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Harry Stephen Keeler

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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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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 2d

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 1d

Beano #974, March 18, 1961

Biffo feeds a talking orange cat a delicious ham dinner and is upset at how much it is eating.
TALKING ORANGE CAT: --And nice food! I'll just have another slice!
BIFFO: What an eater!

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 13h

[Gloria Jones and T. Rex, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"]

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t.rex dock of the bay

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · Oct 19

[George Nader, BOTD in 1921, starred in ROBOT MONSTER, sacrificed himself to the Tabloid Gods to save Rock Hudson, went to Germany and became an action star, and wrote a sexy science fiction novel about a robot guy with vibrator hands. Who among us has accomplished so much?]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 13h

[Peter Max Finkelstein is 88 years old today.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 13h

[Original “Tainted Love” singer Gloria Jones is 80 years old today. She joined T. Rex, had a son, Rolan, with Marc Bolan, and was driving the Mini 1275 GT when it struck a tree and killed Marc. In 2010, Gloria and Rolan established the Marc Bolan School of Music & Film in Sierra Leone.]

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 13h

“It’s de nuts!” said a cauliflower-eared man in front, turning about and surveying the crowd through a mouthful of tooth-gaps. “I’ve hoi’d o’ gittin’ rode out of town on a rail--pole-ridin’, they call it--but I never hoi’d o’ a pole-rided eggs.”
“Polarized, you poor klunck,” came withering comment.

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · Oct 31

Biffo the Bear sitting on a stool with a smug expression, drinking from a bucket of yellow fluid with a long straw, saying "I deserve this!"

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

Watch the earthworm; miss the eclipse.

Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

Bank Place--towards where Isberian Jones was now heading to see the non-seeable egg!--was as odd a business street perhaps as was the egg itself an odd kind of egg.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in command now! And from now on, this paper is a news sheet again--not a disgraceful leg gazette.

Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

[Happy 81st birthday to Linda November, voice of the Meow Mix cat! Linda also sang the theme song to THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES (1973), Galaxy Glue from THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN (1981), and thousands of jingles, and produced a tribute to Spike Jones.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

[Italy's gigantic demon cat, Il Gatto Mammone, portrayed by the great Dino Buzzati, BOTD in 1906.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

[A satanic porcupine tempts Mons. Frigimelica. Saint Rita of Cascia is poised to intervene. From I miracoli di Val Morel by Dino Buzzati, BOTD in 1906.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

[The dreaded Marmoset the Cat attacks the bears in Dino Buzzati’s La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (1945), translated as The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily. Dino was BOTD in 1906.]

Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

["It seems to me, fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism." Dino Buzzati, journalist, novelist, illustrator, librettist, born Oct. 16, 1906. You can tell just from the title that "The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily" is one of the best books in the world.]

Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 3d

[When scattered by the wind the leaves make strange ghosts in the sky. From "Poem Strip" by Dino Buzzati, born Oct. 16, 1906.]

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Joe Fordham @flashfilms.bsky.social · 4d

When I interviewed screenwriter Brannon Braga about "Star Trek: First Contact," he told me Virginia's performance as the disembodied head of 'Jan in the Pan' was inspiration for the Borg Queen's head being lowered onto her body. 🖖🤓

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 4d

[Liliana Wilczkowska, also known as Chesty Morgan, holocaust survivor and Doris Wishman muse, celebrates her 88th birthday today. She was to have portrayed Divine's mother in the doomed FLAMINGOS FOREVER.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 4d

[Virginia Leith, born 100 years ago today, portrayed "The Girl" in Kubrick's first feature, FEAR AND DESIRE (1953), and achieved cinematic immortality as Jan "In The Pan" Compton in THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962).]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 5d

["Roundhay Garden Scene" was filmed OTD in 1888. 10 days later, star Sarah Whitley, 72, died, the first movie actor to do so. In 1890 filmmaker Louis le Prince got on a train in France and was never seen again. His son, also in the film, was shot, mysteriously, on Fire Island.]

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 12d

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 11d

[Here’s a real Mary Shomette Gooch.]

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Mary Kathryn “Katie” Shomette Gooch (1901-1996) -...

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 13d

Me checking the news these days.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 12d

[From the Public Domain Review.]

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Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)

A charming little illustrated book for young readers, consisting entirely of words of one syllable.

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