Clownmania!

Sorry for the foobles intermissions, it's a package deal... and sorry.. I've been afraid of clowns since I can remember, except for Pipo

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Also in color with commentary and
for those of you who actually want to see this whole movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5WwammH90

los hermanos calatrava

Harry Stephen Keeler

HARRY STEPHEN KEELER (1890-1967) is one of the strangest writers who ever lived. In his time, he was pegged as a mystery novelist who also wrote some science fiction. Today, if you've heard of him at all, it's as the Ed Wood of mystery novelists, a writer reputed to be so bad he's good.



Some typical Keeler situations:
*A man is found strangled to death in the middle of a lawn, yet there are no footprints other than his own. Police suspect the "Flying Strangler-Baby," a killer midget who disguises himself as a baby and stalks victims by helicopter. (X. Jones of Scotland Yard, 1936)
*A disgruntled phone company employee calls every man in Minneapolis, telling him the morning papers will name him as the secret husband of convicted murderess Jemimah Cobb, who runs a whorehouse specializing in women with physical abnormalities. (The Man With the Magic Eardrums, 1939)

Yet another part of Keeler's charm is his unmitigatedly bad titles: Finger, Finger!, The Yellow Zuri, The Amazing Web, Find the Clock, and The Face of the Man From Saturn.

I have just finished reading The Case of the Crazy Corpse which features a mind-numbing plot involving a corpse discovered at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The body is unusual in that the bottom half is a Negro man and the top half is a Chinese woman who are joined together by some sort of greenish glue.

If that scenario floats your boat, check out these links:
Harry Stephen Keeler Home Page
HSK Society
RambleHouse

I Want Candy

Good Grief. My retina's are about to explode. A legend, a true star.

Candy Caramelo performed as a flamenco dancer at the "1965 World's Fair" in New York. She was billed as "The Latin from Manhattan" and followed in the same circuit as Lili St. Cyr. She starred in "The French Revue" at "Casa Loma" as part of the "1967 World's Fair" in Montreal. In Halifax she appeared at the "Lobster Trap" and in Toronto at the "Victory Burlesque Theatre". The following year, after the release of the popular movie, she adopted the name "Rosemary's Baby, the girl with the little devil in her". She also starred at the reopening of the "Mayfair", the biggest burlesque theatre in New York after a ban had been lifted on burlesque.

The World Is A Ghetto - Part XXIV