Harry Stephen Keeler

[No New Sunnydale, thank you.]

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/buffy-reboot-dead-hulu-sarah-michelle-gellar-1236687974/

[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

[A train ride through Java, 1912]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_xC7u4BVKE&list=PLQr5oaajRw8OIu6E4RmGEBnwRE7DqT0mM

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.

[Model Barbara Cheeseborough was BOTD in 1946, to appear on the cover of Funkadelic's 1970 LP "Maggot Brain."]

[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.]

[Episodes 1 and 3 of the Daleks' Master Plan (1965) found!]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

[The Hope Free Gate]

[Sing, sing! What shall we sing?
The cat's run away with the pudding bag string.]

[Jucika's fashion show. Beachwear, swimming, after swimming.]

[Memorial to Ming the Harlem Tiger]

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.

[A trove of recordings by Jack Kerouac, BOTD in 1922.]

https://archive.org/details/204-poems-from-the-unpublished-book-of-blues

[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.]

https://www.crmvet.org/docs/ms_for_comic.pdf

[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.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yQwqmY2hHE

[The Skylarks, for Miriam Makeba's birthday]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAFgiBvsho

[Cat Actor of the Day: King as Lucio in the Mr. Ripley miniseries]

[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 blues singer and guitarist John P. Hammond, 83, who composed the soundtrack to LITTLE BIG MAN (1970).]

https://archive.org/details/jhj_20260303

[Three Black Cats, by Carl Kahler]

The girl, with a rueful backward look at Tommy’s evident at-homeness with a strange card index, went back downstairs to her work.

[Coming Soon]

[Mouton vs. Giant Spider! And other adventures. And a nap.]

[The Adventures of Mouton! Mouton dines with a hedgehog, dances a pas de trois, and meets a queen.]