He listens all night long, sometimes its kind of too much and wakes him up. I found some old radio broadcasts of the NYC blackout of 1971 and burned them to cd.
HERE IT IS: HG WELLS’ TIME MACHINE, turn the lights out and you are there as they travel Manhattan describing the blackout, what was on First and 40th, up town, downtown, east side, west side…. But not one Eloi to be seen…
http://donswaim.com/wcbssoundpage.html scroll down its all fun, even the recent blackout is there (we were there, but did not have a radio to listen to it)
NYC POWER OUTAGE, FEB. 6, 1971. Long time Newsradio 88 fans will recognize the voices of George Reading, John Lynker, Palmer Payne, Jack Welby, Allegra
Branson, and meterologist Gordon Barnes. On part 3, Bob Scheiffer anchors a
network hourly along with Robert Shackney. Then an excerpt of the WCBS
public affairs broadcast Let's Find Out with Dick Reeves and Steve Flanders.
Audio courtesy of Charles Sanzone.
Backout Part I 2/6/71 (33:43)
Backout Part 2 2/6/71 (53:23)
Backout Part 3 2/6/71 (34:49)
In a New York kind of mood I finished Paul Auster’s NEW YORK TRILOGY, a fine book. Fun stories, kind of surreal in the beginning, demanding, the last one is the best one.
Hear an interview with Auster, from 1987 (more time travel)
http://wiredforbooks.org/paulauster/index.htm
I am reading THE BRAM STOKER BEDSIDE COMPANION (10 stories by the author of Dracula) at the moment. I was reading about Stoker while reading Dracula and saw it mentioned. It has a story, DRACULA’S GUEST, that was extracted from the published novel – so I felt a bit cheated…AND ITS IS A GOOD LITTLE STORY. I got it used from abebooks.com -- old.
http://librivox.org/dracula-by-bram-stoker/ if you want to listen . . .
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/ is a page that I JUST LOVE, find anything from Poe to the Owl and the Pussycat…..
on Bram, did you know he wrote this fascinating book, I am still looking.
New York Times
SOME FAMOUS IMPOSTORS; Mr. Bram Stoker Includes Among Them the "Man" Known as Queen Elizabeth
February 26, 1911, Sunday
Section: Review of Books, Page BR107, 549
words
FIRST PARAGRAPH - IN his book entitled "Famous Impostors,"*
Mr. Bram Stoker, after sketching for us the careers of a well-selected group of
acknowledged pretenders, swindlers, charlatans, and masqueraders, such as Perkin
Warbeek, Stephen Mali, Princess Olin, John Law, Arthur Orton, La Maupin,
Chevalier d'Eon and Hannah Snell, invites our attention to an alleged tradition
to the effect that Queen Elizabeth was a man.
--john
