Four years ago or thereabouts, we considered in this space the postcards featuring round people, a race of jolly cartoon characters whose figures paid homage to the globe. A goodly number of postcards with suchlike folk on them have come into my inventory and, looking them over, I noticed something I don’t believe IContinue reading “The Big Round Dude”
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SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 7
Looking back now on the six surviving silent movie versions of A Christmas Carol (there are at least three lost versions), while remembering that two of the six are fragments AND that we are seeing them on a small screen, what did we see? SETTINGS: The 1913 version does the most with exterior scenes.Continue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 7”
FICTION FRIDAY: Midnight Quandary
On the last day of the year, there was a terrible argument in King Sinson’s War Room. He wanted to bring a couple of his allies from the haunted forest to help in the battle planned for the next day against the nether-elves who had been plotting against the kingdom from their lairs beneathContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Midnight Quandary”
Resolving Things
The time approaches once again for making New Year’s Resolutions, that combination of confessional and strategy which will make the impending 365 days a successful quest for happiness and joy (at LEAST until January 3.) As usual, your Uncle Blogsy, being so full of wisdom that he finds it hard to lift his headContinue reading “Resolving Things”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6
There is occasional confusion online between the 1922 “Scrooge” and the 1923 “A Christmas Carol”. Each was made in England, and each was part of a longer series of films based on literature. The Gems of Literature series ranged farther afield in its sources, including Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. If you go huntingContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6”
FICTION FRIDAY: The Christmas Clown
Beth swept snow from the top of the last box and threw herself onto a chair. She was immediately sorry she’d done this: her soaking wet gloves and sodden stocking cap were right under her. It didn’t really matter. The last of the snow was disappearing into her coat, turned into ice water toContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: The Christmas Clown”
SANTA BLOGS XLV
Dear Santa Boggle: I am writing this to let you know I have given up on you completely. Every year I ask for your help in getting my relatives to stop giving me mainstream girly clothes and books and stuff at Christmas. I have written to you in the past (AND let the familyContinue reading “SANTA BLOGS XLV”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 5
The 1922 version of A Christmas Carol, starring H.V. Esmond, is incomplete as we know it. Part of a series which presented excerpts from great literature (the four known films are all from Dickens) it ran seventeen minutes or thereabouts, but when it was brought to America in 1929, the distributors cut it downContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 5”
SANTA BLOGS XLIV
Dear Santa Blogs: I have a niece who sends me entertaining emails and who really deserves to get a present this year in exchange for all the gloomy Goth humor she sends my way. But I’ve never shopped for a Goth before and, anyway, I don’t have any idea what kids want for ChristmasContinue reading “SANTA BLOGS XLIV”
SANTA BLOGS XLIII
Dear Santa Blogs: What are you doing this year to provide us with a really good Christmas cong controversy? I rely on this every year as a chaser for all the good will and cheer being tossed at me, and so far, I haven’t heard a peep from you about it. Grumpy InContinue reading “SANTA BLOGS XLIII”
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