Grab Bag

The Return of the Appalachian Voodoo Super Explosive Intergalactic Grab Bag:

http://jshfiber.blogspot.com/2009/08/return-of-grab-bag.html

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30100369

Ditching Dracula

JSH urges Actors Theatre of Louisville to ditch its long running Dracula play for some other, any other, Halloween show:

http://theatrelouisville.org/jsh/9.html

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2009/08/beyond-dracula.html

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/08/dracula-go-home.html

Plankton, Royalty, Henhouse

Some new fiber batts (Plankton, Royalty, Henhouse) are up on JSH's Etsy store, and on the Appalachian Voodoo Fibers blog:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6683571

http://jshfiber.blogspot.com/

Rand Harmon Interview

Rand Harmon of Specific Gravity Ensemble gives his first interview since leaving Louisville, Kentucky for Louisville, Colorado, and plugs Catclaw Theatre Company on his short list of who matters in the local scene:

"Don't settle for mediocre. Stay loyal to LePetomane, Pandora, Finnigan, Lilith, Necessary, Catclaw. They won't disappoint."

http://theatrelouisville.org/stories2009/Harmon.php

Today in JSH history: Shermia Love in LEO

One year ago today, August 26, 2008: Catclaw's Shermia Love got a nice writeup in LEO on the heels of Toulouse-inations:

http://leoweekly.com/news-features/major-stories/features/profile-shermia-love-actress

Erik Anthony DeCicco

Keeping up with the latest doings of Erik A. DeCicco (Jack the Ripper suspect Dr. Francis J. Tumblety in Toulouse-inations):

http://catclawtheatre.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-tumblety-to-titus.html

Old is the New New

Speculation on highly obscure plays listed in the 1953-1960 hardcover edition of Wilson's Play Index:

http://theatrelouisville.org/jsh/8.html

The Magic Cloak of Oz

More Oz stuff: A silent film called The Magic Cloak of Oz on Voraxical Theatre and a piano roll of "My Little Maid of Oz" on Creeps Records:

http://creepsrecords.blogspot.com/2009/08/aeolian-piano-roll-my-little-maid-of-oz.html

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2009/08/magic-cloak-of-oz.html

Voodoo Video

JSH reminisces about Voodoo Video:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/08/voodoo-video.html

Radio from Another Time

The subject of this week's Suspension Of Disbelief is old radio dramas like Theatre Five and Black Mass:

http://theatrelouisville.org/jsh/7.html

And on Voraxical Theatre, it's Lights Out, The Hall of Fantasy, Dimension X, and X Minus One:

http://voraxica.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-radio-theatre-gems.html

The Editha Salomon Story

How a Kentucky girl with a vivid imagination became an international occult criminal:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/08/editha-salomon.html

Platinum 7x Vodka

On the nuances of fine and not so fine vodka:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2009/08/platinum-7x.html

The International Mystery Writers Festival

I'm surprised JSH hasn't entered something in this writers fest himself:

http://unusualkentucky.blogspot.com/2009/08/international-mystery-writers-festival.html

Alice Cooper in Monster Dog

Alice Cooper, a popular topic among JSH and crew, comes up again with this video from a z-grade flick called Monster Dog:

http://transylvaniagentlemen.blogspot.com/2009/08/identity-crisises.html

Shakespeare's Apocrypha

This week's Suspension of Disbelief column for Theatre Louisville deals with the apocryphal plays of William Shakespeare, ones that so-called experts refuse to accept.

http://theatrelouisville.org/jsh/6.html

http://theatrelouisville.org/jsh/disbelief.html