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Post by noose on Sept 2, 2011 16:15:23 GMT
with scant regard for anything approaching logic...Sorry, board hijack again, as it's the best way to find Pulp... Crossroads? and Max Smart? Yours if you want them!
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Post by pulphack on Sept 3, 2011 9:32:43 GMT
mr mains - how could i resist the grinning face of the wonderful amy turtle - a non-actress if ever there was one, even by crossie standards! i will happily embarrass myself by reading that on the train, and accept your kind offer.
the get smart is actually one of the two that i've found again, and thanks for the offer but i think that dem would be a good home for it, as he'll be converted to the the Johnston path rapidly. some writers are odd because they're bad (ed wood - sorry, love the movies, can't stomach the books), whereas others are odd because they see the world in an odd way - though no harry stephen keeler, wm j is of that ilk.
by the way, that will make 3 crossie books in my collection, all from your good self - are you sure you're not just feeding your own love of crossroads in a vicarious manner?
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Post by noose on Sept 3, 2011 9:49:18 GMT
Right Dem, Get Smart book is yours! Never read an Ed Wood book as they are a bugger to get a hold of. Wouldn't buy the new reprints they did a while back as I wanted the real deal, so the search continues... And I actually bought another copy of the first Crossroads book I gave you...  |
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Post by pulphack on Sept 4, 2011 6:15:59 GMT
there is something about the crossroads book - which i'm sure will carry over to the approaching title - in that the style Hulke adopts is so breezy and natural, and the subject is so... well, nice... that it really is a breath of fresh air.
unlike ed wood... someone got me two reprints as an xmas pressie about 15 years ago, and i'd already bought another reprint from maurice at zardoz. i dunno - let me die in drag and killer in drag should have had all the wood hallmarks that make the films just so - er - unique. and i suppose they did. but the wooden (ha!) dialogue and exposition that seems so loveable on screen dripped off the page like 3 week old porridge*. so much so that i can't even remember what the third book was called (though it was about girl gangs, i think). massively disappointing. i reckon hanging out for originals is the only way to do wood in print, because at least you have the vintage and rarity angle to atone for the poor content. (and this from a man who likes fiona richmond and her ghost)
* i know, it would probably be solid, but you get the picture...
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Post by dem on Sept 4, 2011 19:33:07 GMT
thanks for the offer but i think that dem would be a good home for it, as he'll be converted to the the Johnston path rapidly. Right Dem, Get Smart book is yours! gosh thanks muchly, gents! ... i think. The Crossroads novels are, of course, indispensable, simply by virtue of being published by the mighty Everest (or the thinking man's Arkham House as they're known in the trade). in a moment of weakness, i bought a copy of Mr. Hulke's Crossroads: A New Beginning, because it was stuck on a shelf looking all neglected and sorry for itself and i couldn't bring myself to allow it to go to it's inevitable fate in ye skip bound for a landfill site. As you can see, the previous owner made some panicked attempt at exorcising Meg "national treasure" Mortimer's face with a hastily applied cross. as far as William Johnstone and the 'Get Smart's go, i've been holding out for Max Smart and the Ghastly Ghost Affair but that doesn't look like showing up any time soon so will maybe ease myself in with the Happy Days biker agro job which at least gives the appearance of being vaguely sensible. Anyone got The Flying Nun tie-ins? Ed Wood. From my small experience his novels and stories are more fun to read about than actually read although he had an undoubted genius for the lurid title. who wouldn't look twice at stuff called Scream Your Bloody Head Off, Gore In The Alley, Bony Fingers From The Grave, Whorehouse Horrors, or Fangs Of The Fiend For The Girl Who Died Twice? |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 4, 2011 20:08:29 GMT
thanks for the offer but i think that dem would be a good home for it, as he'll be converted to the the Johnston path rapidly. Right Dem, Get Smart book is yours! gosh thanks muchly, gents! ... i think. The Crossroads novels are, of course, indispensable, simply by virtue of being published by the mighty Everest (or the thinking man's Arkham House as they're known in the trade). in a moment of weakness, i bought a copy of Mr. Hulke's Crossroads: A New Beginning, because it was stuck on a shelf looking all neglected and sorry for itself and i couldn't bring myself to allow it to go to it's inevitable fate in ye skip bound for a landfill site. As you can see, the previous owner made some panicked attempt at exorcising Meg "national treasure" Mortimer's face with a hastily applied cross. as far as William Johnstone and the 'Get Smart's go, i've been holding out for Max Smart and the Ghastly Ghost Affair but that doesn't look like showing up any time soon so will maybe ease myself in with the Happy Days biker agro job which at least gives the appearance of being vaguely sensible. Anyone got The Flying Nun tie-ins? Ed Wood. From my small experience his novels and stories are more fun to read about than actually read although he had an undoubted genius for the lurid title. who wouldn't look twice at stuff called Scream Your Bloody Head Off, Gore In The Alley, Bony Fingers From The Grave, Whorehouse Horrors, or Fangs Of The Fiend For The Girl Who Died Twice? Those who were spared Crossroads may still be able to sleep after watching this gem The Haunting of Benny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOuGpf1UMcBenny released a song too. Perhaps fortunately, I wasn't able to find it. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 4, 2011 20:16:42 GMT
gosh thanks muchly, gents! ... i think. The Crossroads novels are, of course, indispensable, simply by virtue of being published by the mighty Everest (or the thinking man's Arkham House as they're known in the trade). in a moment of weakness, i bought a copy of Mr. Hulke's Crossroads: A New Beginning, because it was stuck on a shelf looking all neglected and sorry for itself and i couldn't bring myself to allow it to go to it's inevitable fate in ye skip bound for a landfill site. As you can see, the previous owner made some panicked attempt at exorcising Meg "national treasure" Mortimer's face with a hastily applied cross. as far as William Johnstone and the 'Get Smart's go, i've been holding out for Max Smart and the Ghastly Ghost Affair but that doesn't look like showing up any time soon so will maybe ease myself in with the Happy Days biker agro job which at least gives the appearance of being vaguely sensible. Anyone got The Flying Nun tie-ins? Ed Wood. From my small experience his novels and stories are more fun to read about than actually read although he had an undoubted genius for the lurid title. who wouldn't look twice at stuff called Scream Your Bloody Head Off, Gore In The Alley, Bony Fingers From The Grave, Whorehouse Horrors, or Fangs Of The Fiend For The Girl Who Died Twice? Those who were spared Crossroads may still be able to sleep after watching this gem The Haunting of Benny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOuGpf1UMcBenny released a song too. Perhaps fortunately, I wasn't able to find it. He did, didn't he? I remember that one-wasn't it a love song to Miss Diane? They may even have got him to sing it in the bath on Tiswas, although I may be making that bit up. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 4, 2011 21:20:28 GMT
John, I think you're right. You've stirred a vague troublesome recollection in the depths of my mind. I'd clearly buried that scene deep in some part of the brain that protects us poor mortals from gazing into the abyss.
I'm the last person to call for censorship but in this case I think it might be vitally necessary to protect the younger members of the Vault.
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Post by noose on Sept 4, 2011 21:54:56 GMT
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 5, 2011 5:22:10 GMT
Trust you, Johnny, to be so beyond the beyond the pale.  |
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Post by pulphack on Sept 5, 2011 12:32:21 GMT
see, what a big softy dem is, rescuing meg from landfill... of course, a die hard and very ageing crossie fan still thinks of her as meg richardson, not mortimer...
anyway, benny and tiswas - what a great combination. you are a sick puppy, but i'm glad you are, mr mains.
benny was not lucky in love: as i recall, his gypsy girldfriend was mown down by a car the day they were to wed, and then her sister turned up and led him along because she thought he had cash (hey, this IS crossroads) while having her own fiance in the background.
and of course, benny's pets. starry the goat, who he thethered to a fence one episode and then left there for the next ten years as she was never mentioned again. and his donkey, which he called Miss Diane, and must have been a producers revenge for Sue Hanson wanting to be written out...
which reminds me, who could forget Mr Paul, suave restaurant manager and sometimes horror movie star Sandor Eles...
i think i'd better stop there.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 5, 2011 13:49:07 GMT
All this is starting to get a bit frightening, pulphack.  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 5, 2011 13:58:35 GMT
All this is starting to get a bit frightening, pulphack. I concur. You know too much. You've dredged up things that I had buried in the cellar. If this keeps up I will bring in Follyfoot. |
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 5, 2011 14:08:02 GMT
And I'll have to admit that yesterday I went to a live showing of Sesame Street.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 5, 2011 19:39:07 GMT
see, what a big softy dem is, rescuing meg from landfill... of course, a die hard and very ageing crossie fan still thinks of her as meg richardson, not mortimer... anyway, benny and tiswas - what a great combination. you are a sick puppy, but i'm glad you are, mr mains. benny was not lucky in love: as i recall, his gypsy girldfriend was mown down by a car the day they were to wed, and then her sister turned up and led him along because she thought he had cash (hey, this IS crossroads) while having her own fiance in the background. and of course, benny's pets. starry the goat, who he thethered to a fence one episode and then left there for the next ten years as she was never mentioned again. and his donkey, which he called Miss Diane, and must have been a producers revenge for Sue Hanson wanting to be written out... which reminds me, who could forget Mr Paul, suave restaurant manager and sometimes horror movie star Sandor Eles... i think i'd better stop there. And I do believe Sue Corruption Lloyd was in later episodes, wasn't she? At least no-one's mentioned Shughie McFee yet |
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