Category Archives: arts

Bobbin come home!

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 February 15 by Anton

What happened to Joycelyn Yik’s comic strip The New Adventures of Bobbin? The domain has been down for at least a few days, and I’ve never known that to happen before. Feb.20: She’s back! with a strip about about quirks … Continue reading →

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with crumbs on his face

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 February 15 by Anton

Recently I had occasion to sing a verse of “Rum, By Gum” and Jeff Riggenbach asked whether it came from The Lamplighters; I allowed as how that might well be the case. A spot of websearching now suggests the Mitchell … Continue reading →

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if one is good . .

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 February 15 by Anton

Was it in a dream that I heard the rumor of a collection of ABBA songs performed in the style of Gordon Lightfoot?

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does it mean anything?

Posted on Monday, 2005 January 17 by Anton

In Fractured Fairy Tales: The Three Little Piggs (1960 Oct 09), the wolf when first seen is reading Gay Boy magazine.

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at the pictures, 1960

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 January 12 by Anton

La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini). Plot-free. Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (dir. René Clément), the first film version of The Talented Mr Ripley, quite good. The French title means broad daylight; I saw nothing that would explain purple! À bout … Continue reading →

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Frank Kelly Freas

Posted on Sunday, 2005 January 02 by Anton

It is credibly reported that Frank Kelly Freas, eminent fantasy illustrator and a very pleasant fellow, died this morning. There will probably be a memorial next Sunday at the LASFS clubhouse. Later: No, it’s at something called the Church of … Continue reading →

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a rifled revolver

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 25 by Anton

In the first episode of Have Gun Will Travel (1957), Paladin points out that his custom-made revolver has a rifled barrel, “a rarity in a hand weapon.” Say what?!

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