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DJ Morris Balloons In Bold

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EXPRESSING THE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY IN PHOTOGRAPHS

By DJ Morrow

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Soul Summit, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, 2024

GIF: Bruce Morrow

[thislovintime]

The Monkees with WIXY DJ’s, and Peter and Micky onstage in Cleveland on January 15, 1967. Photos by George Shuba. (Other photos of Mike and Micky by Shuba were also sold in an auction some time ago; you can view preview images here.)

“I think they’re four of the grooviest guys around and I know that before long they’ll be the biggest things on television. I was privileged to meet them and I want to tell everyone how nice they are. They gladly take time to talk to their fans and sign autographs. They seem to genuinely appreciate their fans — something that a lot of groups don’t do.” -Lisa G., KRLA Beat, October 22, 1966

“The legendary Jane Scott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was there at Public Auditorium to document the mayhem, which included fainting girls, police protecting the stage, and the ejection of disc jockeys! WIXY 1260 sponsored the show and was emceed by the WIXY Supermen Al Gates, Dick ‘The Wilde Childe’ Kemp, Larry Morrow, Bobby Magic, and Jerry Brooke. WIXY 1260 just celebrated their first year on the air, and they were already taking the town by storm. A few months earlier, WIXY brought the Beatles to town as they played Cleveland Municipal Stadium, stealing the thunder from rival WHK, who first brought The Beatles to Cleveland in 1964. WHK tried to fight back as three of the WHK Good Guys snuck in backstage, perhaps an attempt to one-up WIXY and get the Monkees to record some liners or perhaps do a quick interview. They didn't make it that far because they were quickly tossed out of Public Auditorium. However, someone other than the WIXY Supermen did get to interview the Monkees before the show. Maureen McCloskey of Lakewood and Cathy Aranyos of Cleveland Heights (both 13 years old) won a contest on WIXY to meet and interview The Monkees in their ninth-floor suite at the Hotel Sheraton-Cleveland.” - basementradioshow dot com, May 27, 2021

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The Charm of Northern Exposure, Summed Up in 10 Episodes

Plucking out individual best episodes of Northern Exposure is like ranking individual cups pulled from the same expertly spiked punch. It’s not impossible to do, it just feels not in the spirit of the gift you’ve been given or the eccentrically twinkling host who’s presented it to you.

Of course, Northern Exposure, the tale of petulant young New York Jewish doctor Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow) sent against his will to the beyond-tiny town of Cicely, Alaska as payment for his med school debts, has its odd sour draught or two during its six-seasons.

Quirk can turn twee with just a single wrong step. From the start, the series, created by St. Elsewhere vets Joshua Brand and John Falsey (with executive production help by future Sopranos don David Chase) presented unsuspecting CBS viewers with a much headier and more ambitious formula than its fish-out-of-water premise suggested. That degree of difficulty, which only increased in each of the series’s six seasons, meant taking big creative swings.

The town of Cicely was quickly established as a haven for eccentrics of all stripes, from frostbitten locals with colorful backwoods backstories to transplants in various stages of flight; from old lives too fraught or too comfortably suburban for their liking, to the region’s Native population, whose culture and individuality were allowed far more complexity than on any American TV show at the time.

Installed in a crumbling storefront office with a largely monosyllabic Native receptionist named Marilyn Whirlwind (stealth series MVP Elaine Miles), the constantly kvetching Joel immediately began sparring with Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner), the equally combative bush pilot (and Joel’s unimpressed landlord) in the sort of will-they/won’t-they relationship that, like Joel’s predicament, gradually receded in favor of fleshing out the series’s roster of singular figures.

Roaring over the town was Barry Corbin’s barrel-chested Maurice Minnifield, a former Oklahoma astronaut, millionaire, and bona fide American man’s man drawn to the untamed tundra as blank slate for his singular vision of an “Alaskan Riviera” hewn in his own stubborn image. Greeting the irascible Joel were everyone from a legendary sexagenarian animal trapper turned (mostly) pacifist barkeep, Holling Vincoeur (John Cullum) and his spacey but worldly 18-year-old former beauty pageant girlfriend Shelley (Cynthia Geary); aged and resolutely sensible town shopkeep, postmistress, and all-purpose town official Ruth-Anne (Peg Phillips); philosophizing ex-con turned all-day radio DJ Chris (John Corbett); and perpetually amiable half-Indian teen and aspiring filmmaker Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows).

As the series progressed, Joel’s predicament persisted (he’d essentially been dragooned into Cicely by Maurice over his expected post in an Anchorage hospital) but sank back into ensemble status, with each character in turn bobbing up to take the show’s delightfully unpredictable center stage. (Whether due to his diminished role or contract disputes, Morrow chafed in his first series lead, eventually leaving partway through the sixth and final season.)

New oddballs emerged to fill out Cicely’s ranks: Adam Arkin’s mysteriously obnoxious master chef/mountain man Adam and his heiress hypochondriac wife Eve (Valerie Mahaffey), Anthony Edward’s bubble-bound lawyer Mike Monroe, fled to Alaska ahead of encroaching environmental allergies, Graham Greene’s Native medicine man and artist Leonard, Richard Cummings’ Bernard, revealed as Chris’ long lost Black half brother, and sharing the pair’s preternatural psychic bond.

Throughout it all, Falsey and Brand steered Northern Exposure according to their own set of wide-open, anything goes constellations. Dream sequences, strange local traditions and superstitions (Maggie’s old lovers have all died in unusual circumstances), singular personal obsessions and quests — anything could happen in Cicely. And, with astounding reliability, the results were as warm, weird, and welcoming as the people of Cicely themselves.

With the series at long last available to stream (all six seasons are on Prime Video), we’ve put together a list of 10 favorite episodes drawn from Northern Exposure’s heady brew of comedy, drama, and enduring whimsy, in broadcast order. Drink up.

"Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People" (Season 1, Episode 8)

By the time this first season finale aired, it was already crystal clear that Cicely didn’t need any outside help in the strangeness department. That doesn’t stop a massive full moon and the appearance of the shimmering-with-portent northern lights from putting a double-whammy on the town’s inhabitants. Some can’t sleep, others are drawn on mysterious walkabouts, and a confused, citified accountant from Portland shows up on a brand new Harley and immediately latches onto Chris’ barroom talk of the collective unconscious, with the mismatched pair gradually realizing that they share the same absent father.Northern Exposure tosses a lot into each episode’s hearty stew, and this was one of the first episodes to find the perfect balance of soulfulness, incident, and knockabout comedy.

"The Big Kiss" (Season 2, Episode 2)

Darren E. Burrows (son of perennial B-movie bad guy Billy Drago) is Cicely’s most endearing figure as Ed Chigliak, a patiently unassuming and guileless presence whose clouded backstory as a half-Native, half-white foundling the would-be Scorsese accepts from his tribal elders with typical resignation. At least until a 256-year-old Native spirit guide named One Who Waits (legendary character actor Floyd Red Crow Westerman) appears to no one but him and tells Ed he might just have a bead on the identities of Ed’s parents.

It’s to Northern Exposure’s credit that we can accept the reality of the delightfully deadpan One Who Waits, or not. But Ed’s ultimately fruitless journey is as resonant either way, his rapport with the old ghost registering in Burrows’ performance with aching sincerity and sweetness. One Who Waits would return in Season 4, and Westerman is always a gift, but that episode’s more concrete conclusion to Ed’s story pales next to the lovely ambiguity of his roadside encounter with a friendly older Native man in “The Big Kiss.”

"War and Peace" (Season 2, Episode 6)

While Northern Exposure would stretch its woozy reality in all manner of ways throughout its run, it never did so as straightforwardly or delightfully than in this tale of a famed Russian singer Nikolai Ivanovich Appollanov (Elya Baskin) whose intermittent appearances in Cicely are greeted with delight by everyone — except the Cold War patriotic Maurice. Challenged to renew their one-sided chess rivalry, perennial loser Maurice accuses the gentlemanly Russian of cheating, leading to a duel where the series’s typical spell of whimsical benevolence seems headed for inevitable, bloody disaster. Meanwhile, Ed’s first love with a randy preacher’s daughter sees the heartstruck teen turning to ladies man Chris for some Cyrano-style flowery prose, with similarly doomed results.

That both stories turn out unexpectedly more or less okay is a relief, although Ed’s heartbroken confrontation with the contrite and more worldly Chris is about as emotionally rough as Ed gets. The series decided not to spoil things, a decision that was as cheeky as it was refreshingly necessary to a viewing public mired in coverage of another needless overseas war.

"A-Hunting We Will Go" (Season 3, Episode 8)

Northern Exposure’s ostensible lead was one the series’ least successful elements, oddly. Joel’s incessant complaining about his plight might have been understandable, but Morrow struggled with the show’s often inconsistent treatment of the New Yorker’s wavering integration into Cicely’s mix. (The number of times Joel’s episode-ending epiphanies plop him right back into crabapple first position for the next are too numerous to list.) Still, when the show gets the ultra-rational Joel right, it really gets him right, as in this outing where the city boy feels duty-bound to test out his visceral revulsion against the locals’ offhand love of hunting.

Joel goes on the offensive about the “barbaric” bloodsport, only to accept Maggie’s challenge that, without experiencing the phenomenon himself, he’s just blowing hot air. Joining veteran hunters Holling and Chris on a grouse hunt brings Joel unexpected (and long-winded) elation—and then a huge comedown when he comes across the wounded bird he’d only managed to wing. Themes permeate the best Northern Exposure episodes in the slyest of ways. As Joel desperately tries to heal his victim, Ed becomes similarly protective of Ruth-Anne upon learning of her recent 75th birthday. IN the end, both men resign themselves to death’s looming and necessary presence in their own way, with Joel confiding to Maggie how death and killing are two very different things and Ed’s surprise gift to Ruth-Anne seeing the two literally dancing on her grave.

"Burning Down the House" (Season 3, Episode 14)

Opposing forces meet more often than Cicely’s benign exterior suggests, with this third-season installment proving that a community packed with dreamers will occasionally spit out some darker fancies.

When Chris builds a catapult in order to “fling” a live cow in order to create what he terms a “perfect moment,” only Joel objects, the rest of Cicely regarding the stunt with idle curiosity. (After all, as Marilyn states, they’re going to eat the cow.) Throughout the series, this undercurrent of eccentricity edging into rustic anarchy runs through Cicely—it’s like they’re one rough winter away from stuffing Joel into a wicker man. Here, the unfortunate cow is only saved via an artistic quandary, not a moral one, as Ed accidentally reveals how the whole cow-flinging concept has been done in one particular movie. Chris adjusts to a less-lethal concept, with the resulting fling filling the assembled townsfolk (and viewers) with suitably collective awe.

“Three Amigos” (Season 3, Episode 16)

The bond between former astronaut and American hero Maurice Minnifield and legendary game hunter Holling Vincoeur gets the rough and tumble outdoor adventure tale it deserves in this episode where the two old friends and romantic rivals strike out into the wilderness to fulfill the last wish of an old friend. Pros Barry Corbin and John Cullum had career-best roles on Northern Exposure, and they’re never better than here, as the two aging tough guys brave impossible weather and their own aging bodies to bury wild Bill Haney, their longtime drinking, hunting, and brawling buddy at the legendarily treacherous No-Name Point.

Portrayed often as two distinct but similar examples of a dying breed of masculinity, both men ultimately have to concede that dying for your word might not be all it's cracked up to be, especially for two old men with warm beds and, in Holling’s case, Shelly to return to. Willie Nelson on the soundtrack singing “Hands on the Wheel” over scenes the boys’ game attempts to honor an old promise signals an elegiac farewell to an old way of life.

"Cicely" (Season 3, Episode 23)

With its season order expanded after two short first go-rounds, Season 3 gave Northern Exposure even more territory to explore stylistically. A flashback episode might not sound groundbreaking, but this tale of the founding of Cicely reframes everything we thought we knew about Alaska’s most eccentric town, all while lending unexpected insight into its denizens, all of whom pop up in different roles in the reminiscences of a 108-year-old man (veteran actor Roberts Blossom) who Joel accidentally hits with his pickup.

Brought to Joel’s cabin for treatment, the old man spins a yarn about the town’s eventual founders, a pair of lesbian free-thinkers named Jo and Cicely (Jo Anderson and Yvonne Suhor) who fled polite Montana society to create a matriarchal utopia right in the dangerously lawless heart of untamed Alaska. The story of the rough-and-tumble Jo and the delicate Cicely plays out with the tragic heroism of two such forward-thinking (gay, female) dreamers. The town is turned around and only a stray bullet (and some “kill your gays” TV tradition) prevents a completely happy ending. Still, as Joel drops the old man at the graveyard where he’s come to honor Cicely’s 100th birthday, Cicely, Alaska comes that much further into focus.

"Thanksgiving" (Season 4, Episode 8)

The Native population of Northern Exposure is an integral part of the show’s melting pot of oddballs, but this eventful episode adds a needed dose of spice surrounding the outwardly ordinary Indian citizens’ existence in a colonized America. Walking to work, Joel is ambushed with a tomato hurled by the friendly Ed, introducing the yearly tradition by which Cicely’s native population takes out centuries of otherwise sublimated anger and resentment in a symbolically messy assault on the town’s white people.

While the rest of Cicely’s white folks uncomplainingly accept this once a year pelting, Joel complains to Marilyn that his status as a perpetually oppressed Jew should exempt him from the Native’s wrath. It’s when he sinks into an even more miserable than usual depression upon being informed that his intended four-year sentence as Cicely’s general practitioner has been (thanks to inflation) upped another year that Marilyn finally recognizes Joel’s kinship with the town’s Natives.

Listening to the bereft and unshaven doctor’s fetal position lament about his complete and utter lack of hope, Marilyn tells Joel he can now march in the Native’s day of the dead parade. “You’re not white anymore,” coming from the no-bullshit Marilyn, lands with unexpected force on Joel, and us. The people of Cicely, in their insularity, are free to process generations of racial and personal trauma in their own unique manner, and as the whole town, Indian and white, gathers at The Brick for a sumptuous post-parade Thanksgiving feast, Joel is free to complain to the face-painted Ed about his own misfortune in strangely liberating kinship.

"Mister Sandman" (Season 5, Episode 12)

The northern lights are back and everyone’s having each other’s dreams. What sounds like a high-concept lark turns typically thought-provoking and stubbornly resonant, as Maggie jumps into Holling’s revelatory dreams about his horrible, abusive father, Joel sleepwalks into Ruth-Anne’s store with a little boy’s thwarted dreams about bottomless candy, and Maurice becomes incensed when one of a pair of gay B&B proprietors (Doug Ballard’s Ron) discovers Maurice’s secret dreams involving women’s shoes.

There’s plenty to unpack, as with most dreams, and there are laughs aplenty around the margins. But it’s in the townsfolk’s variously grudging willingness to accept that their unpredictable home has yet another metaphysical trick up its sleeve that “Mister Sandman” achieves surprising depth. Holling has long decried his French-Canadian lineage’s legacy of awful behavior, here evincing a revulsion to food tied both to Shelly’s pregnancy and his repressed memories of his mother and father. And Maurice, whose bluff, all-purpose bigotry is never quite offset by his old school macho act, gets into a truly ugly poker table confrontation with Ron and his partner Erick (Don R. McManus) stemming from what he considers these “deviants’” insight into his private thoughts.It’s up to the sage Ruth-Anne to have some frank talk with Maurice about his bigotry, and Joel to overcome his usual skepticism when he sees that Maggie’s recounting of her dream actually assists in treating the despondent Holling.

"The Quest" (Season 6, Episode 15)

Rob Morrow’s desire to leave Northern Exposure (he’d already filmed Robert Redford’s Quiz Show during Season 5) is given a typically strange payoff in his final season fantasy/dream/who-knows final outing. After Joel and Maggie’s on-and-off romance sputtered one too many times, the perpetually disgruntled Joel had left Cicely some episodes earlier, going AWOL on his debts and setting himself up as the GP of an even more upriver Native village. Unexpectedly arriving in the middle of the night at Maggie’s house, the shaggy and wild-eyed doctor unfurls an ancient trapper’s map, claiming to have uncovered the location of the mythical lost city of Kiwa’ani and asking for Maggie to fly him the first leg of his trip to find this magical “jeweled city.”

As far as goodbyes to disgruntled stars go, “The Quest” is a confoundingly thorny metaphysical flight of fancy. With the skeptical Maggie in tow, the obsessed Joel first encounters one of those elderly Japanese soldiers still fighting WWII (and is repaid for his ensuing medical treatment with a bounty of sushi), almost gets sidetracked in an impossible, dreamlike spa in the middle of the Alaskan nowhere, and finally coming across an incongruously locked chain-link bridge fence and the abusive gatekeeper (who looks suspiciously identical to Adam) demanding the answer to an impossible riddle. Joel answers and spies the glittering skyline of his beloved Manhattan in the mists—and he walks into it, and out of Northern Exposure forever.

Is the episode something of a make-the-best-of-it exercise? Maybe. But it’s a great one, perfectly in keeping with the series’ spirit. As Marilyn sense Joel’s departure with a signature, unreadable “Good bye” back in Cicely and Maggie receives a days-later postcard of the Staten Island ferry from Joel reading “New York is a state of mind,” “The Quest” stretches Northern Exposure’s woozy reality to its breaking point while still slotting comfortably—and touchingly — into the show’s world in as satisfying a way as could be hoped.

~ Dennis Perkins || Primetimer

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tagged by @rottingfamily <333 to post: an animal, place, plant, character, season, hobby, color, crystal & food that remind me of myself

bear / vintage radio dj booth / venus fly trap / rebel morrow / autumn / drawing / red / smoky quartz / sushi

tagging: @emiliosandozsequence and anyone else that wants to do it!!

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April 1974. Gray Morrow cover for one of the Red Circle horror books he edited during this period. The cover illustration references the story "Face of Love – Face of Death," by Marv Channing and Vicente Alcazar, about a late-night DJ whose sexy on-air voice attracts the wrong kind of fan. The climax is marred by over-wordiness; I think Channing was new to comics (my guess is he was someone Morrow knew) and hadn't yet learned to pare down his dialogue and captions to a digestible length.

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Learning to rediscover yourself, pick up the pieces of your life, and rebuild yourself as a survivor from trauma is not an easy task! It takes patience, perseverance, and courage however the beautiful soul that is revealed at the end of the journey will make it all worth while...

This intricate balloon sculpture art, created by DJ Morrow balloonsinbold.com, is named "W.I.P" and depicts a person on a journey of self discovery and growth.

Please read, enjoy, share, and comment to show your appreciation for this magnificent sculpture and the talented artist that brought it to life.

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all the valves out, something on impulse; a more engaging occupation

        The Wreck had never driven the like of it, although he was confident of his ability, as always. But Timothy had all the valves out, and with a prospect of idle weeks ahead of him, was puttering over the grinding job, in no hurry to complete it. ₁

      Later, he had a perfunctory session with one of the books; but he found that puttering around the cars was a more engaging occupation, because it gave him free rein to think. He had discovered that he could easily spend hours thinking about the Kilbourne family, himself, and the situation that had been created by his coming to Kilbourne Heights.       Rawlins was not habitually introspective, but there were angles of the matter that needed thinking about. He did not yet clearly see his way through to the end, nor did he discern any necessity for haste; but it was not in human nature — certainly not in his own — to put his mind in charge of a writer of books when there was something else that challenged it in a more personal and portentous way. ₂

      She stood in the doorway until he had driven out of sight. An odd feeling of serenity enveloped her. At last, right in the heart of the East, she had done something on impulse. Perhaps she had smashed the hoodoo. She felt her pulse and it seemed to her that it was certainly beating faster than sixty-five. Things were looking up; she did not know why, but she divined it.       Charley was puttering at something under the hood of the Carvel, and she called to him.       “Do you remember what you said you would do if you had my money, Charley?”       He thought for a few seconds.       “It was what I’d do if I had your money and what you know about cars, too,” he said, carefully.       “All right. What was it?”       I said I’d buy the place.”       “Well, I’ve taken your tip, Charley.”       “Ma’am?”       “I’ve bought it.” ₃

      “Yeah?” drawled Franz. “More psychology? Going to wish a win on him and then tell him it’s you done it?”       “I’m going to hold up that baby when he comes puttering around here to-morrow and tell him we can make him win if he wants to, if I have to tie him to a string piece and set on him to make him listen.”       Sandy did not have to do that. Luck was with him. He found the millionaire Burton just after he had discharged every man who was working on the boat he hoped would win his race.       It was Sandy’s psychological moment. ₄  

sources, all E. J. Rath

1 The Nervous Wreck by E. J. Rath, author of Too Much Efficiency, Etc. / “Illustrated with scenes from the play” (Grosset & Dunlap; copyright G. Howard Watt, 1923) : 194 : link same (via hathitrust) : link (both University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but better reproduction of photos in hathitrust version) 2 The Dark Chapter : A Comedy of Class Distinctions by E. J. Rath, author of The Nervous Wreck, Etc. / (1921, 1922; Copywright G. Howard Watt, 1924) : 93 : link same (via hathitrust) : link (both Ohio State University copy (3rd edn); hathitrust shows title page) from front dj flap :       Kilbourne Height was a paradise for tramps. The generous wife of its rich owner had on frequent occasions manifested a fine sympathy for the gentry of restless feet.       Wade Rawlings heard of this good Samaritan. Presto. He appears at the door of the sactuary to all intents and purposes “down and out.”       This is the Dark Chapter in the life of the leading character who straighway began a most hilarious existence as an adjunct in that most extraordinary family in the rare atmosphere of the Heiths. The warp and woof of his intricate entanglements, his social conquests and numerous other dark chapters of which he became a part, serve to bring about a grand finale which threatens to collapse and detroy forever the masquerading Rawlin’s partnership with a certain bewildered Marian, and his alliance with the beautiful “Queen of Sheba.”       No more riotously scintillating comedy has thus far appeared from the pen of E. J. Rath. It is a twin triumph with “The Nervous Wreck.” 3 Gas---Drive in : A High-powered Comedy-romance that Hits on every cylinder, by E. J. Rath, author of The Nervous Wreck, The Dark Chapter, etc. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921; copyright G. Howard Watt, 1925) : link same (Ohio State University copy) via hathitrust : link from front dj flap :       Vivian Norwood loves her automobile. And yet when the car is stolen in the first chapter of this amazing romance-comedy, it isn’t the car that she mourns so much, it’s the loss of a letter marked Personal and Confidental that she had left in a secret pocket.       Vivian discovers some information that puts her on the trail of the thieves. And then she buys and begins to operate a garage in the vicinity where the repainted racing car is being run by its mysterious possessor. Regaining that letter becomes the most important thing in Vivian’s life. She meets Richard Hunter, the car’s present master. And she discovers to her horror that she has lost the key to the secret compartment. Where is it? 4 Let’s Go, by E. J. Rath, author of The Nervous Wreck, Etc. (Copyright by G. Howard Watt, 1930) : 22 : link (Ohio State University copy, via hathitrust)  

discussion

E.J. Rath is the pseudonym of Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd (1885-1922) and her husband Chauncey Corey Brainerd (1874-1922) wikipedia : link Both were writing independently before their partnership (and marriage), he as a journalist. Several of their stories were made into films.

Both died in 1922 (when the roof of a theater collapsed under heavy snow). And yet numerous titles appeared thereafter, all published — or issued under the copyright held — by G. Howard Watt (?-1940).

William Lampkin (at the Pulp.net) has done some research on the pair, see his “A Fateful Blizzard for two Fictioneers” at ThePulp.Net (January 27, 2023) : link

Some further information at their respective find-a-grave pages : link for Edith, and link for Chauncey. The latter source quotes a Louisville Times tribute, which characterizes their working method as : “she the diviser of the plot and property man, he the literary spinner.” Impossible to know. Am reminded of the Viña / Eugene Delmar partnership.

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E. J. Rath at the Online Books Page : link

23 titles are listed at LC (some of them adaptations by others) : link. The earliest of these is The sixth speed (frontispiece by C. Weber-Ditzler; Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908) This was followed by several published by W. J. Watt : wikipedia : link. Sam (illustrations by Will Grefe; 1915). “Mister 44” (illustrations by George W. Gage; 1916) Too Much Efficiency (frontispiece by Will Foster; 1917) Too Many Crooks (frontispiece by Paul Stahr; 1918) Mantle of silence (frontispiece by George W. Gage; 1920) Good References ((wonderful) frontispiece by Paul Stahr; 1921)

Thereafter, the (posthumous) books are Grosset & Dunlap or G. H. Watt (son of W. J. Watt?).

I would like to know of W. J. and G. Howard Watt, the latter having published (in addition to popular fiction, westerns, mysteries, books about dogs, &c., &c., these huge undetakings in particular —

Karl Köhler, A History of Costume Edited and augmented by Emma von Sichart translated by Alexander K. Dallas M. A. with sixteen plates in colour and about 600 other illustrations and patterns. New York : G. Howard Watt (copyright 1928, published 1930) Wellesley College copy, via archive.org : link

and

Corey Lewis (Louis C. Fraina), his The house of Morgan; a social biography of the masters of money (1930) borrowable at archive.org : link

what a tangled thread, Corey Lewis was Louis C. Fraina (1892-1953), autodidact, brilliant writer, founding member of the Communist Part of the USA, organizer... wikipedia : link

This post has metastasized beyond all sense of order, and will likely be separated out into two entries at the html archive — in due course.  

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: J.K. Potter's Embrace the Mutation HC DJ 1st Ed Numbered Signed + Bonus Chapbook.

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Volume 275

0:00:00 — "Parallels" (Club Mix) by Laurie Miller (1987)

0:06:19 — DJ

0:10:15 — "Put Your Back To It" by November Group (1983)

0:15:42 — "Night Architecture" by November Group (1983)

0:18:37 — "I Live Alone" by November Group (1983)

0:22:41 — "Institutions" by Factual (1983)

0:25:43 — DJ

0:29:58 — "Friends Not Lovers" by Joan Armatrading (1985)

0:33:38 — "Plague of Hearts" by Flip (1985)

0:37:07 — "Love Incognito" by Flip (1985)

0:41:45 — "Delta Four" (Edit) by Synergy (1979)

0:43:28 — DJ

0:48:06 — "Amaretto" by Lee Ritenour (1984)

0:51:36 — "Heavenly Bodies" by Lee Ritenour (1984)

0:56:11 — "Dolphin Dreams" by Lee Ritenour (1983)

1:00:54 — DJ

1:05:50 — "Changeless Faith: Song of the Morrow" by Collin Walcott (1977)

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Does anyone have the audio of this interview:

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 CHLOE BENNET SHE + THEM / have you ever heard of LET’S GET WILD BY BUCKCHERRY., well, it describes RILEY CHEN to a tee! the THIRTY ONE year old, ZOO KEEPER  was spotted browsing through the stalls at portobello road market last sunday, do you know them? would you say SHE is more rebellious or more CARING  instead? anyway, they remind me of traveling the desert to seek a purpose , the freedom of being able to look up at the sky without worry , calloused hands constantly at work , maybe you’ll bump into them soon!

 KWAK DONG YEON HE + HIM / have you ever heard of SET ME FREE PT 2 BY JIMIN., well, it describes SEHUN KAHN to a tee! the TWENTY EIGHT year old, OWNER OF CLOUD NINE   was spotted browsing through the stalls at portobello road market last sunday, do you know them? would you say HE is more superstitious  or more UNSELFISH  instead? anyway, they remind me of high class business suits , the feeling of never being what your father wants you to be , the constant feeling of never being enough , maybe you’ll bump into them soon!

 LANDON LIBOIRON HE + HIM / have you ever heard of AMERICAN IDIOT BY GREEN DAY., well, it describes ELIJAH MORROW  to a tee! the THIRTY ONE year old, VETERINARIAN was spotted browsing through the stalls at portobello road market last sunday, do you know them? would you say HE is more weak willed  or more KIND  instead? anyway, they remind me of early mornings spent watching the sunrise , the telltale sign of seeking serotonin by spending money and the leslie knope meme with 32 cats and dogs , maybe you’ll bump into them soon!

DJ COTRONA HE + HIM / have you ever heard of FIRE TO THE FUSE BY JACKSON WANG., well, it describes LUCIANO BARISI to a tee! the FORTY year old, FORMER MERCENARY was spotted browsing through the stalls at portobello road market last sunday, do you know them? would you say HE is more aggressive  or more WILLFUL  instead? anyway, they remind me of smoke pillowing into the air , camouflage and combat boots , one too many energy drinks to get through the night, maybe you’ll bump into them soon!

[ofpetalsnlead]

[I was finally free after three years for trying to kill Clay Morrow for my best friend and President @ofpetalsnash. I, of course, failed and Lexi lost me and Esai for the same reason. The only difference is that I get to go home. When I walked through the gate, I saw my nephew @romeocreeps waiting for me.]

HI BABY! Goodness, I’ve missed you. Is everyone okay?

[I could see the look on @romeocreeps’ face and I knew something was wrong.

“Hi, Tia Mama, I’ve missed you so much. Not exactly, Tia Lexi was attacked at her shop by some racists. DJ and the boys were with her.”

The hug that I gave @romeocreeps was probably too tight, but he didn’t seem to care.]

Are they okay? They fucking better be okay!

[My poor nephew looked like he was about to burst into tears.

“I don’t know, Mama I can’t get anyone to answer me and I’m starting to freak the fuck out.”

Knowing @romeocreeps as well as I do, I knew that this was a major problem.]

Okay, baby let’s go and see what we can find out.

[As soon as we were on the road I exhaled because I knew that I would be with Lexi soon enough. When we pulled up to the house though I started to think that we had some fatalities. I didn’t even wait for my nephew before I climbed out of the car and headed inside. The first thing I noticed was the little girl close to a meltdown.]

Hey, sweetpea, my name is Savannah. Are you looking for your mommy?

[When I saw @ofreapersnroses nod I held out my arms and waited for her to feel safe with me.]

Let’s go get her then, yeah?

[I held Grace close to me and went to her bedroom finding Lexi near a meltdown of her own.]

Pres, it’s Vannah. I have someone who is looking for you.

[I saw @ofpetalsnash look up at me and tilt her head to the side.]

Hey, pretty lady I’ve missed you. This little lady was getting upset out in the living room. I thought that she would be better in here with you.

[I was so confused when Lexi looked at me like she didn’t even know who I was. All that I could do now was cry.]

A Broken Plea

[I stepped inside my niece's room with @rebelofareaper and froze. I could feel the love pouring out of this room. What made me gasp was the framed photo of me with @ofpetalsnash when I was a kid. It’s no secret that Lexi and I were always close, but no one knew just how close. I looked at Chris and started to help him figure out where we were going to put everything.]

She talked about you a lot when she was in the hospital. Thank you for giving her a safe space when Jax was an asshole. She needed that. She loves you and Uncle Les a lot.

[The chuckle that came from Chris made me stop what I was doing and look at him.

“I’m glad she let you in her head, she shuts down on almost everyone else. I didn’t get it for the longest time, then Katie and my princess were taken from me. I get it, I get it now and I wish I didn’t.”

It made me sad to think that Chris understood Lexi’s pain. Just when I was about to say something a blood-curdling scream ripped through the house.

“What the hell was that?”

I dropped everything and ran down the hall only to find @ofpetalsnash being restrained by the very woman who took me away when I was six. I stood frozen in place as @rebelofareaper removed the woman from the house. Once Lexi was free, I walked over to her and spoke in a whisper.]

Lexi Grace, it’s me. She’s gone, it’s okay, come with me.

[As I carried my sister back to @ofreapersnroses’ room tears rolled down my cheeks. I sat in the rocking chair holding Lexi in my arms.

“My arms hurt Bubba; my arms hurt so bad.”

There was a knock on the door, and I tensed until I heard a familiar voice. @docofcrosnsins was here.

“Lexi it’s just me. It’s Tiki.”

I watched him come into the room and sit on the floor.

“Hey, Tommy, welcome home, Bubs. If I had realized who you were I would have brought you home.”

[I knew @docofcrosnsins was being truthful and I loved him for it.]

I know, T, Sissy says her arms hurt can you help her? I see bruises and fingerprints. Help her, please.

[ex-cogtfi]

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DJ Morrow (2021). Saturn Devouring His Son [Balloons].