[radondoran]

The Great Pie Robbery (1969)

[lizardsfromspace]

Wordle is running out of words. Only 2,000 five letter words remain. When that supply is exhausted the Creation shall begin. One day the word will be ZHURM, and all shall get it, and all shall understand it to mean "an ache from suddenly remembering a long-ago friend, who meant something to you once, but whose face you can no longer conjure". The next day the word shall be JOROL, and all will get it, and all will know it means "the melancholy confusion of passing by somewhere where you once could have died". The next day it will be GREFT, and all will understand it to be a small brown bird with white streaks found only in South America, and suddenly, it will appear, in the shrubs of the Atacama desert, in the streets of São Paulo, and all will know that it once was not there, but now, will always be

[radondoran]

a big reason The Wild Wild West is such a fun show is because usually when a show has two guys, the brainy guy is stoic and the brawny guy is emotional

but Jim West kicks all the ass and kisses all the girls and speaks in a monotone

and Artemus Gordon invents gadgets and speaks like ten languages and is a temperamental show-off

[radondoran]

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury was the first Lucky Starr novel i read, back in like 2010 or whatever

reading it again now after probably ten years since the last reread and god, no wonder I love Bigman Jones so much, no wonder I loved him immediately, he's so good in this one

[radondoran]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ellery Queen Series - Ellery Queen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nikki Porter/Ellery Queen Characters: Ellery Queen, Richard Queen, Thomas Velie, Nikki Porter Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, not sure if book-influenced EQ radio show fic or radio-influenced EQ book fic Summary:

"Am I sure I'm all right," Ellery repeated indulgently, with a wry smile. "Really, Dad, if I'd been shot and fallen twelve stories, don't you think I would have noticed?"

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

HAVE Z AND ALPHA NOT BEEN MADE AWARE? HAVE WE FAILED AT CONTINUING TO MEME THE HELL OUT OF IT? ARE WE, IN FACT, THE GRANDMAS BECAUSE WE ARE THE ANCIENT KEEPERS OF THE INCEST COFFEE KNOWLEDGE???

[fatsexybitch]

[lizardbeths]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A fandom since 2011 guys

[quarra]

[marzipanandminutiae]

(If anybody is wondering “how could they write that and not anticipate the reaction?“ It’s because the sister was supposed to be much younger in the original draft. Like. An actual child. But they aged her up and never bothered changing the dialogue, so…)

[wemblingfool]

It’s honestly not the writing or the age, or even the acting that screams “incest.”

It’s the directing and camera work. It’s specifically the long lingering gazes.

[adulthoodisokay]

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad

The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.

I’m begging you to read the oral history of this commercial. It features some banger quotes and also Timothy Simons, aka Jonah from Veep, who worked the camera for the auditions and callbacks.

[folgersincest]

It’s that time of year again

[radondoran]

"...for Lucky Starr, in this particular adventure, was needlessly close-mouthed, allowing his sidekick to think he was an utter bastard..."

okay there's something incredibly refreshing about Isaac Asimov calling Lucky Starr "an utter bastard"

[radondoran]

Calamity Town was not a bad detective novel but i'm pretty disappointed that the last line of The Dragon's Teeth kinda promised me Ellery "worrying himself to a shadow" over, presumably, another New York private detective type case, and then the next book is like three years later and isn't like that at all?

also, i mean, i get it, i accept it, and he's still a reasonably endearing protagonist, but gosh I miss pince-nez-twirling, dork-ass loser, overgrown Harvard lad Ellery, he was so damn cute

[radondoran]

reading The Greek Coffin Mystery is always fun because it's like El you insufferable little motherfucker, i love you so much

[radondoran]

this fuckin guy

[radondoran]

reading The Greek Coffin Mystery is always fun because it's like El you insufferable little motherfucker, i love you so much

[radondoran]

i grabbed this without even realizing it was a Wednesday tie-in product, I just assumed that they were marketing despair-flavored Gushers to millennials and I was like yes sold

[radondoran]

may i direct your attention to these scenes from The Case of the Drowning Duck and The Case of the Careless Kitten in which Perry Mason is casually naked in front of Paul Drake

(like i'm sure this was perfectly normal for men in the early 1940s but to me it feels STRIKINGLY INTIMATE)

[theperrylleluniverse]

Okay I just read The Case of the Drowning Duck and I literally can’t get over that Paul just walks in on Perry bathing then chit chats with him as Perry finishes his bath then gets dressed (extremely slowly for some reason). Like “watched the lawyer drawing on his trousers”?? Erle!

Also it’s really cute later when Della comes in 🥺

[radondoran]

i don't remember offhand which one it is where they knock on Paul's door in the middle of the night and Perry's like "Della's with me" and Paul's like "oh in that case wait a second" and answers the door in a robe, like if Perry had been alone he would have been okay with less clothing but he's gotta be decent in front of a lady

just some fascinating social dynamics

[radondoran]

[Ellery] paused to look at his watch as he and the Sergeant reentered the Colosseum. It was ten minutes past four.

"What on earth," he demanded of his silent companion, "would we do without Herr Einstein? It took the incomparable Teuton to make us realize how fragile Time really is—what an insecure place it holds in the scheme of things, 'Le moment oú je parle est déja loin de moi. . . . ' I suppose you aren't acquainted with Boileau? The seventeenth-century satirist, 'Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi—'"

"How you talk," chuckled the Sergeant suddenly.

Ellery became silent with celerity.

- The American Gun Mystery, chapter 11

[radondoran]

Radio Digest, 1924-04-05

[swamp-adder]

Me reading my first Nero Wolfe book (The Silent Speaker): Well Rex Stout was the guy who said Watson must be a woman because two men would never act that way toward each other, so presumably this series will be less shippy than the Holmes stories -- 

Archie Goodwin: Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It’s childish.

Me: Um. OK.

[radondoran]

Rex Stout: Watson was a woman because the detective and the narrator act like a married couple

me: rex have you READ your books

[radondoran]

Ellery's long fingers played with a tiny figurine of the great Bertillon on the Inspector's desk.

- The Dutch Shoe Mystery, chapter 23

okay but i love that Inspector Queen has a tiny figurine of Bertillon on his desk, like what the hell, where do you even get a Bertillon figurine

[radondoran]

The Billboard, 16 Feb 1918