Born on this day – Jules Verne:

Jules Verne

Writer

February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905

Credits:

Books:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869); A Fantasy of Dr. Ox (1872); A Floating City (1871); Adrift in the Pacific (1888); Among the Cannibals (1867); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873); Beach Books Anthology (2023); Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (2018); Caesar Cascabel (1890); Captain Antifer (1894); Captain Grant's Children (1867); Carpathian Castle (2018); Child of the Cavern (1877); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Claudius Bombarnac (1892) Clovis Dardentor (1896); Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878); Doctor Ox and Other Stories (1874); Drama In Livonia (1904); Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon (1881); Facing The Flag (1896); Family Without A Name (1889); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) Foundling Mick (1893); From the Earth to the Moon (1865); Godfrey Morgan (1882); In Search Of The Castaways (1867); In the Year 2889 (1889); Invasion of the Sea (1905); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); Jules Verne Collection, 33 Works (2004); Keraban the Inflexible (1883) Master of the World (1904); Mathias Sandorf (1885); Mrs. Branican (1891); Mysterious Document (1867); North Against South (1887); Off On A Comet (1877); On the Track (1867); Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863); Propeller Island (1895); Robur the Conqueror (1886); Round The Moon (1869) Science Fiction Stories (1988); Sea Serpent (1901); Second Year Ashore (1940); Tales of the Restless Sea - Adventure Anthology (2023); The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864); The Archipelago On Fire (1884); The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007); The Begum's Fortune (1879) The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castle of the Carpathians (1892); The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908); The City in the Sahara (1905); The Demon of Cawnpore (2008); The Desert of Ice (1866); The English at the North Pole (1866); The Exploration of the World (1879); The Flight To France (1887); The Fur Country (1873); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Green Ray (1882) The Kip Brothers (1902); The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905); The Lottery Ticket (1885); The Mighty Orinoco (1898) The Mysterious Island (1874) The Mysterious Island (1874); The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy (1889); The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910) The Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery (1897); The Steam House (1880); The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875); The Survivors of the Jonathan (1897); The Tribulations of a Chinaman (1879); The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South (1884); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Their Island Home (1924); Tigers and Traitors (1976); Travel Scholarships (1903); Two Years' Vacation (1888); Underground City (1877); Village in the Treetops (1901); Will Of An Eccentric (1899); Yesterday And Tomorrow (1910).

Movies and television:

1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel (2005); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1905 / 1907 / 1916 / 1954 / 1972 / 1985 / 1991 / 1997 / 2004); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Video Game (1995); 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007); 5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977); 80 Days (2005 / 2014); 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1959); A dunai hajós (1974); A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977); To the conquest of the Pole (1912); A Sequence from Round the World in 80 Days (1955); Has Trip to the Moon (1902); Adventure at the Center of the Earth (2008); Year Impossible Voyage (1904); Ancient Aliens (2010); Around the World in 80 Days (1919 / 1956 / 1988 / 1989 / 1990 / 1999 / 2004 / 2021); Around the World in Eighty Days (1972–1973); Around the World with Bolek and Lolek (1977); Around the World with Willy Fog (1983); Capt. Grant's Family (1936); Captain Nemo (1975 / 1976); Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969); Cesta kolem sveta za 80 dní (1964); Chroniques de France (1967); Cinci saptamîni în balon (1966); Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997); Dante's Inferno (2025); Das U-Boat (2021); De la tierra a la luna (1969); De reis om de wereld in 80 Dagen (1957); Der Meister der Welt (1927); Die Reise um die Erde (1964) Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (1963); Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper (1995) Donauschiffer (1940); Dos años de vacaciones (1962) Drama in the Air (1904) Dvacet tisic mil pod morem / TV Movie (1980); Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993); El Faro del Fin del Mundo (2025); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fifteen Boys Adrift (1982); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) From the Earth to the Moon (1958 / 1979 / 2013); Ginga hyôryû Vifam: Kieta 12-nin (1985); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); History's Mysteries (1999); I riassuntini (2018); Iki sene mektep Tatili (1964); In Search of the Castaways (1914 / 1962); Inside the Earth (1910); Insula comorilor (1975) Invention for Destruction (1958); Invitation to travel (2021–2022); Jam (2009); Jorden runt på 80 dagar (1975) Josie and the Pussycats (1970); Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 / 1967–1969 / 1993 / 1996 / 1997 / 1999 / 2003 / 2008 / 2004 / 2017); Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (2010); The hunt for the meteor (1966); The Destiny of Jean Morénas (1916); The Carpathian Castle (1976); The Dr. Ox (2004); The Fabulous Voyage of Uncle Ernest (1999); The theatre of youth (1963); Youth Theatre: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1967); Around the World in 80 Days (1955 / 1979 / 1980); Around the world in 80 Days (1975); The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961); The Journey to the Moon (1986); The Extraordinary Adventures of Michael Strogoff (2004); The Indies black (1917); The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (2014); Extraordinary Journeys Jules Verne (2000–2001); The Mysterious Island (1973); The Mysterious Island of Uncle Ernest (2000); Lolita from Interstellar Space (2014); The organ fantasy (1968); Los diablos del mar (1982) Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant (2012); Master Zaccharius (1973); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1978); Master of the World (1961 / 1976); Mathias Sandorf (1921 / 1955 / 1963 / 1979–1980); Michael Strogoff (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1956 / 1926 / 1936 / 1944 / 1975–1977 / 1997); Michele Strogoff - Il corriere dello zar (1999) Morfi, todos a la mesa (2017); Mysterious Island (1951 / 1961 / 1995 / 1996 / 2005); Mysterious Planet (1982); Mystery on Monster Island (1981); Nadia as Tea Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II (1991) Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Specials (1991); Nautilus (2024); Nemo (1970); Novela (1966–1974); Off on a Comet (date?); On the Comet (1970); Pilgrim's Captain (1987); Piratii din Pacific (1975) Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan (1946) Robur Luftens Erobrer (1967); 'Round the World in 80 Days (1914); Round Vernian Vifam (1983–1984); Round Vernian Vifam 13 (1998); Round Vernian Vifam: 13 Meet Again (1984) Round Vernian Vifam: A Letter from Katue (1984); Round Vernian Vifam: Memory of Ms. Kate (1985); Shao ye de mo nan (1987); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961) Siesta Z (2017); Slomannaya podkova (1973) Strange Holiday (1970); Strogoff (1970); Tainstvennyy Ostrov (1941); Tajomstvo alchymistu Storitza (1991) Tales of Adventure (1952) The Black Indies (1964) The Carpathian Castle (1981) The Children of Captain Grant (1997); The Czar's Courier (1936) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Light at the Edge of the World (1971); The Lost 15 Boys: The Big Adventure on Pirates' Island (2013); The Magical World of Disney (1976–1978); The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931); The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981); The Mysterious Island (1929 / 1975); The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo (1973); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978); The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000); The Secret of Steel City (1979); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Southern Star (1969) The Story of Fifteen Boys (1987); The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963); The UnXplained (2020); Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1973); Two Years' Vacation (1974); Ukradená Vzducholod (1967); Un capitán de quince años (1973) One, back, very... responda Otra Vez (2004); Up to His Ears (1965); Utazás a Holdba (1974) V poiskakh kapitana Granta (1986); Valley of the Dragons (1961); Verne World / Video Game (1995); Viaje fantástico en globo (1975) Where Time Began (1977); Willy Fog 2 (1993–1994); Willy Fog in 20,000 leguas de viaje submarino (1995); Willy Fog as viaje al centro de la Tierra (1995); Wishbone (1995); Zacharius (1984).

Recommended reading - TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema (2022):

TCM Underground

50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema

By Millie De Chirico & Quatoyiah Murry.

Foreword by Patton Oswalt.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

Published by Running Press Adult.

Published 2022.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0762480009

ISBN-13: 978-0762480005

Description:

With knowledge, humor and an appropriately twisted perspective, [the authors] give readers a fuller realization of what late-night cinema offers. With a foreword by Patton Oswalt, this celebration of strangeness is well worth exploring. – Pop Culture Classics.

Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.

In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films – primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s – with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white photography throughout. Go along for the ride with new takes on crime films, including The Honeymoon Killers and The Harder They Come. Witness one-of-a-kind horror in Bill Gunn's landmark vampire film Ganja and Hess and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s infamous and indescribable Hausu. Absorb the boundary-pushing documentary-style trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which throws you into indelible moments in the punk and metal music scenes. And marvel at pure '80s oddities like Mac and Me and The Garbage Pail Kids.

From Possession to Polyester and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to Xanadu, no two films are alike in this compendium. Just sit back and prepare to be surprised, amused, and entertained by this celebration of the stars, filmmakers, and stories behind fifty of the most beguiling and unforgettable movies ever to hit the screen.

Rachel Carson, on writing:

Writing is largely a matter of application and hard work,

or writing endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible.

For me, that usually means many, many revisions.

- Rachel Carson.

Dogwood Blossoms, poem by George Marion McClellan:

Dogwood Blossoms

Poem by George Marion McClellan.

To dreamy languors and the violet mist
Of early Spring, the deep sequestered vale
Gives first her paling-blue Miamimist,
Where blithely pours the cuckoo’s annual tale
Of Summer promises and tender green,
Of a new life and beauty yet unseen.
The forest trees have yet a sighing mouth,
Where dying winds of March their branches swing,
While upward from the dreamy, sunny South,
A hand invisible leads on the Spring.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins
With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups,
Where to the warm and passing southern winds,
Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Soon everywhere, with glory through and through,
The fields will spread with every brilliant hue.
But high o’er all the early floral train,
Where softness all the arching sky resumes,
The dogwood dancing to the winds’ refrain,
In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms.

Recommended reading:

Poems by George Marion McClellan.

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Dogwood Blossom photographs by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Forest wind and birds

by freesound_community

from Pixabay.

Go Pens!

Friday, February 7, 2025.

Pittsburgh Penguins: 3. New York Rangers: 2.

YEAH!

GO PENS!

On this day in movie history - Victoria (2015):

Victoria

directed by Sebastian Schipper,

written by Sebastian Schipper, Olivia Neergaard-Holm and Eike Frederik Schulz,

was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on February 7, 2015.
Music by Nils Frahm.

Cast:

Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André Hennicke, Eike Frederik Schulz, Hans-Ulrich Laux, Lena Klenke, Philipp Kubitza, Martin Goeres, Andreas Schmitka, Jan Breustedt, David Micas, Timo Honsa, Bernd Weikert, Adolfo Assor, Ansgar Ballendat, Ambar de la Horra, Luca De Massis, Anne Düe, Daniel Fripan, Frederik Klaus, Nadja Laura Mijthab, Dennis Oestreich.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012):

Justified

Season 3. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Devil You Know.

Released February 7, 2012.

Directed by Dean Parisot.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley and Jon Worley.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Mykelti Williamson, Jeremy Davies, Adam Bartley, Ed Corbin, Clayne Crawford, Kaitlyn Dever, Demetrius Grosse, Damon Herriman, David Meunier, Kevin Rankin, Todd Stashwick, Neal McDonough, Brendan McCarthy. T.O.N.E-z, Ethan Wilde, Michael Raif Brizzolara, Sarah B. Downey, William Mulligan.