This reminds me of W.C. Fields' "Pharmacist" bit when a customer asked him, "Do you have Dildo-Dildok Dyspepsia Tablets for Dogs?"

Was he played by the ghost of Milton Seltzer? 💙📚📽️ #horror

Roy Krenkel cover for late '60s comics fanzine GUTS #5. This is the issue that featured the essay "Violence, the Phoney Issue" by none other than Steve Ditko. Don't remember for sure if I was in this one but I wrote letters to the editor in practically every issue after the first. #comicsky

One of cinema's most historic moments: The opening of THE EXIT FROM THE LUMIERE FACTORY (1895), the first film ever to be projected to a paying audience. "Only 33 out of 100 tickets are sold to the first ever demonstration of the Lumiere Cinematograph." The audience was "dumbstruck." #cinema

Another favorite Vidal quote.

“Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.” -Gore Vidal #BOTD Vidal and Fellini, Rome 1971

#BOTD GORE VIDAL 1925💙📚 A personal favorite moment from the 1968 ABC Presidential debates between Vidal and Wm F Buckley: "Now, Bill, don't you point that tongue at me, you put it back in your cheek where it belongs."

#BOTD GORE VIDAL 1925💙📚 In my opinion, his greatest book. "Remembering Orson Welles" is my favorite piece about my favorite filmmaker but every single essay is a pleasure to read and re-read.

#BOTD GORE VIDAL 1925💙📚 One of my prize possessions is a tape that came from the original 1968 ABC masters of the debates between Vidal and Buckley. Clips in the documentary about them were cut and cleaned-up. The unedited tapes are more fun. Vidal looks great, Buckley not so much.

GORE VIDAL #BOTD 1925 100 years ago, my favorite writer was born. A century later, I miss and feel the need for his insights more than ever. He predicted too much of what's happening and even tho he thought "the 4 sweetest in the English language are 'I told you so," I doubt he'd feel like it now.

Good movie, cool guys.

A couple more of my favorite translations. 💙📚

Just learned that it's International Translation Day. The last few years I've spent reading fiction in translation has been one of my main pleasures in life and I'm grateful to all the writers and translators I've found. LibraryThing's montage is a great one. Here are a couple of my favorites.💙📚

OSVOBOZHDENIE aka LIBERATION, a five part Russian film (1969-1970), with each episode a battle, ending with Berlin. Hitler's scenes are in B&W, complete with his last minutes. In this version, Hitler poisons Ava and is then too cowardly to shoot himself, even tho Russian history proved otherwise.📽️

"The Man of 1955." Koppy McFad, aka The Boy with the Most Comic Books in America," aka the immortal Supersnipe by the great George Marcoux, from the first issue of his Street & Smith comic from 1942. A wonderful, one-of-a-kind character that I love as much as John Stanley's Little Lulu. #comicsky

MACISTE IN HELL, the 1925 film that made little Federico Fellini want to make movies. 📽️

Jack Kirby creates some sound effects. (From the first three issues of OMAC.) #comicsky

Boris Dolgov. #horror💙📚

Ad in a 1941 issue of WEIRD TALES for new Arkham House releases. At the end is a reminder that they "still have left a few copies of H. P. Lovecraft's giant omnibus, THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS, at $5.00 the copy." Ad headline below for comparison purposes only. #horror💙📚

Wallace Wood. #comicsky

I grew up in Iowa and I still remember seeing pictures in the paper of a baseball game played by members of the visiting New York Philharmonic at Iowa State University. It was 1969 and the most striking picture was of their young conductor at bat. So happy 90th b'day, Maestro Ozawa!

SUPPORTING ACTOR SUNDAY #supportingactorsunday BORIS KARLOFF For 12 years before FRANKENSTEIN, Karloff was in the supporting cast of dozens of films, silent and sound. Sometimes, like his 30 seconds as a drunken sailor in Raoul Walsh's THE YELLOW TICKET (1931), he got no billing at all. 📽️ #filmsky

Richard Sala. #comicsky

Debussy and Ravel were the two composers I found on my own as a teenager that I loved immediately. Happy 163rd b'day, indeed, and I know what I'll be listening to tonight.

The new MR. ED reboot is going to be a drama.📽️ #filmsky

I still love the covers of the '60s Ace ERB Mars books I grew up with, but the early editions were in a class by themselves.💙📚

Felt like re-reading Wells' THE INVISIBLE MAN and realized that I'd given away all my copies. The covers of new editions don't even try: the $6 Signet I bought has the title serving as his head! Admittedly, drawing an invisible man's a challenge but these artists met it. 💙📚 #currentlyreading #horror

The covers of the paperback editions of Night Shade's William Hope Hodgson series are made of details from the interior illustrations in the books, and the design is just kind of ugly (and not in a good way). Here are some really good covers from past editions. 💙📚 #currentlyreading #horror

This is Al Pacino ("Paccino" in the credits) in his first-ever appearance on film.📽️ #filmsky

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 20/20 - INVASION OF THE SEA by Jules Verne, translated by Edward Baxter

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 19/20 - SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: FOUR DECADES OF FRIENDSHIP WITH GORE VIDAL by Michael Mewshaw

What would it look like if Disney made an animated remake of HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER?🎥 #comicsky

Nice poster for a 1934 Dutch film about a dam closing off the Zuiderzee from the sea, effectively turning it into what the fishermen call "dead water." They desperately attack the dam, culminating in tragedy. Score conducted by Willem Mengelberg. No good prints or English subs for the one we have.🎥

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 18/20 - LAZARUS by Henri Beraud

#BOTD Aldous Huxley. Once in an interview, Huxley said that if a drug were invented that "caused happiness," the possessor of it could enslave the world. The interviewer asked, "How would they get the people to take it?" and Huxley's answer was "Make it available." 💙📚

Didn't he notice that the pavement was made of good intentions?

Metin Erksan's 1968 THE WELL is a Turkish classic the rest of the world hasn't seen. A man obsessed with a village girl keeps kidnapping her to force her to marry him and she always refuses. Very little dialogue, haunting music, superb direction & acting. No good prints at all, Criterion, let's go!🎥

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 17/20 - 'TWIXT DOG AND WOLF by C.F. Kearny

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 16/20 - THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD by Amos Tutuola

T.E.D. Klein's perfect description of Arthur Machen's "The White People": "It’s a story that, unlike most, seems to have been written from within the world of the supernatural rather than from outside it."💙📚 #horror #currentlyreading

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 15/20 - PEDRO PARAMO by Juan Rulfo, translated by Douglas J. Weatherford

Front cover by Lee Brown Coye (1977)💙📚 #horror

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 14/20 - THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM by Gaston Leroux

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 13/20 - THE UNRULY BRIDAL BED AND OTHER GROTESQUES by Mynona, translated by W. C. Bamberger

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 12/20 - RASHOMON AND SEVENTEEN OTHER STORIES by Ryünosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin

No English subs exist for any video of I, JUSTICE, the 1967 Czech film about a doctor who's kidnapped by a secret group to keep Hitler alive. The group, former high-ranking Nazis, faked his suicide but blame him for their defeat. To punish him, they make him think the war is still being lost.🎥

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. #20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 11/20 - THE OTHER PASSENGER by John Keir Cross