What did Salvadore Dali’s Alice in Wonderland look like? “You know what the choices are in this country? Paper or plastic? Aisle or window? Smoking or non-smoking? Those are your real choices.” Colt 1911: One Hundred Years of Service. “It’s … Continue reading
First, some bragging. It’s been a very good week in my mailbox. I got my X-mas present from M.A. Littler: his film noir, The Road To Nod. I haven’t seen it yet, but can’t wait. Just as excited about the … Continue reading
“My favorite melodramatic theme: the harried anarchist, a wounded wolf, struggling toward the green hills, or the black-white alpine mountains, or the purple-golden desert range and liberty. Will he make it? Or will the FBI shoot him down on the … Continue reading
My last quote from 2666. This spoken by a French writer who brings Benno von Archimboldi, the German novelist at the heart of the novel, to “a house for the vanished writers of Europe, a place of refuge” where Archimboldi … Continue reading
I’ve been mostly offline for the past four or five days, so I’m gonna take a page from Charlie Stella and take all of what I’ve been meaning to comment on, stick it in a paper sack, and light it … Continue reading
In the Whitmer household, any of us, age 5 to 39, might break out singing this at any moment. “She [Jacqueline Kennedy] tells Schlesinger, when the subject of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights is raised, that she … Continue reading
The remastered deluxe version of the album we named the book after will be available on Tuesday. Per the Wall Street Journal. This remastered album captures the harmonies of the Alabama siblings (Charlie low, Ira high) at their peak, along … Continue reading
“The sudden scarcity of jobs in the early 1930s forced a huge number of men to hit the road. Certainly some coins were carved to fill the idle hours. More importantly, a ‘knight of the road,’ with no regular source … Continue reading
I meant to post this a long time ago, but back on October 3 CRIMINALELEMENT.COM posted a great story from Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail. It’s written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, translated by Andrea Gibbons. Bizco Padilla … Continue reading
Art by Vince Larue, text by Barry Graham.
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