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

[Oh, roar a roar for Nora,
Nora Alice in the night,
For she has seen Aurora
Borealis burning bright.

A furore for our Nora!
And applaud Aurora seen!
Where, throughout the Summer, has
Our Borealis been?]

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Northern Lights

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Joqatana @joqatana.bsky.social · 15h

Brother Theodore was the first man to propose marriage to me. Not that I remember. I was 3.

Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15h

[Brother Theodore, holocaust survivor and stand-up tragedian, was BOTD in 1906 in Dusseldorf.]

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Brother Theodore - Coral Records Presents Theodore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Introduction And Berenice 8:42 The Willow Landscape 5:30 The Curse Of The Toad 9:13 Quadrupedism

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🦇The Abominable Dr Prunesquallor, PhD, JD, TLA 🦇 @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 14h

Hell, I remember him from the Joey Bishop Show!

Also, I saw him in live performance twice.

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Sean Murphy @sesn.bsky.social · 14h

Always a highlight of those early Lettermans.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15h

[Brother Theodore, holocaust survivor and stand-up tragedian, was BOTD in 1906 in Dusseldorf.]

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Brother Theodore - Coral Records Presents Theodore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Introduction And Berenice 8:42 The Willow Landscape 5:30 The Curse Of The Toad 9:13 Quadrupedism

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 15h

[RIP Nakadai Tatsuya, 92, a bit part samuari in SEVEN SAMURAI, Minokichi the Woodcutter in the snowy episode of KWAIDAN, also in RAN, HARA KIRI, YOJIMBO, SANJURO, KAGEMUSHA, KWAIDAN, and THE HUMAN CONDITION.]

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 20h

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 16h

[Sam Henderson collected HUNDREDS of animated and/or drawn title sequences here.]

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Animated and/or drawn sequences : Sam Henderson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Opening titles and/or animated sequences in moviesAlways adding more. Suggestions welcome but make sure they're here first.

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 17h

[“Perhaps a life that stretched through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name Armistice Day. Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.” --Walt Kelly]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 1d

[RIP Betty Harford, 98, who appeared on The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. Betty was the voice of Gumba, mother of Gumby.]

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 1d

[Bobby Rush was born Emmett Ellis Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, 92 years ago today, to have a hit with “Chicken Heads” in 1971, win a Grammy for “Porcupine Meat” in 2017, and play harmonica on the SINNERS (2025) soundtrack. He’s now on tour!]

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 4d

Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.

I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.

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Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 4d

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Burt Meyer, a Chicago toy designer behind classics like Lite-Brite, Mouse Trap, and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, died Oct. 30 at 99, leaving a joyful, generations-spanning legacy.

Burt Meyer, Chicago toymaker behind classics like Mouse Trap, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, has died at 99

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Rick Bradford @poopsheet.bsky.social · 4d

She was so good in Little Shop.

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Gregory Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 4d

My sweet Romeena

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

[Happy 92nd birthday to Jackie Joseph, who portrayed Melody on Josie and the Pussycats, Jackie on the Doris Day Show, and, OF COURSE, Audrey Fulquard in the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)!]

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

[Daffy Duck Becomes Danny Kaye, becomes Eyeball. BOOK REVUE, 1946.]

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

[“The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.”]

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UCSB Library & Dust-to-Digital: Saving America's Historic Music Archive

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

[Alex in the sink.]

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

[Paper dolls of Sweden’s beloved Pelle Svanslös.]

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

[Gracias.]

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

[Happy 92nd birthday to Jackie Joseph, who portrayed Melody on Josie and the Pussycats, Jackie on the Doris Day Show, and, OF COURSE, Audrey Fulquard in the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960)!]

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Erin C Alexander @erinalexander.bsky.social · 4d

“Erin's work lingers in a space where the familiar begins to feel strange. A calm surface rippling with something darker underneath. We invite you to scratch the surface and discover what lies beneath...”

All four of my zines are now available through Afterword Books:

A photo of four zines laid out titled Where People Enjoy Eating, Untamed, Danse Macabre, and A Violent Life

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

[Cover, Noble Head Funnies #4, featuring Mr. Kitty Fluff, the world’s most noble cat.]

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

[Mr. Kitty Fluff cartoons. Only in “Noble Head Funnies.”]

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