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1957 horror, dir. Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins: IMDb. Karswell's enemies seem to die very conveniently for him; but of course there's no such thing as magic.
Surely, you have enjoyed that cinematic classic, “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Surely you remember the toga party at Delta House. Surely you savored the jumpin’ jive of Otis Day & The Knights. If so, you will recall John Belushi, as...
Jacques Goudstikker's gallery, 1927-40Amsterdam. WikiJacques Goudstikker (1897–1940) was born in Amsterdam, son of a Jewish art dealer. He studied at the Commercial School in Amsterdam, then in Leiden and Utrecht. In 1919 he joined his...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this wide black-and-white view across an Ontario field as storm clouds massed overhead. A single tree rises from the distant treeline, anchoring the composition beneath the shifting cloud formations. The...
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you...
Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Pokémon Heartgold I vividly remember playing Pokémon Blue in the back of...
R2-WRWLF Halloween Edition Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Wolf ears Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $14.99-$17.99-$14.99 Availability: August 2026 Appearances: n/a Bio: All different...
It makes sense to me now, in a way it never did before—the idea of performers failing to adapt to a new medium, as they used to say of the stars of the silent movies. I think I must always previously have parsed this as a sort of...
Paninaro.uno
This popular US R&B quartet were billed as The Original Coasters because they were led by tenor singer Cornelius “Cornell” Gunter who’d been an “original” member of The Coasters who had moved to New York from Los Angeles to record for...
Fictional schools: there’s a new one in town I recently did this post LIVING A LIFE IN BOOKS: HOLIDAYS on fictional holidays I would like to enjoy. I like the idea and want to do more such posts, and the next one invited itself in with a...
Oura faces lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers about sleep-tracking accuracy:“To capitalize on consumers’ desire for a tracker that could actually track sleep and monitor their sleep cycles, Oura sold expensive tracking rings,...
There are a lot of guides online for recording cassettes This is another one, because why not. This isn’t a guide for how to get the ~best~ sound, it’s just how I figured out to do it using stuff that was already around or easily...
In the mountains.
Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes. The publisher's website provides a brief summary of this 'little known' 1864 novel by George...