The next Ullage Group event is in the works.  We’re planning something tasty, and will meet again when Anthony gets back to town. I direct your attention to an interview with Norman Conquest, the distinguished Président-Fondateur of Black Scat Books, which has published several of my translations, some with my illustrations. And, speaking of Black [...]

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“Peculiar Popularities” attracted a nice large audience.  Thanks to all of you who came out; more Ullage Group events are in preparation.  For those who missed it: Lisa Hirschfield covered the early history of X-Rays in popular culture, with plenty of pictures and early films; Doug Skinner talked about slang, artificial languages, and other fleeting [...]

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The Ullage Group is back for another afternoon of the odd and obscure.  This time, we present “Peculiar Popularities”: a diverse selection of now-forgotten-but-once-popular public interests, practices, and fixations. Anthony Matt will survey the short-lived but popular cinematic stage shows of the late 1800′s that anticipated the birth of motion pictures.  He will discuss panoramic [...]

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The next Ullage Group event, “Peculiar Popularities,” is in preparation.  It will take place on Sunday, March 3, at the Jalopy Theater.  Details will follow. If you happen to be in London the next day (that would be the 4th) at 8 pm, you might pay a visit to Kings Place, 90 York Way.  There, [...]

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My translation of Pierre-Henri Cami’s playlet, “The Man in the Iron Mask,” is included in the first issue of The Black Scat Review.  You read it first on this site; now read it with other interesting material in a magazine. Black Scat Books will also publish a series of booklets collecting the Captain Cap stories, [...]

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Our old friend Mark Pilkington is in town, on a visit from London.  We had planned to organize a second film festival, and show some of his film work, with other material.  However, his planned talk at that fine institution, the Observatory at Proteus Gowanus, has been canceled, due, as you might guess, to the [...]

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First of all, we haven’t posted much here lately because we were hacked, and it took a couple of weeks to clean and update the site.  Our sibling sites, johnkeel.com and dougskinner.net, were also affected.  Many thanks to Kai McBride and Anthony Matt for fixing the problem. On November 5, at 8:00, Doug Skinner will [...]

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Our film festival proved to be an enjoyable way to sit in the dark on a Sunday afternoon.  We were particularly happy to screen some of the films of John Keel, which had not been seen since the 1970s.  Thanks to all who attended. I will be showing comics and picture stories, projected on the [...]

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Here, in case you missed it, is an interview about the upcoming event, as residents of Michigan look longingly eastward. (Posted by Doug Skinner)

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The Ullage Group presents its twelfth enjoyable event: The Ullage Group Film Festival, Volume One.  Attend, and you will see a selection of brief, rare, and unusual films.  We will project onto a screen some of the experimental films John Keel made in the ’60s.  We will show short subjects by Doug Skinner, Anthony Matt, [...]

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