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
[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.]
[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?]
[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.]
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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.]
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[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?]
[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.]
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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.]
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Id...
[Pop singer Jo Stafford, known for "You Belong to Me," BOTD in 1917, also recorded as hillbilly Cinderella G. Stump. Also, Jo and her husband won a Grammy pretending to be Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, an incompetent lounge act, known for "Stayin' Alive."]
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November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
[Pop singer Jo Stafford, known for "You Belong to Me," BOTD in 1917, also recorded as hillbilly Cinderella G. Stump. Also, Jo and her husband won a Grammy pretending to be Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, an incompetent lounge act, known for "Stayin' Alive."]
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archive.org/details/jona...
[Pop singer Jo Stafford, known for the "You Belong to Me," was BOTD in 1917. Jo and her husband, Paul Weston, also recorded as the dreadful lounge act Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. And, before that, Jo pretended to be tuneless hillbilly Cinderella G. Stump.]
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November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
[Pop singer Jo Stafford, known for the "You Belong to Me," was BOTD in 1917. Jo and her husband, Paul Weston, also recorded as the dreadful lounge act Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. And, before that, Jo pretended to be tuneless hillbilly Cinderella G. Stump.]
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[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.]
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
[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.]
[“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]
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
[“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]
[RIP Betty Harford, 98, who appeared on The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. Betty was the voice of Gumba, mother of Gumby.]
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
[RIP Betty Harford, 98, who appeared on The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. Betty was the voice of Gumba, mother of Gumby.]
[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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November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
[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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archive.org/details/Chic...
[Daffy Duck Becomes Danny Kaye, becomes Eyeball. BOOK REVUE, 1946.]
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
[Daffy Duck Becomes Danny Kaye, becomes Eyeball. BOOK REVUE, 1946.]
[Alex in the sink.]
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
[Alex in the sink.]
[Paper dolls of Sweden’s beloved Pelle Svanslös.]
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
[Paper dolls of Sweden’s beloved Pelle Svanslös.]
[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)!]
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[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)!]
[Cover, Noble Head Funnies #4, featuring Mr. Kitty Fluff, the world’s most noble cat.]
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
[Cover, Noble Head Funnies #4, featuring Mr. Kitty Fluff, the world’s most noble cat.]
[Mr. Kitty Fluff cartoons. Only in “Noble Head Funnies.”]
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
[Mr. Kitty Fluff cartoons. Only in “Noble Head Funnies.”]
[The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one! --Robert Musil, b. November 6, 1880]
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
[The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one! --Robert Musil, b. November 6, 1880]
[Cartoonist and animator Tezuka Osamu was BOTD in 1928.]
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
[Cartoonist and animator Tezuka Osamu was BOTD in 1928.]
[Harry Stephen Keeler was born on this day 135 years ago.]
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
[Harry Stephen Keeler was born on this day 135 years ago.]
[Singer, songwriter, pianist, and bandleader Tommy Ridgley was born in New Orleans 100 years ago today. "Jam Up" is a great, raucous near-hit recorded in 1954.]
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October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
[Singer, songwriter, pianist, and bandleader Tommy Ridgley was born in New Orleans 100 years ago today. "Jam Up" is a great, raucous near-hit recorded in 1954.]
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