Tag Archives: flivvers

Rediscovered: Further FLIVVERing from Carroll John Daly

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Don

Man, I don’t even have to LOOK for evidence, it just rolls in like the sea. You may recall that in The Great Flivver War of 2015 I found an example of Black Mask great Carroll John Daly using the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: FLIVVER GAME (!!!)

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Don

Operatives of the Mean Streets scour the country, looking for clews. I know it. I trust you know it. Agent Paul Herman just sent in a report after he “went to a collectible ephemera show in Hartford last weekend.” Naturally, … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Where Are the Words of the Week of Yesteryear?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Don

When I got up this morning to view the solar eclipse through a spaghetti strainer (not the opening words I ever imagined for a blog post), I was happy to see that my eBook LitCrit MegaPack on Texas writer Robert … Continue reading →

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VIKING SHIP: The Robert E. Howard VEHICLE OF THE WEEK

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Don

The last time I covered a Robert E. Howard vehicle, if you recall, it was in the form of the Model T Ford, a.k.a. the flivver. Got a whole series of posts out of that one, if you want to … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Piloting a FLIVVER

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Don

Surfing through Bill Crider’s blog I spotted an article that pertains to our recent topic of flivvers — in which an auto reporter gets to shoot around in a Model T for about three minutes. Fun stuff. Three pedals, none … Continue reading →

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FLIVVER: The Robert E. Howard WORD FOR 2015

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Don

Our Occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno was surfing the web, checking on info on old time boxing, and stumbled across a great little article on cars and F. Scott Fitzgerald — with a nice section on flivvers. As Brian says, … Continue reading →

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FLIVVER: The Robert E. Howard WORD OF THE YEAR

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Don

From my first published review in Nyctalops in 1974, I have now spent four decades defending the literary legacy of Robert E. Howard — ironically enough, his work as often needs defense from the very people who claim to be … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Race Williams Lamps a Flivver

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Don

How about another volley in my Great Flivver War of 2015 against the dummy dumb dumbos in Robert E. Howard fandom who don’t know that a flivver is a Ford (and usually a Model T Ford)? As I told them, I have many … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Academic Wankery” and the Rise of the Uninformed

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Don

Image above: Howardian academics confronted with a Deconstructionist Debacle — image itself, a Footnote to the Great Flivver War of 2015 (academics love their footnotes, and this pic precisely captures my view of academics and their apparatus). While of course I intend … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Ford — The Flivver King!

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Don

Bio Month is rocketing to a finish. Sometime today Nathan Ward is supposed to hit town. His appearance in Mechanics’ Library tomorrow is sold out (but he is dropping into a few bookshops to sign store stock, if you really want an … Continue reading →

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