Hero Pulps and Pulp Heroes, the Mythology of the Old West, Ripper Lore and Limehouse Tales, Military History, Steam Locomotives, Great Airships, Cryptozoology
& Conspiriana
Music
Americana, Big Band, Swing, Psychedelia, Surf Guitar, Jazz (Hot, Cool and Acid), Blooze, Ennio Morricone's Film Scores, Experimental Sounds, Techno, Electro, Hard and Classic Rock
With Special Reverence for
In particular
Coincidentally
Currently
Constantly
Movies
Most all science fiction films of the 1950s with scientist types front and center irrespective of their particular agendas.
Westerns of every stripe. Old and new; silent and noisy; classic and revisionist; good and bad... Even Johnny Guitar!
Classic Noir with lots of cheap, desperate people smoking and trying hard to pull a fast one.
Hardboiled transitionals in the style of John Boorman's 1967 toughguy opus, Point Blank.
THE BRASS BANCROFT SERIES
Starring Ronald Reagan
Warner Bros. 1939-40 — · — Secret Service of the Air Code of the Secret Service Smashing the Money Ring Murder in the Air
Television
Hawaii Five-O, The Rockford Files, Crime Story, Brimstone, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Brisco County Jr., Deadwood, Life, Cities of the Underworld, Atom, Mantracker, Most Evil, Dogfights, Deconstructed, Wild West Tech, Lost Worlds, TCM, most anything with an intro theme by The Who. And of late, the inexplicably addictive conspiracy concoction, Fringe.
Radio
WJZZ · 107.5
WRAS · Album88
WNNX · 100.5 Rock
Books
Talbot Mundy: Philosopher of Adventure, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Deerslayer, The Sea-Wolf, The Doc Savage Canon, The Works of Philip José Farmer, Everything Is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson, Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
Politics
Technocracy! Feudalism! Mabuse!
Teams
Atlanta Silverbacks New Jersey Devils Las Vegas 51s
Buildings
Chrysler Empire State Lever House
Planes
Boeing P-26 Polikarpov I-16 Northrop YB-49
Trains
Hesston Streamliner #2 Union Pacific M-10000
20th Century Limited
Automobiles
1961 Chrysler TurboFlite 1953 Hudson Hornet 1938 Buick Y-Job
Jedediah Smith, Lèon Foucault, Chuck Yeager, Orson Welles, Clark Savage Jr., Cal Ripken, Nikola Tesla, Edmond Dantès, Detective Bobby Goren NYPD, Howard Hughes, Gen. Casimir Pulaski, R. Buckminster Fuller, Robert Ordway MD (aka Crime Doctor), Ayn Rand, Groucho, Santo, Steves McGarrett and McQueen, Mr. Cassidy of the Bar-20 Ranch, Curtis Newton and Col. Stevenson B. Canyon
Also, this guy...
Icon Queue
Johnston/Canniff
obamicondotcom
After Rodchenko
Sticker Collection
Pro
Eximius
Fidelitas
Encomia
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Jenson Artistry™
Accidental Design™
Friends of Patient 742™
LISTEN SONNY, IN MY DAY WE DIDN'T HAVE DEVON AOKI-IN-A-BOX. WE HAD ANT FARMS! AND WE LIKED IT!
I remember the '60s more clearly than I probably should. And feel that (dearth of personal jet-packs notwithstanding) yesteryear's future is immeasurably more interesting than either Astounding Stories or Mr. Truman Bradley led us to believe.
Nevertheless, I am a grudging technorealist at best. While having come to fully appreciate the universal availability of today's always-up, knowledge-on-demand cybersorcery, I harbor an affinity for gadgetry burnished, sparking, clockwork-laden and completely absent of microanything. Also antique gasmasks where available.
DOCTOR MABUSE, KING OF CRIME AND SNAPPY DRESSER
Vintage pulp lit and action film serials have long held my interest to a near prurient degree. Contemporary works of fictioneering inspired by the likes of Street & Smith's stable of print stars and Republic Pictures' great cliffhangers are likewise regarded with all due respect and enthusiasm.
WHEN THE NAME'S DOCTOR SATAN, THE WORD "MYSTERIOUS" IS NEVER FAR REMOVED.
Who watches The Watchmen? I for one. And likely a host of long-time devotees of the gritty, revisionist crimefighting assemblage of the late 1980's known by that name. Moreover, this film may well attract new eyes and curious minds. Indeed it may yet prove to be the catalyst which directs a new generation toward the original damaged heroes, the savage and shadowy founders of Pulp Justice.
COURTESY OF DAVE PERILLO & MONTYGOG'S ART-O-RAMA
DOCTOR SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM #1 (1962)
DELL PUBLISHING/ART BY RICHARD POWERS
BOGART'S SOLE FORAY INTO THE REALM OF SCREEN HORROR
Who I'd like to meet:
Among the currently living, ergo potentially accessible.... Les Stroud, Bob Dylan, Jasper Johns, Ann-Margret, Hank Aaron, Shakira, Dennis Miller, Patricia Cornwell, John Glenn, Dr. G: Medical Examiner, Chris Carter, Simon Wincer, Angie Dickinson, Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, Kristanna Loken and Bigfoot. Neither in that particular order necessarily nor at a common gathering. But then again...
Here, it would be anyone who doesn't fly with the other crows.
(FURTHER REFLECTONS) IN THE ROOM OF PERCUSSION
Kaleidoscope UK — Tangerine Dream (1967)
I hope this greeting finds you well and in high spirits. Apologies for my lengthy absence. I've been fairly busy all through the summer and into fall with work at the lab, family and our latest addition, a dog joining the house of Cody...she's a 3 yr. old, amazing border collie, aptly named, Sheena. On the science front, I'll assume, the knowledgeable man you are, you've spotted the latest contribution to the advancement of the rocket pack. As always, take care Doc.
