Divers and Sundry

The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird is a 1952 public domain version of the French animated film The King and the Mockingbird dubbed i...

The Dead Letter (1866) by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor is the first full-length American work of crime fiction. You can read it online ...

Criss Cross is a 1949 crime film/film noir. Directed by Robert Siodmak, it stars Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, and Dan Duryea. The doubl...

How Love Came to Professor Guildea is generally considered the best story Robert Hichens wrote. You can read it online here , or listen...

Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 comedy about a man who gets a new job as station master at a remote Northern Ireland railway station where no one ...

photo from Wikimedia Commons Scratch Monkey is a science fiction novel, one of his earliest, by Charles Stross . You can read it online...

In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. trailer: You can wat...

The Squire's Story is an 1855 gothic short story by Elizabeth Gaskell . You can read it online here . It begins, In the year 1769 ...

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 crime film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. It also has Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parson...

The Diamond Lens (1858) is the best and best-known story of Fitz James O'Brien . Wikipedia reports that "It was one of the favour...

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 Finnish dark parody film, a wonderful parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 franchises. Den of...

Hyperion is the first book in Dan Simmons' award-winning 4-book Hyperion Cantos series. I've loved these since they came out sta...

Othello is the 1951 Orson Welles film adaptation, much abridged, of the Shakespeare play . You can watch it online at this link . trailer...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 2012 at age 73 of Scott McKenzie , whose best-known song was San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers...

The Shadow of the Cat is a 1961 British Hammer studio horror film. The cat is the only witness to the murder of her mistress. While the mur...

We had a completely uneventful trip home, which is always a good thing. We had decided to stop for lunch at Jack's , a short order resta...

We decided to make our last full day in Chattanooga relatively low-key. We took the free downtown shuttle across the river to the North Shor...

There's a history in our family going back to when the kids were little of us trying without success to ride a train. Either they only o...