Highbrow Hiatus - Taking off to read manuscripts, back soon...

Sky King: Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters with a Cessna 310B, N5384A, the Songbird. (Photograph by Hal McAlpin)

Brigitte Bardot & Sacha Distel - La Bise Aux Hippies (1967)

Amusing satire.  "Free Love" indeed. Click HERE for lyrics.

Reading submissions, communications forthcoming...

Satan Rock Star - Reading of Satanic Verses (from Terrance Lindall and Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr.)

Just across my desk from Terrance Lindall.  Here, AI (I am assuming) reads from Bienvenido Bones Bañez, Jr's Satanic Verses.  While I have reservations about the theology, the productions of Monsieurs Lindall and Bañez are often intriguing:

Friday January 23, Joshua Tree, California

 

Space Cowboy Books 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

Friday January 23^rd 4-6pm

61871 29 Palms Hwy. Joshua Tree, CA 92252

https://spacecowboybooks.com/

Come celebrate this milestone with Joshua Tree’s independent bookstore, featuring live music from The Kearns Family & Phog Masheeen, with snacks by Epicurean Fling, and 10% off store-wide. This event is free to attend.

Since opening our doors in January of 2016, Space Cowboy Books has published forty-nine books, musical audiobooks, and chapbooks, plus fifty fanzines, hosted hundreds of in-person and online events, produced ninety-four episodes of Simultaneous Times podcast, won a multitude of awards (Laureate, Bram Stoker, Elgin, +), launched Electronic Brain magazine, provided annual scholarships for Clarion West and Odyssey Writing Workshops, given away thousands of kid’s books, donated hundreds of books to prisons, and generally proliferated the love of literature and all things science fiction. Here’s to ten more years!
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-cowboy-books-10-year-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1979065041815

For press inquiries and photo requests contact Jean-Paul L. Garnier spacecowboybooks@gmail.com

Jean-Paul L. Garnier

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

 A Wayback Machine archive of fantastic art and fiction created by the Cornell University Library Institute for Digital Collections. Click the image for access:

Countess Mona von Bismarck-Schönhausen (née Strader; February 5, 1897 – July 10, 1983)

Salvador Dalí - Portrait of Mrs. Harrison Williams, 1943.  Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 61.4 cm.  Private Collection.

Wiki biography HERE. 

Transgressive Children's Television Advertisements (content altered by a jokester)

Subversive Swedish Children's Television Programming (click "Watch on Youtube")

What happened to Pippi Longstocking?  Click HERE.

Res ipsa loquitur II

Image

Photograph

Cocktail Party

Modernist Aesthetics

Affluence

The Appearance of Affluence

Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks

"Golden Hair" poem by James Joyce (Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett released January 3, 1970, 56 years ago)

Happy Magic New Year

Paul Klee - In the Magic Mirror, 1934