Harry Stephen Keeler
@harryskeeler.bsky.social
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
Pinned
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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Let's learn about the Wonky Wolf of Leeds.
Discovered 1840 in Aldborough, North Yorkshire, the mosaic dates to ~300 AD & probably represents a Roman provincial artist's attempt to tell the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, the founding myth of Rome.
Discovered 1840 in Aldborough, North Yorkshire, the mosaic dates to ~300 AD & probably represents a Roman provincial artist's attempt to tell the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, the founding myth of Rome.
April 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Let's learn about the Wonky Wolf of Leeds.
Discovered 1840 in Aldborough, North Yorkshire, the mosaic dates to ~300 AD & probably represents a Roman provincial artist's attempt to tell the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, the founding myth of Rome.
Discovered 1840 in Aldborough, North Yorkshire, the mosaic dates to ~300 AD & probably represents a Roman provincial artist's attempt to tell the story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf, the founding myth of Rome.
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Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
[Shakespeare quotations in stained glass at the Winchester Mystery House.]
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
[Shakespeare quotations in stained glass at the Winchester Mystery House.]
It was a scowl, that scowl, quite out of keeping with Clarvoe’s own airy-fairy, man-about-town attire, consisting of glove-fitting black and white pin-striped suit, green and white checked soft shirt with soft plaid tie carrying tiny sparkling diamond, and--that rakishly-set purple velour hat!
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It was a scowl, that scowl, quite out of keeping with Clarvoe’s own airy-fairy, man-about-town attire, consisting of glove-fitting black and white pin-striped suit, green and white checked soft shirt with soft plaid tie carrying tiny sparkling diamond, and--that rakishly-set purple velour hat!
To be able to do criminological work in a city like this, Quiribus, you’d have to have lived here, and gone about here, for more than a year, at the very least; for this London of the West is too vast, too huge, for a man to operate in it efficiently without knowing it literally from A to Izzard.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To be able to do criminological work in a city like this, Quiribus, you’d have to have lived here, and gone about here, for more than a year, at the very least; for this London of the West is too vast, too huge, for a man to operate in it efficiently without knowing it literally from A to Izzard.
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“Fanny, you do not mean half you say.”
“Yes, often almost the whole.”
“Yes, often almost the whole.”
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Fanny, you do not mean half you say.”
“Yes, often almost the whole.”
“Yes, often almost the whole.”
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Seems possible! No preview image for this, does any other online archive have it?
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Seems possible! No preview image for this, does any other online archive have it?
And but here!--if she hasn’t taken money from you, then she hasn’t gone through the standard time-honoured operation of raising her skirts and jamming your bills down into her woman’s First National Bank, where she couldn’t be strong-armed out of it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And but here!--if she hasn’t taken money from you, then she hasn’t gone through the standard time-honoured operation of raising her skirts and jamming your bills down into her woman’s First National Bank, where she couldn’t be strong-armed out of it.
[Publicity for THE FLY (1958), supposedly found by David J. Schow in the Motion Picture Herald. Can this be real?]
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
[Publicity for THE FLY (1958), supposedly found by David J. Schow in the Motion Picture Herald. Can this be real?]
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I've spent the last three hours doing nothing but reading and it's been amazing. Just wonderful. Highly recommend.
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I've spent the last three hours doing nothing but reading and it's been amazing. Just wonderful. Highly recommend.
[Solar eclipse seen from Romania, 1999. Photographed by Wendy Carlos, 86 years old today.]
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
[Solar eclipse seen from Romania, 1999. Photographed by Wendy Carlos, 86 years old today.]
[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
[Happy 86th birthday to solar eclipse photographer and composer Wendy Carlos, known for "Switched-On Bach," A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE SHINING, TRON, and “Peter and the Wolf” with Weird Al Yankovic. Listen to “Switched-On Bach” below.]
archive.org/details/wend...
archive.org/details/wend...
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today's nearly random theater photo:
birthday girl Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett in Peter Pan (c. 1951)
birthday girl Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett in Peter Pan (c. 1951)
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
today's nearly random theater photo:
birthday girl Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett in Peter Pan (c. 1951)
birthday girl Veronica Lake and Lawrence Tibbett in Peter Pan (c. 1951)
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RIP Jeff Hannusch, who spent the 1980s talking to musicians in New Orleans who'd changed the world in the 1940s-60s, and left us books that are still essential to understanding their stories.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
RIP Jeff Hannusch, who spent the 1980s talking to musicians in New Orleans who'd changed the world in the 1940s-60s, and left us books that are still essential to understanding their stories.
[The neighbor brought home this creature, which he found on the 10 freeway, then his kids started sneezing, so he crossed the street and offered the creature to us. Now what?]
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
[The neighbor brought home this creature, which he found on the 10 freeway, then his kids started sneezing, so he crossed the street and offered the creature to us. Now what?]
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Some may remember me posting about the obscure, short-lived (Nov. 1931 - Apr. 1933) LOVE MIRROR a couple months ago—welp, I've now written a whole post about it!
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Love Mirror: The feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted.
Mixing it up with a post less about a specific story and more about a magazine at large (you may notice that my little-used “Author Spotlight” category has now turned into “Author/Magazine Spotligh…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some may remember me posting about the obscure, short-lived (Nov. 1931 - Apr. 1933) LOVE MIRROR a couple months ago—welp, I've now written a whole post about it!
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
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Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 13,1946
November 13,1946
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 13,1946
November 13,1946
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1946
November 12,1946
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1946
November 12,1946
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I've been working on the Mesopotamian rpg for a year and a half or so, and I've only today finally found an appropriate place in which to quote Inana/Ištar being her absolute baddest self:
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've been working on the Mesopotamian rpg for a year and a half or so, and I've only today finally found an appropriate place in which to quote Inana/Ištar being her absolute baddest self:
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But I do not quarrel with fate. It is not a contest in which we should emerge victorious
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
But I do not quarrel with fate. It is not a contest in which we should emerge victorious
[Happy 82nd birthday to Valerie Leon, known for Hammer, Carry On, and James Bond films. Here is Valerie walking a black cat to promote BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1971).]
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
[Happy 82nd birthday to Valerie Leon, known for Hammer, Carry On, and James Bond films. Here is Valerie walking a black cat to promote BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1971).]
[The great Bahamian-American comedian Bert Williams was BOTD in 1874. In 1913, he filmed a feature length comedy, LIME KILN FIELD DAY, which was never completed or released, but, miraculously, survived and can be finally be seen.]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
[The great Bahamian-American comedian Bert Williams was BOTD in 1874. In 1913, he filmed a feature length comedy, LIME KILN FIELD DAY, which was never completed or released, but, miraculously, survived and can be finally be seen.]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...