The 2024 Charlie Chan Family Home Newsletter
Welcome to our 7th annual recap of happenings throughout the year at Webmaster Rush Glick’s website The Charlie Chan Family Home. Inside you’ll find: CLICK: THE 2024 ANNUAL CHARLIE CHAN FAMILY HOME NEWSLETTER.
Book Review: The Tangled String, A Charlie Chan Mystery by John L. Swann
I want to thank Author John L. Swann and Nicholas K. Burns Publishing, Utica New York, for the read ahead copy to Mr. Swann’s second Charlie Chan novella, The Tangled String. It was released November 25th, 2024 available wherever books are sold and just in time for Christmas. The story takes place in Boston, where…
Seasons Greetings with MAIL SCAMs: a txt msg, counterfeit stamps & a surprise package!
Oh, if they’d only devote this much effort into getting a haircut, a job and becoming a decent member of society. But like Forest told us, “stupid is as stupid does.” (Actually I think his momma always said that.) Once again the holidays approach. And those who do dastardly deeds, like the porch pirates, are…
Mental Health Awareness: Composer Oscar Levant & Charlie Chan at the Opera.
October is World Mental Health Awareness month; October 10th World Mental Health Day. This month’s post originated from discussion with Charlie Chan Family Home member, Michael Votta Jr. (aka: “Mike in D.C.” to the Chan Family Home clan.) Professor Votta, currently serves as Interim Director of The School of Music and Director of Bands, University…
Two “little red books” of aphorisms: one $250,000 the other $5.99!
Call me dense (I never was a history buff,) but it took me a few decades to realized why the book cover for the very first book of Charlie Chan aphorisms Quotations from Charlie Chan, January 1967, looks the way it does. It was purposely meant to mimic another prominent writing Quotations from Chairman Mao…
Today! We send Happy 140th B-day wishes to Ohio Author Earl Derr Biggers!
I’m sneaking in a extra blog this month as we reach a significant milestone in the world of Charlie Chan; celebrated Author Earl Derr Biggers’ 140th Birthday (August 26th, 1884!) Here are a few fun ways from my past blog archives to help us celebrate Charlie Chan Poppa’s birthday…TODAY! With Music: Cab Calloway’s 1940 hit,…
Oh No! Could it be his name was actually “Charles” and not “Charlie” Chan?
Happy 140th Birthday wishes to Earl Derr Biggers this month, August 26, 1884. OK, take a deep breath now and let it out slowly. If you are a serious Charlie Chan fan your initial reaction might be to pommel me with innuendos, barbs, insults and possibly a face slap or two. But wait! If only…
So was there ever a Charlie Chan PEZ dispenser?
Could it be? Was there really one? That is a question I can answer for you unequivocally, “No, there was never a Charlie Chan PEZ dispenser.” But why not? Let’s take a look at some of the PEZ dispensers over the years. Some within my own (sorry to admit this) bygone collection of 450+ dispensers…
B-Movies? Perhaps, but the Charlie Chan films sure bagged some star power!
They started as A-movies, original adaptations of the novels, when Fox Studios first produced them. However, Author Earl Derr Biggers only penned six Charlie Chan novels before his death. So after their fifth Chan film, Fox decided to take their detective around the world in B-movies; low budget films made in record time with little…
Get “schooled” in the land of Chan with this OLLI 5-week course at Univ. of Minnesota!
Where were you on the night of April 3rd, 2024 at 12:30PM? Well OK, that’s actually in the afternoon but I was trying to be melodramatic. However, if you were not at the University of Minnesota’s, St. Paul Campus, Magrath Library, Room 4, then you likely missed Len Freeman’s course, Charlie Chan and Friends. Yes…
Actor Sidney Toler’s 2-year sabbatical from Charlie Chan.
Happy Birthday Actor Sidney Toler (April 28th!) Most Chan film buffs are aware Actor Sidney Toler was the second successful actor to play Detective Charlie Chan. He continued the role following Actor Warner Oland’s untimely death, August 1938. Toler hit the ground running starting his debut in Charlie Chan in Honolulu 1939 making a total…
We finally have one! A Charlie Chan Pastiche true to Earl Derr Biggers original novels.
Here’s some exciting news for mystery buffs, who’ve longed for someone to dare follow up with a true Charlie Chan novel. A new mystery to carry on with Author Biggers’ storyline. We have it now in: Death, I Said: A Charlie Chan Mystery by John L. Swann” Nicholas K. Burns Publishing, NY, 2023 Both I,…
Valentine’s Day 1779 was not exactly a Bed of Roses for Discoverer Capt. James Cook.
If you know the history of Hawai’i like I do (OK, like the internet and me.) Then you’ll know that Captain James Kirk…OOPS, I mean Captain James Cook (hmm, I wonder) discovered and first named The Hawaiian Islands after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu (yes, the bloke who invented that delicious repast.) Hence,…
Happy 2024 & Year of the Dragon! Come join in as we celebrate 5-years in style!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! In the words of Nick Charles, The Thin Man Films, “Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” We have special reason to celebrate here at The Postman HQ and not just the New Year 2024 and Year of the Dragon (February 10th, 2024.) We’ve just completed five years…
The Postman on Holiday 