of Faerie and who had sacrificed himself to save Tim from Queen Titania. (The man who had raised Tim and whom he had thought of as father had married Tim's mother while she was pregnant, knowing that he was not the child's father. Tim's mother had died in an automobile accident tht has also taken his father's arm.) Tim also has met Molly O'Reilly, a fearless girl who has become his best (actually, only) friend. Tim vaguely realizes his feelings about Mollie may go beyond friendship -- something to do with hormones or something, I guess.
Anyway, Mollie is his best friend and Tim feels guilty about not telling her that he is a magician. He is determined to finally tell her the truth when he stumbles on the severed head of his childhood imaginary friend. He soon realizes that thoughts have consequences and that, since he learned about his powers, his thoughts that he had when he was very young have taken on a reality of their own. Tim's last adventure had been in Free Country, a land where unwanted children could live safely forever as children. (Any relation to Never Never Land is intentional.) Young teen Marya had decided that she did not want to be a child forever so she snuck along as Tim left Free Country. Marya's friend Daniel thinks that Tim had seduced Marya and fostered a strong hatred toward Tim. Daniel vows to leave Free Country, find Tim, and destroy him.
Meanwhile in Faerie, King Auberon is bored and decides to visit the world of the humans for a bit of adventure. And, in the sewers of London, a clockwork Fagin-like character named Slaggingham is using magic to suck the souls from his minions. And a unicorn is roaming about London. And Awn the Blink is busy making things not work. And Queen Titania really, really wants to kill Tim. And Marya is busy taking dance lessons. And Daniel has arrived in a choking dust cloud made of his rage and anger.
And all Tim wants to do is have an ice cream with Mollie.
A fun book and a fun series. I'm going to have to read the others.
(And by the way, if you need a really neat steampunk swear, there's one in the book: "Tippy-tappy torque wrench!" Feel free to use it whenever you are mad or frustrated.)
When you find the decapitated head of the imaginary friend you had when you were five...well, you know you're going to have a difficult day.
Let's back up a bit and talk about The Books of Magic. Back in 1998,Neil Gaiman received a call from Karen Berger, an editor for DC Comics; she wanted him to write a comic about the history of magic in the DC Comics universe. "Sort of a who's Who, but with a story?" Gaiman at first declined, but the idea gnawed at him until he relented. Teaming with artist John Bolton, he produced the first four volumes of The Books of Magic comics featuring 13-year-old Timothy Hunter.
Young Tim receives a visit from a group of people he calls The Trenchcoat Brigade, among them were John Constantine and the magician Zatanna. They inform Tim that he is (or, at least, has the power to be) the most powerful magician ever. They take him to the past where he saw Atlantis sink, and across the Atlantic to America, to the Land of Faerie, and to the end of eternity. Back in London, young Tim is left to digest all of this. Being the most powerful magician ever might have been something cool except poor Tim doesn't know how to perform magic, and when he does, it's by accident and doesn't turn out exactly as he wants. The Books of Magic a monthly title for DC and the writing duties were taken over by John Ney Reiber. In 2002, Carla Jablonski began writing YA novels based on the comic book.Consequences was the fourth in the series and was based on The Books of Magic: Summonings, a story serialized in 1994 and 1995.
By this time, Tim has learned that his real father is Tamlin, the Falconer of Queen Titania of Faerie and who had sacrificed himself to save Tim from Queen Titania. (The man who had raised Tim and whom he had thought of as father had married Tim's mother while she was pregnant, knowing that he was not the child's father. Tim's mother had died in an automobile accident tht has also taken his father's arm.) Tim also has met Molly O'Reilly, a fearless girl who has become his best (actually, only) friend. Tim vaguely realizes his feelings about Mollie may go beyond friendship -- something to do with hormones or something, I guess.
Anyway, Mollie is his best friend and Tim feels guilty about not telling her that he is a magician. He is determined to finally tell her the truth when he stumbles on the severed head of his childhood imaginary friend. He soon realizes that thoughts have consequences and that, since he learned about his powers, his thoughts that he had when he was very young have taken on a reality of their own. Tim's last adventure had been in Free Country, a land where unwanted children could live safely forever as children. (Any relation to Never Never Land is intentional.) Young teen Marya had decided that she did not want to be a child forever so she snuck along as Tim left Free Country. Marya's friend Daniel thinks that Tim had seduced Marya and fostered a strong hatred toward Tim. Daniel vows to leave Free Country, find Tim, and destroy him.
Meanwhile in Faerie, King Auberon is bored and decides to visit the world of the humans for a bit of adventure. And, in the sewers of London, a clockwork Fagin-like character named Slaggingham is using magic to suck the souls from his minions. And a unicorn is roaming about London. And Awn the Blink is busy making things not work. And Queen Titania really, really wants to kill Tim. And Marya is busy taking dance lessons. And Daniel has arrived in a choking dust cloud made of his rage and anger.
And all Tim wants to do is have an ice cream with Mollie.
A fun book and a fun series. I'm going to have to read the others.
(And by the way, if you need a really neat steampunk swear, there's one in the book: "Tippy-tappy torque wrench!" Feel free to use it whenever you are mad or frustrated.)
Thursday, May 29, 2014
CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER
From February 26, 1944, here's George Harmon Coxe's famous detective Flashgun Casey in "The Clue in the Clouds." Frank Lovejoy was originally cast as Jack "Flash" Casey, but it was Jim Backus who originated the role on CBS radio. Alas, Backus was Magooed out by the sixth episode to be replaced by Staats Cotsworth and shortly after "The Clue in the Clouds" aired, Alice Reinhart replaced Jone Allison as Ann Williams ( a role also played at one time by Betty Furness). John Gibson played comic relief Ethelbert, the bartender at The Blue Note Cafe. Scripts in 1944 were handled by Charles Holden.
http://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/8596/Detective/Casey__Crime_Photographer/44_02_26_Clue_In_The_Clouds.html
http://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/8596/Detective/Casey__Crime_Photographer/44_02_26_Clue_In_The_Clouds.html
OVERLOOKED MUSIC: THE ZOMBIES
Not really overlooked, but sometimes overshadowed in the British Invasion. Here's a dozen blasts from the past.
Changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYgpenY0D8
Can't Nobody Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZg2lv2Doc
She's Not There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BNd5NgfeII
Brief Candles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-i9y4ZA7Vw
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftemreRiAzM
Tell Her No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSMbQKQEJI
The Time of the Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4Zrap5lXo
Gotta Get a Hold of Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyROCysfN0
Summertime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmOIW63Emw0
Hung Up on a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOd6Uajh-4
I Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtx-UZjoKtw
The Look of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4emLYfb9rA
Changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYgpenY0D8
Can't Nobody Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZg2lv2Doc
She's Not There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BNd5NgfeII
Brief Candles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-i9y4ZA7Vw
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftemreRiAzM
Tell Her No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSMbQKQEJI
The Time of the Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4Zrap5lXo
Gotta Get a Hold of Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyROCysfN0
Summertime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmOIW63Emw0
Hung Up on a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOd6Uajh-4
I Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtx-UZjoKtw
The Look of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4emLYfb9rA
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