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Sally Marsh plays Lizzie
Website page for actress Sally Marsh, from the Cambridge theatre company Bawds, includes images of her playing Lizzie Borden in a production of Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations.
Haunted Decor
Haunted Decor offers this really amazing Lizzie Borden item. Borden Tombstone, measuring 36” H x 18” W x 2.5” D. “These lightweight rigid foam props will look right at home in your haunted house or halloween graveyard! Very realistic paint finishes will convince anyone that our Halloween props, Haunted house decorations, and Halloween Tombstonesare real!” […]
Fall River Hoedown from New Faces of 1954
I have had tons of requests to post this clip from New Faces of 1954. I used it in my talk on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture that I did at the Fall River Public Library on August 9th, 2006. This is Micheal Brown’s “Fall River Hoedown,” also known as “Lizzie Borden,” also known as […]
Stef’s Blog Round Up — August 24
DareToScare.com has a brief blurb about the Lizzie Borden B&B. Nice plug for the house. The same blog links to a site that I find much more interesting: The International Ghost Hunters Society, which shows one of those supposed ghost photos from 92 Second St.—-this time the spirit’s ectoplasm appearing on the outside of the […]
Shilling Shockers on DVD
On August 13, I posted on what I called “The BEST Lizzie Borden take off video I have ever seen!” Many have agreed with me. Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers produces quality work and I want to support them any way I can. I just got this email and wanted to share it with you: Hello […]
Is Lizzie Annoying?
Am I Annoying.com has a Lizzie Borden page. You can vote and decide, based on the stated reasons why and whynot one might find her “annoying.” If you go to the bottom of the page, it appears that Lizzie Borden is less annoying as the years go by. Her current annoyance rating is 47.96%.
In Lizzie’s Hand
Curious as to this title? Well, this post refers to a magic trick that you can purchase related to the Borden case. It is called In Lizzie’s Hand. Only $38! A Bizarre Magick Effect by Larry White and Bruce Kalver EFFECT: The performer explains that at a recent auction he purchased an old trunk, full […]
Lizzie Cartoon
From Tantrumpretzel.com: Snapshots from another world. There is a Lizzie cartoon there that I really like.
Lizzie Stuff for Sale
Capgun Cowgirl now has a storefront to sell her pretty amazing Lizzie Borden wearables. I purchased the pink LB bracelet and wore it during my talk last week in Fall River—some ladies in the room really wanted one of these! Kewl!
LizzieGator
Artist Noel Miller has produced a cute book titled Sophisticated Alligators: A Handbook of Reptilian Repartee (1995), in which she depicts famous people from history as alligators. As the dust jacket states, “Ms. Miller contends that each of us contains his or her own inner alligator — acknowledged or not.” I had ordered a copy […]
Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers
The BEST Lizzie Borden take off video I have ever seen! I showed it at my talk in Fall River and everybody loved it. Now you can love it too! Click here for news about Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers. What is so good about it, you ask? Well, for starters, Lizzie is finally in love. […]
Shop Lizzie Borden
In an ongoing series about original Lizzie Borden items you can purchase, I bring you le Magasin des Morts, a shop owned by Maryellen Skulski. I first found Maryellen through eBay, where she is known as morbidmaryellen. Her site boasts this: “Get the HIPPEST stuff on the web featuring Massachusetts’ favorite alleged AXE MURDERESS…Lizzie Borden!” […]
Lipstick Lizzie
Back in June, I blogged about a not too pretty Lizzie newspaper illustration that seemed to age her for us, making her, well, rather unattractive. I have since found a magazine illustration from PIC Magazine from 1938 that attempts to do the opposite: make Lizzie sexy. They added makeup, I guess, a little lipstick, and […]
Not Lizzie Borden
UPDATE: auction ended early on July 22. No other details than this from eBay: “The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale.” This just popped up on eBay, but don’t let the auction fool you. This is NOT Lizzie Borden of Fall River hatchet murder fame. It might […]
Collecting Lizzie
From the May 2005 NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) Newsletter (with photos!), Maggie Rioux, Systems Librarian for the MBLWHOI Library in Woods Hole, Mass., states, “I’ve been collecting Lizzie Bordeniana (is that a word?) since about 1981. When I first moved to Cape Cod in 1980 about the only thing I knew about Southeastern […]
Happy Birthday Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden would have been 146 years old today, July 19.
House of Hate, Art?
I never thought about the Samuels’ book Girl in the House of Hate as being a part of a series of lurid tales, but El Postino did on his blog Paranoia Strikes Deep. Wow, look at what he found! When you see them all in a row like that you really see the gratuitous and […]