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Well, I see that you have survived the past week or else you obviously wouldn't be reading this! I'm doin' fine myself, keeping busy with the things I love to keep busy with and of course what you read...
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CEE-DEE REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! STEVE MARRIOTT AND THE DT'S-SING THE BLUES LIVE (Edel Records)I bought this CD out of the budget-bin in 2000, when it came out, at a K-Mart that went out of business soon...
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BOOK REVIEW! DINKY TOYS by Dr. Edward Force (Schiffer Books, 1996) Brad Kohler gave me this book because the ol' stroonad thinks that I used to line up my Dinky Toys along the side of my bath tub when...
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Hiya. Ya still sweating it out out there in Gongo-land, eh? Hope you're all enjoyin' yourself because I sure am, what with me keeping my distance from people thus avoiding the usually stench-y body...
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BOOK REVIEW! THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS by Rudolph Dirks (Dover Publications, 1974) A few years back I reviewed yet anotherKATZENJAMMER KIDS collection which I ought to dig out for a re-read, and lo and...
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BOOTLEG BROUHAHA, or MEMORIES ARE MADE OF RUN-DOWN OLD RECORD SHOPS WITH THE TILING COMING OFF THE FLOORHaven't had one of these since last autumn, and as the days dwindle down to a precious few maybe...
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RADIO SHOW REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! BLACKSTONE, THE MAGIC DETECTIVE (Mutual Broadcasting System, 1948-1950)Harry Blackstone (1885-1965) was for many years the most successful magician in North America,...
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FANZINE REVIEW! PUNK #1 (reissue of 1976 magazine)If you were too poor, too fetal, or in my case too stoopid (hey Jay, I can be "self deprecating" too!) to get this 'un way back 1976 way well, you've...
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Well hey, wasn't that quite a week we had there, just jam packed with a whole lotta action you just couldn't get outta Parcheesi? Y'know, I was gonna make a whole lotta wizecracks about the recent...
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A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK REVIEW - DICK TRACY by Carl Memling, pictures by Hawley Pratt and Al White (Golden Press, 1962) Sheesh, I really must be craving for the next volume of THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY if...
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H. L. Mencken was wrong. Politics isn't the worship of jackals by jackasses, rock 'n roll is. And on that note once again let us head on into more of that jackal-worshiping which I gotta say has kept...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! SHARP-SHOOTING TWIN SISTERS, (Spain, 1966), STARRING PILI Y MILI AND SEAN FLYNN!PILI Y MILI were twin blonde sisters (Pilar and Emilia Bayona) from Zaragoza, Spain,...
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BOOK REVIEW! FRED KIDA'S VALKYRIE! (Ken Pierce Books, 1982)No this ain't the Marvel Valkyrie, it's the one who appeared at Hillman, also the home of such now PD figures as Airboy and the Heap! And as...
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So we bleat again. Got a nice packed (and not with fudge you thilly thing!) post this week, one which I hope'll inspire at least ONE of you readers to empty out your wallet so's you can absorb some of...
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BOOK REVIEW! STUDEBAKER CARS BY JAMES H. MOLONEY (Motorbooks International, 1994) Like old television programs, family furniture and strange communicable diseases, certain things can flash me back to...
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And so have I, Whit. In fact I kinda get the feeling that I'm one of the "whittiest" people in the under-the-counterculture rock blogging world and the last person I wanna see get offed is me!***Welp,...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! DAMNED PISTOLS OF DALLAS (Spain, 1964), STARRING FRED BEIR!DAMNED PISTOLS OF DALLAS is one of those Euro-westerns that came rather early in the cycle (this was...
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BOOK REVIEW! STARSHIP TROOPERS BY ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (Ace Books, 1959)Yeah I know, you wouldn't think I'd be caught dead reading juvenile literature along the lines of a fifties science fiction novel...
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Happy July 4th! Hope you're celebrating indie-pendence in your own special and hopefully moral way, and not by tearing down statues like I know a few reg'lar readers probably are right at this very...
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BOOK REVIEW! STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND BY ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (Penguin Books, 1961) Yup, reviewing STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND is about as obvious a deed as reviewing either THE BIBLE or THE NAMBLA...
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