[Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) at the Public Domain Review.] publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

[RIP blues singer and guitarist John P. Hammond, 83, who composed the soundtrack to LITTLE BIG MAN (1970).] archive.org/details/jhj_...

[Earliest known duckrabbit, "Kaninchen und Ente," from an 1892 issue of "Fliegende Blätter," used by Wittgenstein as a means of describing two different ways of seeing: "seeing that" versus "seeing as."]

This 1959 picture of my mom is from her Harlem modeling days. As a kid I used to see this photo on mom's dresser and it became one of my visual aids when writing the short "Frankie Five Hundred" for @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/frankie...

a great writer in a despised medium. better than any of his "literary" contemporaries.

He put the G in gloom.

[Pulp writer David Loeb Goodis was BOTD in 1917. Films of his novels include DARK PASSAGE (Daves, 1947), THE BURGLAR (Wendkos, 1956), NIGHTFALL (Tourneur, 1957), SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Truffaut, 1960), THE MOON IN THE GUTTER (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1983), and STREET OF NO RETURN (Sam Fuller, 1989)!]

I’m so excited to see Ramble House on the socials. They have been the source of some of the most unhinged books I’ve ever read, starting with the brain-melting oeuvre of Harry Stephen Keeler and just getting stranger. I don’t know what’s up with this “forbidden inverted” edition of TKIY but I’m in.

This whole thread is a delight. Mouton is my hero. 😺

What if two mystery writers, one who wrote pulp paperbacks and one who wrote literary fiction, fell in love for two years but ended up hating each other so much they killed each other off as characters? Patricia Highsmith + Marijane Meaker (aka Vin Packer) = my favorite toxic lesbians of all time 🖤

[Humbaba, Guardian of the Cedar Grove, up on a cabinet.]

[Three Black Cats, by Carl Kahler]

The girl, with a rueful backward look at Tommy’s evident at-homeness with a strange card index, went back downstairs to her work.

[Coming Soon]

[Happy 95th birthday to Romanian filmmaker Elisabeta Bostan! She directed 26 films between 1956 and 2018, and is especially known for children's musical fantasies, such as ROCK 'N ROLL WOLF (1976) and VERONICA (1973).] www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zr...

["A Veiled Gazelle: Intimations of the Infinite and the Eternal" A new Viewmaster set from the Museum of Jurassic Technology.] www.mjtgiftshop.org/collections/...

[The sketchbook of a Victorian girl, Emily M. Madden, featuring the adventures of her cat, Mouton.] wellcomecollection.org/works/rzwecsjy

Ridiculous collection of headless trick photography from 1850-1950 at auction auction.potterauctions.com/online-aucti...

"But--der pook. Vot natur­lich, eggzisting as he does in but dwo gopies, voot in guineas be qvoted--sure!--not shillings. Nor--but der pook. Veil, he iss brinted in green baper bei, und heez name iss--‘Der Vay Oud-d-d-d-d-d.’”

“‘The Way Oud-d-d-d-d-d-d?’” replied Solomon Silverspectacles reflectively, though unblinkingly, rolling out his own last word by at least one more rumble!

Now me, I say it’s a problem--one that would put a few crinkles into even Confucius’ cerebellum if he had it--and so far as T. Skirmont, Esquire, goes, he has about one in a million chances to solve it.

their car was awesome tinyurl.com/4s8na742

Beano #1191, May 15, 1965

[Happy 89th birthday to the Woolly Bully himself, Domingo Samudio, of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs! Here's "The Wookie, Part I," from 1977.] www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RtZ...

Old moth, with the yellow bag on your bean, did you think for a minute that I didn’t know your paunch? You dirty dog, do you think I’m not next to your game?

[So this may be Tatjana's elephant in Two-Fisted Tales #41.]

The only known footage of Margaret Murray (1863 - 1963), the archaeologist and folklorist who penned The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921).

Listening now 🎶 🐈‍⬛

[Frida Sarsen-Bucky wrote albums for Marian Anderson's little black cat, Snoopy, and for FDR's Scottish terrier, Fala. Here she is hangin' out with Albert Einstein and friends.] archive.org/details/78_f...

When news is bad I always take comfort from this

["One other thing, everyone in the village seems to live on a farm with 99 quadrillion ducks which are always quacking in the background. This means no matter what is happening, there is almost always a bunch of quacking and possibly a herd of ducks running around behind the action."]

[A gift for people who have everything: the inverted King in Yellow, with stories in reverse order.]

"For once we toss our dead and defunct truck driver in same--our Mr. Clown too, in case he proves to be inside that truck--both’ll be nothing but a pile of flesh-stripped bones in 3 hours. Bones that are, for all anybody can legally tell--if they ever do get dredged up--”

The handless man gave a throaty, satisfied, grunty laugh.

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

[Johnny Cash, BOTD in 1932 to read you the New Testament.] archive.org/details/john...

[Happy 97th birthday to cartoonist Arnold Roth, creator of Dave Brubeck album covers and a contributor to Trump, Humbug, Help, Playboy, The New Yorker, and Punch. Be a girl cartoonist, for Arnold.]

[Still the best title for a comic book. Tasmanian Devil and his Tasty Friends #1, February 1963.]

Shout out to throngs. Don't just run around with a group and whatnot. Make sure that shit is a throng.

[Musidora was born February 23, 1889. Best remembered as Irma Vep in LES VAMPYRES (1915), she directed VICENTA (1920), LA TIERRA DE LOS TOROS (1924), and, from a novel by her best friend Colette, LA VAGABONDA (1918). 20 minutes of VICENTA have been recovered!] www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...

‘What fresh lunacy is this, a crocodile?’

I loved visiting that place. Doing the scavenger hunt was fun.

probably ken russell's best movie

Happy 97th to the great James Hong.

"muffy, don't do it. muffy, no. DON'T." *crash* *sigh*

Went to his one-man show about his life a few years back. Enjoyed it. Met him slightly when he showed up at a Cartoon Arts Professional Society meeting, oddly. His wife created My So-Called Life and wrote the book for Wicked. I suspect together they're motocross-racing spies.

Happy Kenneth Williams centenary (today!)!

I sometimes find myself screaming at my 1 cat, Joey! He gets on occasional jags of wanting to chew some of the ‘yarn’ in my wall-to-wall carpet! 😡. It’s annoying & destructive. He’s had struvite crystals before & that’s the LAST thing I want for him again! Good thing he’s cute! I love him SO much. 💞

“Pigskrit?” was all she said, and wonderingly. “Pig-skrit,” she repeated fascinatedly.

[Edward Gorey. “The Horror of Having a Birthday,” around 1948–1955.]