And as an extra bonus, this Sunday, a photo of the gorgeous Ava Gardner (yes, she’s one of my favorite actresses), probably a publicity still from Mogambo.
And I think it fits perfectly the style of Karavansara.
Cheat sheets
A different kind of media, today.
I chanced upon these Travel Cheat Sheets a few days back, and here’s the whole collection, as a handy Pinterest board, courtesy of Wandershare.
The information on each infographic seems useful enough – if not to travel the world, at least to bluff with friends at parties and to give a little color to stories.
I would take them with a grain of salt, anyway – I’m an Italian, and I have no idea why, in my country, you should not order a cappuccino in the afternoon (or anytime, really).
Go figure.
A.K.A.
Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O’Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, Charles Stoddard…
They were all Henry Kuttner, alone or together with his wife, C.L. Moore.
I always liked Kuttner’s work. And C.L. Moore’s.
Discovering their arm-long list of aliases was for me the start of a great treasure hunt.
Writing prompt: Second Hand Illustration
Ed Vebell illustration to “Loneliness Is Dangerous” by Harry Coren. Sunday Mirror Magazine, August 14, 1955
Tells a story, right?
Write it!
Pulp History – the Changeling Princess
As usual, history can be much wilder than pulp fiction.
Thinking of the Mysterious East, we often read stories of dragon ladies, of dangerous women and mysterious seductresses.
So, in the name of pulp history, consider, if you will, Yoshiko Kawashima, aka Jewel of the East or Eastern Jade.
For starters, her name was not Yoshiko Kawashima, but Aisin Gioro Xianyu, and she was a princess of Manchu origin – her father a lesser character in the Imperial Court at Beijing.
But when she was eight years old, her family sold her to a Japanese called Kawashima. She was, after all, just the fourteenth daughter.
Kawashima-san was an adventurer and a spy – and he thought that breeding a Chinese princess to become a tool of the Japanese empire might be a neat trick.
The girl’s life with Kawashima became an experiment in the thorough bending of a human mind.
It was probably more successful than Kawashima himself dreamed.
Continue reading
For fans of Old Time Radio
The Redjack Blog, Italy’s premiere resource on the Jack the Ripper murders, is presenting the classic Secrets of Scotland Yard radio show as a weekly free streaming program.
Check it out (and take a look at the blog, too – using the built-in translation tools).
When in Nepal…
Any adventurer worth their salt should know the basics…
Karavansara 