[Tars Tarkas tracks down and reviews Kilink Frankestayn ve Dr. No’ya Karsi, from the director of the Turkish Columbo movie, Alo Colombo: Çiglik (so that exists, or did, in this world).]
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A million stories are trembling to be crystallized on the black ribbon of the typewriter.
[Turkish Colombo, Alo Kolombo: Çığlık, not only exists, it's sitting right there on Youtube.]
The Public Domain Review.@ResObscura on the story of George Psalmanazar, the mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/made-in-taiwan-how-a-frenchman-fooled-18th-century-london
[Lenticular King Louie, Lenticular Astronaut. These were floating around the house when I was a kid.]
["I was so tired of all the weak women screaming in the corner while their boyfriends were beating off the aliens. I wouldn't have been--I'd've been in there swinging with something or kicking them as hard as I could." Ann McCaffrey was BOTD a century ago, to write a bunch of science fiction books with dragons.]
[Happy 92nd birthday to Don Hastings, who played the Video Ranger on Dumont's "Captain Video and his Video Rangers," 1949 to 1955, then spent half a century playing a doctor on "As the World Turns.” 1500 or so episodes of Captain Video are said to have been thrown in the East River in the 1970s; 24 survive at UCLA.]
[Pianist and singer Amos Milburn was BOTD 99 years ago to record "Chicken Shack Boogie," his first of 4 #1 R&B singles.]
Ain't No Amos Andy : Radio FREE Crockett : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Amos Milburn was one of the most influential R&B pianists and singers of the 1940s and 1950s. He recorded for Aladdin Records, a label that specialized in...
[Vibraphonist Red "Mr. Swing" Norvo was BOTD in 1908, to marry Mildred Bailey, appear in THE SCREAMING MIMI (1958), and compose "Dance of the Octopus."]
https://archive.org/details/JV-8527-1933-QmNdaeJ8TyNyMev3yu7fs3HoxLpZpCCeLBTsKxLqfjU7o7.mp3
