#Carolyn Raship

[travsd]

Happy Birthday, Carolyn

This is my beautiful wife during our recent trip to the Laurie Beechman which I wrote about yesterday. She hates having her picture taken so I always have to sneak candids like this one, but she caught me this time, hence her subtle performative glower here, perceptible about the eyes and mouth. Normally, I hoard the photos I take of her for my own consumption (she complains when I share them)…

[ung]

carolyn raship is in her room (@caviglia_jr)

@rianjohnson I dvr and fast forward through them because it’s literally unbearable.

faved by your 1 friend

[travsd]

Two Items of Exciting News!

Two items of big news from the sovereign nation of Travyland to report on, manifested in an amazing day yesterday! Thanks to a referral by an academic friend, I found myself shuttled up to Cornwall-on-Hudson yesterday to be interviewed for Josh Greenbaum’s upcoming documentary Playing POTUS. I was already a fan of his films Too Funny to Fail: The Life and Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017) and…

[travsd]

The Duchess Does "Daughters of Darkness" (1971)

The Duchess, whom I’ve sometimes referred to as a Countess or a Marchioness (I’m unclear as to her exact rank, but she’s definitely a decadent aristocrat of some sort) was the guest on the Scare U podcast this week, brainchild of Messers Bradord Louryk and Eric Winick. Their topic: the stylish and erotic 1971 vampire film Daughters of Darkness starring Delphine Seyrig as a fictionalized version…

[travsd]

Two Weeks 'til Bathing Beauties!

Drawing by Carolyn Raship Wednesday, August 7 at 9pm at Coney Island USA: Trav S.D. (American Vaudeville Theatre) and a High Kicking Chorus of Cuties recreate burlesque as it was in Coney Island’s early 20th century glory days, and a salute to Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties. Water Nymphs, Wisecracks, and Whatever Floats Yer Boat – Featuring… Your host: Trav S.D. The Bathing Beauties: Helen…

[travsd]

Get the Goods on a 100 Year Old Hollywood Murder

Get the Goods on a 100 Year Old Hollywood Murder

On our first date my wife and I talked of many things: “of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and whether pigs have wings” doesn’t begin to cover it. And of the thousand things we discovered we had in common, among them was an abiding interest in the murder of silent era Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.  (We’re hardly unique — there’s a whole subculture of fanatics). This real true story…

[travsd]

Aida Overton Walker, Broadway, 1903 (Black Lives Matter) If I were to share every piece of art of my wife's that I loved on Travalanche, it would be…

[travsd]

Miss Marple: A Duality (Part 4 in Carolyn Raship's Agatha Christie Series)

Miss Marple: A Duality (Part 4 in Carolyn Raship’s Agatha Christie Series)

This is Part Four of Carolyn Raship’s Agatha Christie series launched here.

When people picture Agatha Christie in their heads, the most probable image is that of Angela Lansbury as she appeared in her role as Jessica Fletcher in the popular TV series Murder She Wrote:someone very much like the popular imagining of elderly village spinster, Miss Marple. Of course, this would be mostly incorrect…

[travsd]

One Hundred and One Sherlocks

One Hundred and One Sherlocks

Dr. John Wat- I mean, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Today’s guest post is by international super-sleuth Carolyn Raship. 

Today, on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s171st birthday we celebrate him and his essential creation, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is the ur-detective, the model from which all subsequent fictional detectives spring, whether it’s in homage or opposition. He’s not the first…

[travsd]

Postwar Poirot: Part 3 of Our Agatha Christie Series

Postwar Poirot: Part 3 of Our Agatha Christie Series

This is Part Three of Carolyn Raship’s Agatha Christie series launched here; and Part Two of the Poirot portion launched here. 

In the post war era the literary construct called Hercule Poirot becomes odder and odder. In the glamorous and cynical 1920s and ’30s with its craze for puzzle plots, the eccentric mustachioed Belgian fit in perfectly. In the wake of a traumatized Europe that embraced…

[travsd]

Pt. 5 in Our Agatha Christie Series: Tommy, Tuppence, and Other Adventurous Flappers

Pt. 5 in Our Agatha Christie Series: Tommy, Tuppence, and Other Adventurous Flappers

This is Part Five of Carolyn Raship’s Agatha Christie series launched here.

Almost everyone has heard of Agatha Christie’s characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple,as they’re constantly revived and riffed upon and parodied. They’ve become a part of our cultural currency. Because of their familiarity, many people will be surprised to hear Christie has a third set of series detectives whose…

[travsd]

Agatha Christie: Part One of a Multi-Part Series by Carolyn Raship

Agatha Christie: Part One of a Multi-Part Series by Carolyn Raship

When I first began dating my wife Carolyn Raship she was still blogging regularly here. It was one of the countless things we had in common. Since then, she’s focused like a laser beam on her visual art, and the world can be glad she has. But she remains a wonderful writer, and as energized on cultural topics (pop and otherwise) as I am. Indeed there are entire massive realms in pop culture where…

[travsd]

Dr. Crippen and the Music Hall Murder

Dr. Crippen and the Music Hall Murder

Like yesterday’s post on Elsa Schiaparelli and the upcoming series on Agatha Christie, this is a post that might have been better left in the hands of Carolyn Raship, the “lead investigator” as it were in our house when it comes to famous murders. But this time, I got selfish, and had to hog a good story all to myself. Also, I happen to be playing an evil quackat the moment — I’m in the right…

[travsd]

Adam Realman can do the impossible -- he got Carolyn Raship onstage !