[J. Fred Muggs, BOTD in 1952, was a regular on The Today Show from 1953 to 1957, and was the first non-human primate to paint a cover for Mad Magazine. He retired to Florida with his girlfriend, Phoebe B. Beebe.]
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[Model Barbara Cheeseborough was BOTD in 1946, to appear on the cover of Funkadelic's 1970 LP "Maggot Brain."]
[Yep! Everything!]
[Sing, sing! What shall we sing?
The cat's run away with the pudding bag string.]
[Invaluable Thayer David was BOTD in 1927 to play ax murderer Matthew Morgan, lovable servant Ben Stokes, psychic investigator Timothy Eliot Stokes, immortal alchemist Count Petofi, et alia on Dark Shadows. He lived in Manhattan and collected walking sticks, 18th century European landscape paintings, and Victorian furniture.]
[RIP underground cartoonist and artist Frank Stack, aka Foolbert Sturgeon, 88.]
[Roger Davis, who celebrates his 87th birthday today, went on Dark Shadows and portrayed Peter Bradford, Jeff Clark, Ned Stuart, Dirk Wilkins, and Charles Delaware Tate, all of them unbearable but O well.]
[RIP English absurdist Glen Baxter, 82]
[Ladendorf's Patented Back-Action Feline Destroyer in actual use. Our Humbaba, Frankie, and Pleasant Puff would want one of these.
New York World, Sunday, October 27, 1901.]
[The Hope Free Gate]
[Jucika's fashion show. Beachwear, swimming, after swimming.]
[Memorial to Ming the Harlem Tiger]
Replying to
@ridetheory [That is a fine sideshow.]
[Big band singer Ann Bennett was BOTD in 1927 to sing the theme song to the Felix the Cat cartoon show in English and Spanish.]
[Three Black Cats, by Carl Kahler]
[These doge depositions went on the internet archive today, if anybody wants 'em.]
https://archive.org/details/Doge-Depositions-MLA-ACLS-AHA-Lawsuit-About-The-NEH
[Happy 88th birthday to Roy Thinnes, who starred in The Invaders TV series, got cut out of FAMILY PLOT (1976), and was Roger Collins in Dark Shadows 1991, which we needn't discuss.]
[A train ride through Java, 1912]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_xC7u4BVKE&list=PLQr5oaajRw8OIu6E4RmGEBnwRE7DqT0mM
Reis Willem I-Djocja
[The Adventures of Mouton! Mouton dines with a hedgehog, dances a pas de trois, and meets a queen.]
[At last! A periodical that caters to the screwball wit' skirts.]
[The Skylarks, for Miriam Makeba's birthday]
[Mouton vs. Giant Spider! And other adventures. And a nap.]
[Happy Manananggal Monday! Have a green graveyard manananggal, a baby-thieving manananggal, and a flyin' and chillin' manananggal.
Hiwaga means goosebumps. I believe Tagalog Klasiks started as a translation of the familiar Classics Illustrated comics and soon became its own thing.]
[Coming Soon]
[A trove of recordings by Jack Kerouac, BOTD in 1922.]
https://archive.org/details/204-poems-from-the-unpublished-book-of-blues
[RIP blues singer and guitarist John P. Hammond, 83, who composed the soundtrack to LITTLE BIG MAN (1970).]
[Happy 98th birthday to cartoonist Sy Barry, who drew The Phantom for decades. He also drew "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and produced by the studio of Al Capp (already a lunatic, but not so reactionary as later) in 1957; read it here.]
[No New Sunnydale, thank you.]
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/buffy-reboot-dead-hulu-sarah-michelle-gellar-1236687974/
[Happy 96th birthday to opera singer Mary Costa, ex-wife of Frank Tashlin and the voice of Princess Aurora in SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959), seen here performing "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi in 1968.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V9ROVOv1wc&list=RD9V9ROVOv1wc&start_radio=1
Mary Costa Performing O Mio Babbino Caro on the Hollywood Palace 1968 Don Knotts Hosting .
Unt don’d mage exbostulations yet--unt glaim dot you see but dree baramoecia vich are all der same. For you don’d-d-d--und dey ain’d-d-d.
[Episodes 1 and 3 of the Daleks' Master Plan (1965) found!]
["What I liked best was being beastly to Stalin and Hitler!" Tove Jansson started drawing anti-fascist cartoons for Helsinki's satiric magazine Garm in 1929, at thie age of 15, and produced more than 100 covers.]
[Cat Actor of the Day: King as Lucio in the Mr. Ripley miniseries]
[Art Young, Young's Magazine, 1922]
[Dancer Caren Marsh Doll, born April 6, 1919, was a stand-in for Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939). She was later named Miss Sky Lady of 1947, learned to fly, and was one of 13 survivors of the 1949 Standard Airlines Crash in Chatsworth. She is 107 years old today.]
I had to blink myself back into seeability, of course--so rapidly had I removed my phiz--so swiftly had the automatic light in that ’scope gone out when I removed muh noble brow from the depressor.
[The lost epilogue to DRACULA (1931). But where does the sound come from?]
The girl, with a rueful backward look at Tommy’s evident at-homeness with a strange card index, went back downstairs to her work.