Harry Stephen Keeler
@harryskeeler.bsky.social
A million stories are trembling to be crystallized on the black ribbon of the typewriter. Located in Chicago, London of the West. Portrait by Al Hirschfeld. Join the Keeler Society: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/keeler/join.html
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Me, I’m jest a dumbdora, I guess, makin’ her livin’ anklin’ over a waxed floor with all th’ apple-knockers, brush-apes, brooksies an’ sponge-cakes in th’ whole world, but I ain’t a clothesline. A snitcher. See? Never was--an’ ain’t beginnin’ now.
[Crazy Magazine featured the only (?) collaboration between Harlan Ellison and Basil Wolverton.]
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
[Crazy Magazine featured the only (?) collaboration between Harlan Ellison and Basil Wolverton.]
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I’ve said this before, but there are four stages of enlightenment when it comes to the Monkees:
"The Monkees were good" is one of the weird little hills I'm willing to die on
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I’ve said this before, but there are four stages of enlightenment when it comes to the Monkees:
[Among the unjustly neglected nursery rhymes. “Piss a Bed.”
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
[Among the unjustly neglected nursery rhymes. “Piss a Bed.”
[Maybe Psychoanalysis Comics was on the ball sometimes.]
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
[Maybe Psychoanalysis Comics was on the ball sometimes.]
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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A BOOK IS NOT O̲L̲D̲ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT!
Rent-More Book Jacket Co. speaks to my soul.
Rent-More Book Jacket Co. speaks to my soul.
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A BOOK IS NOT O̲L̲D̲ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT!
Rent-More Book Jacket Co. speaks to my soul.
Rent-More Book Jacket Co. speaks to my soul.
Those "hard black things" are not "hard" black things--nor are they "spineless" jelly-filled things!
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Those "hard black things" are not "hard" black things--nor are they "spineless" jelly-filled things!
["The sky had hives, it was rashy with stars." Distinctive prose from one of Cornell’s best, Rendezvous in Black!]
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
["The sky had hives, it was rashy with stars." Distinctive prose from one of Cornell’s best, Rendezvous in Black!]
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On Zothique, the last continent on Earth, the sun no longer shone with the whiteness of its prime, but was dim and tarnished as if with a vapor of blood.
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
On Zothique, the last continent on Earth, the sun no longer shone with the whiteness of its prime, but was dim and tarnished as if with a vapor of blood.
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Holy shit: THE MOVIE ORGY, Joe Dante’s legendary 4.5-hour collage film/party mix, has received its first-ever official home video release! 🤯
The Movie Orgy
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This special limited edition spot gloss
vinegarsyndrome.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Holy shit: THE MOVIE ORGY, Joe Dante’s legendary 4.5-hour collage film/party mix, has received its first-ever official home video release! 🤯
[“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.” Cornell Woolrich, the great queerly ambiguous Chicano pulp noir suspense cosmic-horror romantic, was born December 4, 1903.]
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
[“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.” Cornell Woolrich, the great queerly ambiguous Chicano pulp noir suspense cosmic-horror romantic, was born December 4, 1903.]
[Bill Mauldin, 1973]
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
[Bill Mauldin, 1973]
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By this potent Sign,
O jealous king who dreaded cuckoldom,
Murder shall not avert from your proud head
The horns of that opprobrium: for I know
A spell whereby the dead will cuckold you.
O jealous king who dreaded cuckoldom,
Murder shall not avert from your proud head
The horns of that opprobrium: for I know
A spell whereby the dead will cuckold you.
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
By this potent Sign,
O jealous king who dreaded cuckoldom,
Murder shall not avert from your proud head
The horns of that opprobrium: for I know
A spell whereby the dead will cuckold you.
O jealous king who dreaded cuckoldom,
Murder shall not avert from your proud head
The horns of that opprobrium: for I know
A spell whereby the dead will cuckold you.
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went 2 the sea of glup and everyone knew you
August 16, 2024 at 2:11 AM
went 2 the sea of glup and everyone knew you
[“Little Claude” is a bleak and hilarious 1962 classic from Jim Copp and Ed Brown.]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1i4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1i4...
Jim Copp & Ed Brown perform "Little Claude"
YouTube video by tleyhe
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
[“Little Claude” is a bleak and hilarious 1962 classic from Jim Copp and Ed Brown.]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1i4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1i4...
[Jim Copp, born on this day in 1913, performs his masterpiece “Agnes Mouthwash”!]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEp...
Jim Copp Performs "Agnes Mouthwash & Friends"
YouTube video by tleyhe
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
[Jim Copp, born on this day in 1913, performs his masterpiece “Agnes Mouthwash”!]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mEp...
[In the often undistinguished field of "records for children," Jim Copp's "Thimble Corner" is a towering masterpiece, and available on the Archive. Includes "The Turkey in Satin," "The Dog that Went to Yale," and "Cloudy Afternoon." Here's a peony for your lapel.]
archive.org/details/lp_t...
archive.org/details/lp_t...
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
[In the often undistinguished field of "records for children," Jim Copp's "Thimble Corner" is a towering masterpiece, and available on the Archive. Includes "The Turkey in Satin," "The Dog that Went to Yale," and "Cloudy Afternoon." Here's a peony for your lapel.]
archive.org/details/lp_t...
archive.org/details/lp_t...
[Incredibly, footage exists of Doodles Weaver, Sigourney’s mad uncle, performing Jim Copp's "Arabella and the Water Tank."]
www.jazz-on-film.com/arabella-and...
www.jazz-on-film.com/arabella-and...
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
[Incredibly, footage exists of Doodles Weaver, Sigourney’s mad uncle, performing Jim Copp's "Arabella and the Water Tank."]
www.jazz-on-film.com/arabella-and...
www.jazz-on-film.com/arabella-and...
[James Copp III, a nightclub act since November 1940, ends with "a noise like an orang-utan."]
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
[James Copp III, a nightclub act since November 1940, ends with "a noise like an orang-utan."]
[Jim Copp’s 1940s recordings! In "Peaches and Myrtle," one showgirl dismembers another with an ax, for publicity. "Myrtle's head was rolling across the floor, hippity hoppity! 'Easy as pie,' said Peaches."]
www.kiddierecords.com/2009/index.htm
www.kiddierecords.com/2009/index.htm
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
[Jim Copp’s 1940s recordings! In "Peaches and Myrtle," one showgirl dismembers another with an ax, for publicity. "Myrtle's head was rolling across the floor, hippity hoppity! 'Easy as pie,' said Peaches."]
www.kiddierecords.com/2009/index.htm
www.kiddierecords.com/2009/index.htm