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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And thank the Lord for--whoa--Tilley!--don’t tell me--that’s a harvester machine factory--it is!--it is!--we’re coming in at last--to Cleveland. Good aft’noon, Cleveland, could you tell a pore clod f’m out’n th’ sticks--a clod whut drives a sarcus truck fer a livin’--whar’at is yo’re Probaty Court?

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[BOTD a century ago, saxophone deity John Coltrane; kite designer and Etch-a-Sketch inventor André Cassagnes.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

[BOTD in 1838, Victorria Woodhull, feminist, stockbroker, free love advocate, publisher of the Communist Manifesto, spiritualist, and candidate for president of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket.] travsd.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Of Claflins and Clairvoyance: The Story of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin

Congratulations to Liza Lentini, whom, it was announced two days ago, has just been named editor-in-chief of Spin magazine. Back in 2008, I reviewed Lentini’s play Woodhull for some rag or an…

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doctors they were--or represented! Doctors who were here to declare a fish dead!

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

[Happy 90th birthday to Asa Maynor, who made her film debut in Jerry Warren's MAN BEAST (1956) and went on to play the stewardess who tries to keep William Shatner under control in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963). She was married to Ed "Kookie" Byrnes for a few years.]

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens

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Letters from Zothique @klarkasht.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven't gone to any movies lately. I agree with you that The Invisible Man was excellent.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you toss a virtuous loaf of bread into the troubled sea of life it comes back to you an angel cake, covered with pink frosting!

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dell Otto not to vorgessen to giff Hildegarde shes daily piece von liffer becoz dachshunder shes can get der eeneemia same like peoples.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Strange!” muttered the circus proprietor. “Strange--that they’re willing to pay one thousand dollars--for a diorama--that cost me--only $6.50! Specially, when it’s so--so ghastly! Or--or so comic! For after all--which is it? Ghastly? Or comic? Yes, which? But the price is strange."

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[Happy birthday to Jan Handzlik, who played Tommy in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Martians are Due on Maple Street," and Patrick in AUNTIE MAME (1958). But now he's a lawyer.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[1889 cylinder recording: Robert Browning attempts to recite "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," forgets the words.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot...

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Robert Browning Recites His Poem (1889 Edison Cylinder)

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bushpies Mars, Editor of Sensational Crime Pictures Magazine, Milwaukee, the first issue of which however had not yet been published, and former Editor of Startling Crimes Magazine, same city, reached forward impatiently for the phone on his desk, which was shrilling at him.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[You can commission animal paintings from Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family. Look, they're surrounded by beans.] handsomefamily.com/order-a-port... archive.org/details/tvtu...

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Ramble House Books @ramblehouse.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Ramble House is working on a rerelease of Fatal Accident, a Boscobell mystery from 1936 by the character's creator Cecil Wills. ramblehouse.com/fatalacciden...

The cover to the Ramble House edition of FATAL ACCIDENT, mostly black with the title words making a T-shape crossing on the A. Cecil M. Wells, A 'Boscobell' Adventure. A Ramble House Mystery.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[Singer and actress Helen Grayco was BOTD in 1924 to appear in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, fail to replace Deanna Durbin at Universal, marry Spike Jones, and, in 1976, emerge from semi-retirement to record this gay boyfriend anthem, "If That's How Nature Made Him."] www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5t5...

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I posted a Shooby Taylor song earlier today and I didn’t even realize it was his birthday! bsky.app/profile/agpa...

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cat attack on Max Linder!

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm from somewhere else, definitely. If I was born, I definitely existed somewhere else before birth. (Sun Ra)

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[In 1966 the Shadows of Knight recorded a song about potato chips, which was given away on a flexi disc with purchase of Fairmont Potato Chips in the Chicago area. Maybe HSK heard it.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bU...

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Shadows Of Knight - Potato Chip

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[The brilliant and unique Shooby Taylor, Human Horn, was BOTD in 1929, to scat sing over other people's records Can you deny that this is the best song you ever heard?] www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqx...

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Shooby Taylor - Folsom Prison Blues

YouTube video by nailheadparty

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[Mary Lou Williams cited, as her greatest influence, Chicago's own Lovie Austin, pianist, singer, composer, and bandleader, BOTD in 1887. Here's Lovie and her Blues Serenaders with "Frog Tongue Stomp" backed with "Jackass Blues."] archive.org/details/78_f... archive.org/details/78_j...

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[I was just about to make the mistake of thinking Resident Evil was not one of the most video-game inspired cinematic experiences I could possibly have. Thank you for preventing me from making this mistake Brian.] www.rogerebert.com/reviews/resi...

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Resident Evil review: Zach Cregger resurrects the video game movie

Make no mistake: This is one of the most video game-inspired cinematic experiences you could possibly have.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

[RIP Portuguese water dog and White House denizen of better days, Sunny Obama, 14.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

[RIP Rosalind Ashford, of Martha and the Vandellas. She left the group in 1969 and went to work at Bell Telephone. Rosalind is survived by Martha Reeves and several other Vandellas.] archive.org/details/mart...

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

[Filmmaker Curtis Harrington was BOTD a century ago. He worked with Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren, and cast Marjorie Cameron as The Water Witch in NIGHT TIDE (1961). He financed his last film by selling his signed copy of Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth.] archive.org/details/Curt...

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Curtis Harrington's "NIGHT TIDE" (1961) movie trailer

The original movie trailer of Dennis Hopper's early role Night Tide, the eerie tale of a young sailor took under the spell of a mermaid of some sort... more info on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055230...

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teakagee.bsky.social @teakagee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Their Salt and Peanuts is the one you hear on the Iron Giant soundtrack when they introduce the beatnik sculptor

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16/09/2026

'Leif Eriksson Discovers America' by Hans Dahl (1849-1937) And how it would have looked today if Hollywood filmed it ;)

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

["Uh! Oh! Part 2" by the Nutty Squirrels, a Chipmunks knockoff but hipper, was a #14 hit in 1959. They covered Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts" and Cannonball Adderley played saxophone on their record.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU19...

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The Nutty Squirrels - Uh! Oh! - Pt 2 (1959)

YouTube video by kmsl1240

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

[Sascha Burland, one of the Nutty Squirrels guys, wrote "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)," an Alka-Seltzer jingle and a #3 instrumental hit for the T-Bones in 1965.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=thob...

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No Matter What Shape {Your Stomach's In} (2017 Stereo Remaster) - The T - Bones

YouTube video by Tiger Rogers

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

[Peter Falk was BOTD in 1927 to inspire postage stamps in Guiné-Bissau.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Agatha Christie was BOTD in 1890 in Torquay; Harry Stephen Keeler was born six weeks later in Chicago.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Twinkle Watts, child bowling champion and Republic Studios house B Western child star, was BOTD in 1933, and lived another 70 years after apparently hanging up the cowboy hat and the bowling shoes.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[P. S. Here's the original cover painting by the great Robert McGinniss (1926 – 2025).]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Happy 94th birthday to Ann Bannon, author of the Beebo Brinker chronicles (1957-1962), which "rest on the bookshelf of nearly every even faintly literate Lesbian."] www.annbannon.com

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

["There Are Some Things They Will Never Know." A tribute to "Beebo Brinker" author Ann Bannon, 94 years old today, from painter Pamela Morris.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Pink and paisley skies Shining in green eyes A magic pin wheel London flowers fair Blooming in her hair Dusty Springfield How's this for a three way. The song "Dusty Springfield," written by Norma Tanega, recorded by Blossom Dearie.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQl...

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Dusty Springfield

YouTube video by Blossom Dearie - Topic

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[The best way to open a song. "The World is Just a Great Big Onion." Why, yes it is, even today, Marvin and Tammi, and songwriters Ashford & Simpson.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHyv...

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The Onion Song

YouTube video by Marvin Gaye - Topic

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[Happy birthday to Dolly Read, BOTD in 1944 to star in BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970). Kelly and Casey's singing voices are Lynn Carey from Mama Lion and Barbara Robison from The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. Dolly was married to Dick Martin from Laugh-In.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10g...

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1/5) Movie CLIP - The Kelly Affair Perform (1970) HD

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