Mike
@libernovus.bsky.social
Perpetual reader. Pre-production editor for a university press. New Orleans born. Tweets about books, music, old movies, and cats. 📚 🎶 🎥 😺 ⚜️
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Antony Perkins in front of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York in 1957. On the marquis, the play “Look Homeward, Angel” in which he starred.
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Antony Perkins in front of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York in 1957. On the marquis, the play “Look Homeward, Angel” in which he starred.
Top Hat is 90 years old next month!
July 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Top Hat is 90 years old next month!
This entire conversation happens inside my brain when I'm trying to spell his name. 🤣 #cunkonlife
June 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This entire conversation happens inside my brain when I'm trying to spell his name. 🤣 #cunkonlife
American Gothic by Grant Wood, with models Nan Wood (Grant's sister) and Dr. Byron McKeeby (Grant's dentist)
June 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
American Gothic by Grant Wood, with models Nan Wood (Grant's sister) and Dr. Byron McKeeby (Grant's dentist)
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James Cagney and The Dead End Kids for Michael Curtiz’s ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938).
May 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
James Cagney and The Dead End Kids for Michael Curtiz’s ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938).
Happy 78th birthday to Emmylou Harris. Thirteen (times 6).
April 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy 78th birthday to Emmylou Harris. Thirteen (times 6).
Bill and Ted's Existential Adventure
March 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Bill and Ted's Existential Adventure
This and the silent Marx Brothers film are at the top of my list for lost film I'd most like to see.
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Guy Kibbee in “Convention City” (Warners, 1933)
Joan Blondell in 1970: “I wonder what happened to that picture, because that is the raunchiest thing there has ever been… It was one of the funniest things ever written.”
Joan Blondell in 1970: “I wonder what happened to that picture, because that is the raunchiest thing there has ever been… It was one of the funniest things ever written.”
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This and the silent Marx Brothers film are at the top of my list for lost film I'd most like to see.
The Right Stuff kitty! www.instagram.com/p/DHbhpCnoRbI/
March 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Right Stuff kitty! www.instagram.com/p/DHbhpCnoRbI/
If I were a DJ, my name would be DJ Ice-Nine.
March 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If I were a DJ, my name would be DJ Ice-Nine.
Tom Waits still sounding majestic in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Live 2025)
YouTube video by SPianista
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March 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Tom Waits still sounding majestic in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbkt...
Debbie Harry and John Waters at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar party. This gave me a big smile. They look great!
March 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Debbie Harry and John Waters at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar party. This gave me a big smile. They look great!
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Who needs a new Wes Anderson film when we have the Milwaukee Public Museum at home (for now)
February 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Who needs a new Wes Anderson film when we have the Milwaukee Public Museum at home (for now)
I stumbled across this lithograph in a book about Currier and Ives. Creepy Edgar Allan Poe baby will haunt your dreams.
February 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I stumbled across this lithograph in a book about Currier and Ives. Creepy Edgar Allan Poe baby will haunt your dreams.
I can't believe this exists. Ringo and the Smothers Brothers singing "The No No Song" from 1975. And Bob Einstein even appears at the end as a cop! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzxr...
Ringo Starr | No No Song | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
YouTube video by The Smothers Brothers
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February 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I can't believe this exists. Ringo and the Smothers Brothers singing "The No No Song" from 1975. And Bob Einstein even appears at the end as a cop! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzxr...
If an author's name were "C. Rider," then a footnote could read "See C. Rider."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5h...
The Animals - See See Rider (1967)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
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February 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If an author's name were "C. Rider," then a footnote could read "See C. Rider."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5h...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5h...
Quantum Leap cellphone case. Take my money.
February 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Quantum Leap cellphone case. Take my money.
The final shot of Lindsay Anderson's THE WHALES OF AUGUST (1987) and a detail of Caspar David Friedrich's MOONRISE BY THE SEA (1822).
January 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The final shot of Lindsay Anderson's THE WHALES OF AUGUST (1987) and a detail of Caspar David Friedrich's MOONRISE BY THE SEA (1822).
Stephen King and Peter Straub, 1984.
January 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Stephen King and Peter Straub, 1984.
When Shelby Foote submitted manuscripts for publication, was his preferred citation style called Footenotes?
That joke kills at the MLA.
That joke kills at the MLA.
January 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When Shelby Foote submitted manuscripts for publication, was his preferred citation style called Footenotes?
That joke kills at the MLA.
That joke kills at the MLA.
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Lillian Roth in "Madame Satan" - BOTD
December 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Lillian Roth in "Madame Satan" - BOTD