Comic Strip Review: Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little It is the 1990s, before the digital photography explosion. Bee works in a one-hour photo shop as a finishing technician. She enjoys her job, not least because she takes copies of the more…interesting pictures shot by the customers home for her own collection. One day, Bee notices… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Shutterbug Follies
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Book Review: Insurrections of the Mind
Book Review: Insurrections of the Mind edited by Franklin Foer Disclaimer: I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. The copy I read was an uncorrected proof, and changes will be made in the final edition. (Specifically, a second introduction by Leon Wieseltier–an index may also be forthcoming.)… Continue reading Book Review: Insurrections of the Mind
Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen
Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen (1943) A troop train carrying soldiers to a base near New York City has typical troopers California, Dakota, Jersey and Tex on board. Only Jersey has a steady girl, and he’s hoping they have some time before being shipped overseas to see her. California’s never even kissed a girl,… Continue reading Movie Review: Stage Door Canteen
TV Review: Checkmate | Colonel March of Scotland Yard | I’m the Law
TV Review: Checkmate | Colonel March of Scotland Yard | I’m the Law Time for more old-time TV! Checkmate was a 1960-62 series about a detective agency of the same name based in San Francisco. Don Corey (Anthony George ) and Jed Sills (Doug McClure) out of Corey’s plush apartment, and employ Dr. Carl Hyatt… Continue reading TV Review: Checkmate | Colonel March of Scotland Yard | I’m the Law
Book Review: A Curious Man
Book Review: A Curious Man by Neal Thompson Disclaimer: I received this volume free from the Blogging for Books program, on the premise that I would write a review. This is a biography of Robert Ripley (nee LeRoy Robert Ripley), the cartoonist who created the Believe It or Not! feature. I was fascinated by the paperback… Continue reading Book Review: A Curious Man
TV Review: Martin Kane, Private Eye
TV Review: Martin Kane, Private Eye Martin Kane was a fairly standard private eye appearing on radio and television 1949-1951. He was played by four actors on TV, William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy and Mark Stevens, each with their own characterization, from mellow cynicism to outright rudeness. The most notable thing about the program… Continue reading TV Review: Martin Kane, Private Eye
Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends
Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends by Various Back in the 1970s, there was a Saturday morning cartoon titled Superfriends. It featured several superheroes from DC Comics,, plus “Junior Super Friends” Wendy and Marvin, trainee superheroes with their pet Wonderdog. Each episode taught valuable life lessons to kids across America. While reruns of the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends
Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue
Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue edited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow Conjunctions is a literary journal published twice a year by Bard College. Each issue contains essays, short fiction, poetry and less classifiable writing on a given subject, with this issue being about death. Literary journals tend to have a connotation of… Continue reading Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue
Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents the Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights
Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents the Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights by too many to list. Trust me, a lot of great names. Between the late 1940s and somewhere in the 1990s, one of the most pervasive fears of the American public was atomic war. For the first time in known history, humans were… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents the Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights
TV Review: Miami Undercover | Richard Diamond, Private Eye
TV Review: Miami Undercover | Richard Diamond, Private Eye Miami Undercover was a 1961 series shot in Miami Beach, with Lee Bowman as private investigator Jeff Thompson and Rocky Graziano as “Rocky.” Mr. Thompson was employed by the hotel owners to perform undercover investigations to avoid alarming guests with the presence of an overt hotel… Continue reading TV Review: Miami Undercover | Richard Diamond, Private Eye