Born on this day – Frank Gruber:

Frank Gruber

Writer

February 2, 1904 – December 9, 1969

Credits:

Beagle Scented Murder (1946); Billy the Kid (1957); Bitter Sage (1954); Bitter Sage and the Bushwhackers (1984); Black Cat Weekly #98 (2023); Brass Knuckles (1966); Bridge of Sand (1963); Broken Lance (1949); Brothers of Silence (1962); Buffalo Grass aka The Big Land (1956); Bugles West (1961); Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense (1999); Fall-Guy for a Killer aka The Yellow Overcoat (1942); Fighting Man (1948); Fort Starvation (1953); Fourth Postman / Among Those Absent / Lock and the Key (1948); Gunsight (1953); Horatio Alger, Jr (1961); Johnny Vengeance (1954); Little Hercules (1965); Lonesome River (1957); Market for Murder (1947); Missing Widow / Scarlet Feather / I Want to Go Home (1948); Murder '97 (1948); Outlaw (1941); Peace Marshal (1957); Quantrell's Raider / Town Tamer (1984); Quantrell's Raiders (1953); Ride to Hell (1955); Ride to Hell / Lonesome River (1983); Run, Fool, Run aka The Lock and the Key (1948); Simon Lash: Private Detective (1945); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); Swing Low, Swing Dead (1964); Tales of Terror (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); The Books of Horatio Alger, Jr (1948); The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (1965); The Buffalo Box (1942); The Bushwhackers (1959); The Corpse Moved Upstairs (1964); The Curly Wolf (1969); The Dawn Riders (1968); The Etruscan Bull (1969); The Fourth Letter (1947); The French Key aka The French Key Mystery (1940); The Gift Horse (1942); The Gold Gap (1968); The Greek Affair (1965); The Highwayman (1955); The Honest Dealer aka Double Dealer (1947); The Hungry Dog Murders aka Die Like a Dog (1941); The Laughing Fox (1943); The Leather Duke aka A Job of Murder (1950); The Limping Goose aka Murder One (1955); The Lone Gunhawk aka Smoky Road (1949); The Lonesome Badger aka Mood for Murder (1954); The Man From Missouri (1956); The Marshal (1958); The Mighty Blockhead (1945); The Navy Colt (1941); The Pulp Jungle (1967); The Scarlet Feather (1948); The Silver Jackass (1947); The Silver Tombstone Mystery (1948); The Spanish Prisoner (1969); The Talking Clock (1944); The Thirteenth Floor (1948); The Twilight Man (1967); The Whispering Master (1956); This Gun Is Still (1967); Town Tamer (1957); Twenty Plus Two (1961); Wanted (1971); Zane Grey (1928).

Born on this day – Casey Bill Weldon:

Casey Bill Weldon

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 2, 1901 – September 28, 1972

Born on this day – Walter Vinson:

Walter Vinson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975

Born on this day – Frank Lloyd:

Frank Lloyd

Director

Actor

Writer

Producer

February 2, 1886 – August 10, 1960

Credits:

A Double Deal in Pork (1915); A Page from Life (1914); A Passport to Hell (1932); A Prince of Bavaria (1914); A Tale of Two Cities (1917); A Tale of Two Worlds (1921);  A Voice in the Dark (1921); According to Value (1915); Adoration (1928); Air Pattern - Pacific (1944); American Methods (1917); An Arrangement with Fate (1915); An International Marriage (1916); As the Wind Blows (1914); Ashes of Vengeance (1923); Berkeley Square (1933); Billie's Baby (1915); Black Oxen (1923); Blood on the Sun (1945); By Radium's Rays (1914); Captain Jenny, S.A. (1914); Captain Kidd (1913); Cavalcade (1933); Children of Divorce (1927); Circle 17 (1914); Damon and Pythias (1914); Dangers of the Veldt (1914); Dark Streets (1929); David Garrick (1916); Dr. Mason's Temptation (1915); Drag (1929); East Lynne (1931); Eleven to One (1915); Fate's Alibi (1915); For Freedom (1918); For His Superior's Honor (1915); For the Freedom of Cuba (1914); Forever and a Day (1943); From the Shadows (1915); Her Husband's Secret (1925); His Captive (1915); His Extra Bit (1918); His Last Serenade (1915); His Last Trick (1915); Hoopla (1933); If I Were King (1938); In the Grasp of the Law (1915); Invisible Agent (1942); Jane (1915); Kid Regan's Hands (1914); Les Misérables (1917); Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Life's Furrow (1915); Lilac Time (1928); Little Mr. Fixer (1915); Madame la Presidente (1916); Madame X (1920); Maid of Salem (1937); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); Nature's Triumph (1915); Oliver Twist (1922); On Suspicion (1914); On the Rio Grande (1914); On the Verge of War (1914); $100,000 (1915); One of the Bravest (1914); Paternal Love (1915); Pawns of Fate (1915); Pitfalls of a Big City (1919); Prowlers of the Wild (1914); Riders of the Purple Sage (1918); Roads of Destiny (1921); Rulers of the Sea (1939); Saboteur (1942); Servants' Entrance (1934); Shadows of Life (1913); Sins of Her Parent (1916); Son of the Gods (1930); Stolen Glory (1914); 10,000 Dollars (1915); The Age for Love (1931); The Bay of Seven Isles (1915); The Black Box (1915); The Blindness of Divorce (1918); The Buccaneers (1913); The Call of the Cumberlands (1916); The Chorus Girl's Thanksgiving (1914); The Code of Marcia Gray (1916); The Dead End (1914); The Deadline (1914); The Divine Lady (1928); The Eagle of the Sea (1926); The Eternal Flame (1922); The Feud (1914); The Firebugs (1913); The Foreman of the Jury (1913); The Gentleman from Indiana (1915); The Great Lover (1920); The Grim Comedian (1921); The Heart of a Lion (1917); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Intrigue (1916); The Invisible Power (1921); The Kingdom of Love (1917); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Lash (1930); The Last Bomb (1945); The Last Command (1955); The Law of His Kind (1914); The Link That Binds (1914); The Little Girl of the Attic (1915); The Loves of Letty (1919); The Madonna of the Slums (1913); The Making of Maddalena (1916); The Man from Lost River (1921); The Man Hunter (1919); The Mexican's Last Raid (1914); The Opened Shutters (1914); The Pinch (1915); The Price of Silence (1917); The Prophet of the Hills (1915); The Rainbow Trail (1918); The Reform Candidate (1915); The Right of Way (1930); The Sea Hawk (1924); The Shanghai Story (1954); The She Wolf (1913); The Silent Watcher (1924); The Silver Horde (1920); The Sin Flood (1922); The Sob Sister (1914); The Source of Happiness (1915); The Splendid Road (1925); The Spoilers (1942); The Spy (1914); The Stronger Love (1916); The Temptation of Edwin Swayne (1915); The Test (1914); The Toll of Youth (1915); The Tongues of Men (1916); The Vagabond (1914); The Voice from the Minaret (1923); The Way of All Men (1930); The Wise Guy (1926); The Woman in Black (1914); The Woman in Room 13 (1920); The World and Its Woman (1919); The World and the Woman (1916); Their Golden Wedding (1915); This Woman Is Mine (1941); Through the Flames (1914); To Redeem a Value (1915); To Redeem an Oath (1915); Traffic in Babies (1914); Trickery (1915); True Blue (1918); Under the Black Flag (1913); Under Two Flags (1936); United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918); Unjustly Accused (1914); Weary River (1929); Wells Fargo (1937); When a Man Sees Red (1917); When the Spider Tore Loose (1915); Winds of Chance (1925); Within the Law (1923); Wolves of Society (1915); Won in the Clouds (1914); Young Nowheres (1929).

Naomi Shihab Nye, on reading:

I love the solitude of reading.

I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

- Naomi Shihab Nye.

Happy Groundhog Day:

Groundhog Day - February 2:

On this day in music history - Epic Women - The Shero's Journey (2022):

Epic Women - The Shero's Journey

released February 1, 2022.

Artists featured on this album:

Aeralie Brighton, Alexa Ray, Axis, Celica Soldream, Emanate Music (Donna Gibbons), Felicia Farerre, Iris Wallner, Jennifer Thomas, Julie Elven, Lydia Davies, Sophy Purnell, The Rogue Pianist (Kimberly StarKey), Zefora Alderman.

Track list:

Miracle of Life; The Adventurer; Facing the Void; Oakenheart; Crossing the Threshold; Vajra Hero; Approach to the Inmost Cave; The Ordeal; The Light Within; Shooting Stars; Emergence; Bridge Between Suns.