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| Why not be like Shirley and catch up on your reading this weekend? |
Since July 2013, I have been devoting as many Humpdays as possible to the career of writer-director Edward D. Wood, Jr. in a series I've dubbed "Ed Wood Wednesdays." Originally planning only to watch his movies in roughly chronological order, I have since greatly expanded the range and scope of the project and have commented on many facets of Ed's life and work. The project's been running for a while now, so it's possible you may have missed an article along the way. Well, here they all are in a convenient list form. Read them at your leisure... and don't necessarily shy away from the unfamiliar titles. Those are sometimes the most fascinating of all.
- Introduction to the series
- Week 1: The Early Years (1948-1953)
- Week 2: Glen or Glenda? (1953)/Jail Bait (1954)
- Week 3: Bride of the Monster (1955)/The Violent Years (1956)
- Week 4: Final Curtain (1957)/The Bride and the Beast (1958)
- Week 5: Killer in Drag (1963)
- Week 6: Death of a Transvestite (1967)
- Week 7: Devil Girls (1967)/Ed Wood's Devil Girls (1999)
- Week 8: Hollywood Rat Race (1998) plus Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan
- Week 9: Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (2001)
- Week 10: Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- Week 11: Night of the Ghouls (1959)
- Week 12: The Sinister Urge (1960)
- Week 13: Shotgun Wedding (1963)
- Week 14: Orgy of the Dead (1965)
- Week 15: Criswell Predicts! plus Dad Made Dirty Movies (2012)
- Week 16: For Love & Money (1967)
- Week 17: One Million AC/DC (1969)
- Week 18: Love Feast (1969) plus Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks (2013)
- Week 19: Take It Out In Trade: The Outtakes (1970/1995)
- Week 20: Venus Flytrap (1970)
- Week 21: Necromania (1971)
- Week 22: The Class Reunion (1972)
- Week 23: Drop Out Wife (1972)
- Week 24: The Snow Bunnies (1972)
- Week 25: The Cocktail Hostesses (1973)
- Week 26: Fugitive Girls (1974)
- Week 27: The Beach Bunnies (1976)
- Week 28: Hot Ice (1978)
- Week 29: Son of the Renegade (1953)
- Week 30: The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
- Week 31: Revenge of the Virgins (1959)
- Week 32: "Scare Tactics" (October 1992)
- Week 33: Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
- Week 34: Married Too Young (1962)
- Week 35: The Baron of Arizona (1950)
- Week 36: Wetbacks (1956)
- Week 37: Bloomer Girl (1972)
- Week 38: It Came from Hollywood (1982)
- Week 39: The Worst! (1994)
- Week 40: "The Secret Testimony of Miserable Souls" (2014)
- Week 41: Ed Wood: The Musical! (2014)
- Week 42: I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
- Week 43: The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1995)
- Week 44: An avalanche of Ed Wood!
- Week 45: The Vampire's Tomb (2001-2013)
- Week 46: The Undergraduate (1971)
- Week 47: Nympho Cycler (1971)
- Week 48: Rudolph Grey Presents: Short Films, Home Movies, and Other Miscellanea (2014)
- Week 49: Take It Out in Trade (1970)
- Week 50: Meatcleaver Massacre (1977)
- Week 51: The Wood Spooks, Tor Johnson and Vampira
- Week 52: Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (2014)
- Week 53: The Young Marrieds (1972)
- Week 54: Edward Ford (1978)
- Week 55: Glen or the Bride of the Night of the Plan 9 from Outer Space (2014)
- Week 56: "Howl of the Werewolf" (1973)
- Week 57: The Auction of Lot #3026 (2015)
- Week 58: Cult Movies magazine, No. 11 (1994) [part 1 of 2]
- Week 59: Cult Movies magazine, No. 11 (1994) [part 2 of 2]
- Week 60: The Lawless Rider (1954)
- Week 60.5: A roundup of Wood news!
- Week 61: Mrs. Stone's Thing (1970)
- Week 61.5: "[MISTED] Orgy of the Dead" (1998)
- Week 62: Swedish Erotica (ca. 1973)
- Week 63: The Only House In Town (1970)
- Week 64: Ed Wood, Jack Webb, and police procedurals
- Week 65: The Glen or Glenda Transcript
- Week 66: Ed Wood and the search for home
- Week 67: Revisiting The Sinister Urge (1960)
- Week 68: Jail Bait: Director's Cut (1994)
- Week 69: The hero's journey of Ed Wood (1994)
- Week 70: Jail Bait and the music of Hoyt Curtin
- Week 71: Some additions to my Ed Wood collection
- Week 72: The unsung bit players of Plan 9
- Week 73: The saga of Eddie and the Famous Monsters album
- Week 74: The Canned Film Festival (1986)
- Week 75: The Mocambo (1941-1958)
- Week 76: Johnny Duncan in Plan 9
- Week 77: An alternate version of Venus Flytrap
Greg Dziawer has largely taken over Ed Wood Wednesdays since October 2015, principally focusing on Ed's writing career in pornographic paperbacks and adult magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Of special interest to Greg is the question of which books and articles Ed actually wrote during this time period and which were written by others. These entries in the series are of particular value to collectors of vintage porn and experts on the career of Ed Wood. For the most part, Greg has divided his articles into various "orbits" and "odysseys." Enjoy.
The Wood Magazine Odyssey
The Wood Magazine Odyssey
- Part One: "The Responsibility Game"
- Part Two: "Captain Fellatio Hornblower"
- Part Three: Magazines from 1972*
- Part Four: Magazines from 1970-71*
- Part Five: Magazines from 1973*
- Part Six: Magazines from 1974*
- Part Seven: Magazines from 1975*
- Part Eight: The Case File on Libra Press
- Part Nine: "The Monogrammed Panties" and more
- Part Ten: "Married & In Love"
- Part Eleven: "The Legend of Washington York"
- Part Twelve: "Young And Proper"
- Part Thirteen: "How To Shoot A Home Movie"
- Part Fourteen: Gay Guys Book One
- Part Fifteen: "Marvin's Diary" and more
- Part Sixteen: Magazines from 1968-69*
- Part Seventeen: Ed's work for Swedish Erotica magazines
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) consist of indexed magazine titles from Calga, Pendulum, Gallery, SECS, and Edusex.
The Wood Paperback Odyssey
- Part One: Norman Bates' Male Wives
- Part Two: Dirk Malloy's Camera Action plus A Study of the Sexual Man, Book One
- Part Three: Sheldon Lorde's Savage Lover
- Part Four: The Adult Version of Dracula
- Part Five: Paging Dr. T.K. Peters
- Part Six: Practicing Peters
The Wood Collaborator Odyssey
- Part One: Malta
- Part Two: Sam Kopetzky
- Part Three: Charles D. Anderson
- Part Four: Phil Cambridge
- Part Five: Dick Trent
- Part Six: Dennis Rodriguez
- Part Seven: Valda Hansen
- Part Eight: Victor Most of California
- Part Nine: Valda Hansen's high school years
- Part Ten: Lyle Talbot
- Part Eleven: Bela Lugosi goes to rehab '
- Part Twelve: George Weiss and M. Merle Connell
- Part Thirteen: Jack Descent's memories of Ed Wood
- Part Fourteen: Ed's drinking buddy Bill Morey
- Part Fifteen: An Australian article about Vampira
- Part Sixteen: Ray "Crash" Corrigan
The Ed-Tribution Odyssey
The Wood Erotica Odyssey
The Wood/Dziawer Odyssey
- Part One: Greg's personal journey to Ed Wood
- Part Two: How Greg's articles are written
- Part Three: Chosen Paths
- Part Four: A neck scarf odyssey
- Part Five: Working with Jacques Descent
- Part Six: Conclusions after a year of studying the Wood loops
- Part Seven: A rare screening of The Young Marrieds
- Part Eight: Greg turns 50 and finds a blue panther
- Part Nine: The Violent Years' Joanne Cangi
The Wood Pseudonym Odyssey
- Part One: "Hollywood's 'Sin Inn'" by Pete La Roche
- Part Two: "Colonel Tim McCoy - Army Man, Movie Star" by Pete La Roche
The Wood Promo Odyssey
The Wood Musical Odyssey
The Wood Loop Odyssey
- Part One: The Only House In Town loops
- Part Two: Eve Orlon and Swedish Erotica
- Part Three: Ed Wood's 8mm Porn Loops
- Part Four: Hollywood Starlet
- Part Five: Color Classics Corporation
- Part Six: Ed's Wood, Volume II: More Lost Loops
- Part Seven: Prisoner Love Making (aka The Jailer)
- Part Eight: Girl on a Bike (1973)
- Part One: 1 Fountain Place
- Part Two: 35 Delano St.
- Part Three: 44 Conklin St. and the 1930 Census
- Part Four: Ed's career in mountain music
- Part Five: The wedding of Ed Wood's parents
- Part Six: The Sunshine Mountaineers
- Part One: Calga's My Boys (1971)
- Part Two: Tod's First Time (1972)
- Part Three: Editorials for Pendulum magazines
The Wood Loop Orbit
- Part One: Danish Films' Prudish Secretary
- Part Two: Bare Harbor (1974)
- Part Three: Some random Pendulum loops
- Part Four: Photo Layout (1976)
- Part Five: Fanny Up (1975-76)
- Part Six: Danish Film's Petite Fleur
- Part Seven: Cockcycle (1975)
- Part Eight: Pier Passion (1974)
- Part Nine: Loops from Blue Vanities #609 (1998)
- Part Ten: Tammy and the Doctor (1973)
- Part Eleven: Ping Pong Orgy (1973)
- Part Twelve: Sex & Magic (ca. 1970)
- Part Thirteen: Notorious Landlady (ca. 1974)
The Wood Set Decoration Odyssey
- Part One: Chinese Imperial Guardian Lions
- Part Two: The Kitchen Sink
- Part Three: Incest (1971)
- Part Four: Findings from The Devil's Sleep (1949)
- Part Five: The panther painting from Necromania (1971)
- Part Six: Bronze statues from Necromania and Take It Out In Trade
- Part Seven: Bed sheets from The Young Marrieds (1971) NEW!
The Glen or Glenda Odyssey
The Plan 9 Odyssey
- Part One: How Plan 9 became "the worst"
- Part Two: More about producer Hugh Thomas, Jr.
- Part Three: The Plan 9 video game (1992)
The Young Marrieds Odyssey
- Part One: "Loser of the week" Stu Nahan
- Part Two: The Young Marrieds on home video
- Part Three: Eduardo, a male model glimpsed in the film
- Part Four: Other uses of the term "young marrieds"
The Wood Nudie Odyssey
The Wood Ancestry Odyssey
- Part One: The family of Edward D. Wood, Sr.
- Part Two: Lillian C. Wood and the Cooties
- Part Three: Ed's uncle Burton Wood
The Wood Apprenticeship Odyssey
The Wood Photo Odyssey
The Woodologist Odyssey
Greg's Miscellaneous Articles
- About Operation: Redlight (1969)
- Bela' Lugosi's Letter to a Fan
- Advertising T.K. Peters
- The Wood Immortality Odyssey: Ed Wood's eulogy (1978)
- The Wood Trailer Odyssey, Part One: Bad, Bad Gang! and The Young Marrieds
- The Wood Drag Odyssey, Part One: Carlson Wade
- The Wood Halloween Odyssey: Bela on The Red Skelton Show
- Happy 92nd birthday to Ed Wood
- The Wood Winter Odyssey
- The Wood Preview Odyssey
- RIP Jacques Descent (1937-2018)
- The Wood Holiday Sampler
- A hot take on Take It Out in Trade (1970)
Thanks for keeping the series alive, Greg.
But there is much more Ed Wood-related content to be found on this blog. From October to December 2014, I wrote a series of articles reviewing each individual story in Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
- Introduction
- "Scream Your Bloody Head Off" (1972)
- "Hellfire" (1972)
- "No Atheists in the Grave" (1971)
- "To Kill a Saturday Night" (1971)
- "Blood Splatters Quickly" (1973)
- "Island Divorce" (1969)
- "Missionary (Position) Impossible" (1971)
- "Dracula Revisited" (1971)
- "The Night the Banshee Cried" (1971)
- "The Wave Off" (1971)
- "The Gory Details" (1972)
- "Just One Question" (1973)
- "I, Warlock" (1971)
- "Taking Off" (1971)
- "Sex Star" (1973)
- "Epitaph for the Village Drunk" (1973)
- "The Autograph" (1974)
- "Superfruit" (1971)
- "Flowers for Flame LeMarr" (1973)
- "Private Girl" (1975)
- "Breasts of the Chicken" (1972)
- "Never a Stupid Reflection" (1973)
- "Scene of the Crime" (1972)
- "In the Stony Lonesome" (1972)
- "Come Inn" (1971)
- "The Day the Mummy Returned" (1971)
- "Into My Grave" (1971)
- "2 X Double" (1973)
- "Craps" (1973)
- "Calamity Janes Loves Hosenose Kate Loves Cattle Anne" (1973)
- "Pray for Rain" (1972)
- "The Whorehouse Horror: A Touch of Terror" (1972)
- "Final Curtain" (1971)
Plus a few Ed Wood extras:
- And here I am, talking about Ed Wood on Monster Kid Radio
- Talking Ed Wood (1994) on the Disney, Indiana podcast
- The Eyes of Ed Wood/The Eyes of Stanley Kubrick
- A single by Paul Marco and Criswell
- A rare interview with One Million AC/DC director Ed DePriest
- Fancy schmancy new art book available
- Indiegogo campaign for Rick Tell's Ed Wood: The Musical!
- Douglas North investigates some of Eddie's missing films
- Here's a newly-minted trailer for Ed Wood:The Musical!
- The great Ed Wood auction of 2015 has ended
- A salute to Gregory Walcott, Plan 9's super-square
- The arrival of Lots #3028 and #3043
- Another new book (with a contribution by me, no less!)
- Chiller Theatre (1965) and Oh! Those Bells (1962)
- For no reason at all, a portrait of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
- Some "utterly stupid" fan art for The Revenge of Dr. X (1970)
- Ed, Red, Bela, and Slick (essay)
- The Unknown War of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (2017)
- To those we lost in 2017
- An outline of Ed Wood (1994)
- A smattering of Ed Wood fan art
- On Ed's 94th birthday, a State of the Union address
Media sightings of the Ed Wood Wednesdays project:
- New York Times article by Erik Piepenburg
- OutCentral: Nashville's LGBT Center
- Out and About Nashville
- X-Ray Spex: Will Pfeifer's pop culture blog
- Craig J. Clark Watches a Lot of Movies
- Daily Grindhouse
- Counter-Currents Publishing
- Six Degrees of Stoogeration
- Coffee With Jeff
- Will Sloan's Brilliant Thoughts
- Will Sloan's Brilliant Thoughts (again)
Happy reading, my dear friends.
