Happy birthday to the magnificent Snow Mercy!!!
Category: Fantasy
Wood Tile of Desire
Hack based this novel on his cover artist Jonny M.’s erotic descriptions of women’s libidinous response to the new floor that he had just had installed in his government-assisted housing unit. For his part, Hack knew that Jonny was full of crap but he figured that his readers in the Bible Belt would eat it up.
The Curse of Ub Iwerks
Here’s a trivia question for you: Who created Mickey Mouse? If you said Walt Disney, you’re only half right!!! Ub Iwerks was an early partner of Disney’s who took a drawing that Walt sketched out of a cartoon mouse and refined it into the character who starred in Steamboat Willie. Iwerks went on to do much of the animation for the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons, becoming so popular that the Motion Picture Academy gave Disney a special Oscar in 1932 for creating him. If you find it odd that Walt got all the credit for creating Mickey, so did Iwerks who had left the studio in 1930 because he was sick of never getting any credit for Disney’s creations despite being a major contributor to them. Disney ultimately received a record 26 statuettes, never sharing credit with any of his collaborators.
Assassin of Love
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Dorothy’s Brain
“‘Now who will you miss most of all?’ asked the Tin Man contemptuously as he and Dorothy watched the Lion devour the wizard’s insane face.”
Anhedonia
“Anhedonia,” meaning the inability to feel pleasure, was the working title during the shooting of Annie Hall. Pretty smart, huh?
The Claus File
The Thursday
The Love Wizard
I Cream on Jeannie
Happy birthday to the great Barbara Eden!