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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David Gold and I will join Marc Jacobson and Larry “Ratso” Sloman for their “Live Radio Hour” on Wednesday, May 2, at 7pm.  It’s at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, NYC, and it’s all about the history of Coney Island; David and I will contribute a song from the Island’s past. Further […]

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“Long Island Beyond the Pale” attracted a nice audience, on a rainy day in Red Hook — which is, of course, technically in Long Island. We performed the ceremonial opening of the ullage with a bottle of Long Island Ice Tea, which our hostess, Lynette Wiley, said “tastes like high school.” Anthony Matt unveiled the […]

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The Ullage Group announces its eleventh event, “Long Island Beyond the Pale.”  We will unearth some of the mysteries, rumors, and folklore that have haunted that troubling region. Anthony Matt will speak about the Montauk Project, and elaborate on the sources of this mad all-encompassing super-conspiracy. Doug Skinner will draw from the late John Keel’s […]

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