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Thank you for visiting my website. You'll find information about me and my activities/social media here. If you came here looking for the actor Richard Grove , you've found him. For some crazy reason, I chose to use Richard as my first name while working as an actor in Hollywood. I have a separate post devoted to Richard Grove's acting career.  At present, I am producing a podcast about paperbacks called " The Paperback Show " and participating in a podcast about machinima (3D movies made within video games) called " And Now For Something Completely Machinima ".  I am also an online bookseller  on  eBay  and Etsy under the name " Grove Used Books " . In addition to books, I also sell collectibles, DVDs, and comic books.  Lastly, I have social media pages on Instagram and Facebook . My Flickr page contains all of my found photographs and photos I've taken over the years.  You'll find more detailed info on each of these activities in se...
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George Cates' Polynesian Percussion LP

Archive.org has a great library of LP/vinyl recordings. While browsing through the library, I came across the personal collection of Donald R. Snow , which was donated to the archive by his family. There are 182 vinyl records in the collection, primarily jazz and pop. One of my favorites is George Cates's Polynesian Percussion It was released in 1961 and has 12 great tracks of what I call Tiki music. Here is the album cover and  an embedded audio player for the whole album T  
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Pocket Books "Book-O-Mat" Paperback Vending Machine

  Early in the paperback revolution (started in 1939), Pocket Books decided to try a paperback book vending machine. 50 paperback books for a quarter each. It was an interesting idea, but it failed in the end because readers wanted to actually handle and look at the books they were buying. Unlike candy or coffee, which is uniform in content, books vary by plot, genre and cover art.  According to this article , two years after the first Book-O-Mat was released, an updated version was created by Rock Ola, a company that specialized in slot machines and juke boxes. Apparently, it failed as well. However, it looked like a much better design than the original, since you could actually see the covers of the paperbacks
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Angine de Poitrine and their DADA beats

More info on this remarkable duo here
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Dimension X was a groundbreaking science fiction anthology series that aired on NBC from April 8, 1950, to September 29, 1951. It is celebrated as one of the first radio programs to treat science fiction as a serious, adult-oriented genre rather than "juvenile" space adventures like Buck Rogers . Format : Half-hour episodes featuring standalone stories of futuristic technology, space exploration, and time travel. Narrator : The series was famously opened by Norman Rose , whose deep voice intoned: "Adventures in time and space, told in future tense... Dimension X!" over a haunting echo and a slow-pounding bass drum. Authors : The show gained instant credibility by adapting stories from the era's leading sci-fi writers, including Ray Bradbury , Isaac Asimov , Robert Heinlein , Kurt Vonnegut , and Robert Bloch . Successor : It was the direct precursor to the even more famous series X Minus One (1955–1958), which recycled many of the same scripts and actors. Not...
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Tom Adam's Agatha Christie Cover Art

  Tom Adams designed a whole series of Agatha Christie covers for Fontana Books back in the 70s. His collage method featured clues from the novel. He also added a level of gruesomeness to the covers that isn't often shown in other designs for her novels.  More on Tom Adams here.
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Samurai Desktop

 I love samurai movies. There's something about their depiction men and women in nature and stillness that just thrills me. The Zatoichi Series (Blind Swordsman) is probably my favorite, but I'm in love with all of them, really.   I've collected screen caps from dozens of samurai films over the years. And thought I'd share them with you. Put them together as a collection in a folder and make them your Desktop pix for a month or so.  You can download the 20+ images here And here are few samples:
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