MUSEE MECANIQUE - Pictures taken at the Musée Mécanique at Fisherman’s Wharf
in San Francisco. Enjoy!
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Sunday, August 23, 2015
NOSFERATU
NOSFERATU - The iconic 1922 silent film is the stuff of
nightmares, so realistic the lead actor was rumored to have been an actual
vampire, in the tribute film entitled ‘Shadow of the Vampire’. ‘Nosferatu’ was an unauthorized adaptation of ‘Dracula’,
it’s studio Prana Films was immediately embroiled in lawsuits, brought by heirs
to the Bram Stoker estate. It made it’s one and only film then went bankrupt to
avoid copyright infringement. Courts at the time ruled that the film be
destroyed, however a few prints were salvaged and the film came to be lauded,
as a triumph of horror cinema. The film’s use of angles, light and shadow--along
with locations in Germany and Slovakia, shot by single camera--was probably
intended to be color tinted, which didn’t happen. There is a rumored remake in
the works, by Robert Eggers, director of ‘The Witch’.


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Dracula by Bram Stoker Free PDF
Dracula by Bram Stoker Free PDF
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015
THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS SHORT STORY REVIEW
THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS - The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King appeared in Gallery magazine and his anthology Night Shift. In New York City an unnamed man stops at a flower vendor, mentions a woman's body, a hammer murderer, so he buys roses for ‘Norma’ and leaves. Walking down the sidewalk he turns into an alley saying to a random woman: "I've bought some flowers for you, Norma." When she screams he kills her. After an unspecified amount of time, he walks away. He feels optimistic, sure that he will find Norma someday. Stephen King is one of the best known and most prolific horror writers. His works have been appeared in novels, short stories, collections, movies and TV. Since his first book ‘Carrie’ in 1974 he is still going strong in 2015 with ‘Finders Keepers’ and countless projects in-between.
Follow these links to related posts on this topic.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
LESBIAN PULPS
LESBIAN
PULPS - A series dedicated to pulps, see
links below and follow them to those pages. Lesbian theme paperback/ pulp books
were mostly written by straight men for themselves. These pulps (written by
males) tended to have darker or more titillating undertones. Paperbacks with
sympathetic themes were usually written by women. Radclyffe Hall and
Tereska Torres are often credited with launching the golden age of publishing the
lesbian pulp; with Women's Barracks in 1950 and The Well of Loneliness reprint in
1951. However it emerged as a new market for women writers, some of them
lesbian, who might have never been published otherwise. Fifteen actual lesbians
wrote almost a hundred of these pulps, from 1950-1965, reflecting realistic lifestyles.
Many pulps written by men had probably never even known a lesbian. Imagining them
as wannabe males or sexually confused, easily remedied by the right man. Interestingly,
writer Lawrence Block--writing as Jill Emerson and Sheldon Lord--went on to pen
award winning mysteries (A Walk Among the Tombstones). This post has attempted
to show both sides of the coin: sympathetic realism and sensationalistic perversion.
Related posts on this topic:
Flying Lesbian by Del Britt
Women's Barracks by Tereska Torres
Queer Patterns by Lilyan Brock
Women Confidential by Lee Mortimer
Three Women by March Hastings
The Other Side of Desire by Paula Christian
The Unnatural Wife by Jay Carr
69 Barrow Street by Sheldon Lord
Getting Off by
Jill Emerson
Enough of Sorrow by Jill Emerson
Lesbian Web
of Evil by Harry Gregory
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallSunday, August 9, 2015
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