Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What a hokey, impractical idea!

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I was completely gobsmacked - though perhaps I shouldn't have been - when I found this tidbit on the Turner Classics site. Along w...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Covers

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Just kind of a blah day, Christmas coming at me like a freight train (though the actual day is usually quite wonderful - so wh...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Forever young

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At dawn my lover comes to me and tells me of her dreams With no attempt to shovel the glimpse into the ditch of what each one means. ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Christmas gifs: cookies that fly!

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.Cement cookies and other harbingers of the season

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After re-reading yesterday's cricket rant (and it truly was a rant, but wasn't it fun? For me, maybe), I felt I needed something...
Friday, November 22, 2013

By Jiminy - it's a fake!

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Y'know, it strikes me, when it strikes me at all, that Dorothy Parker was right when she wrote,  "this living, this living, t...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

It's the Black Bottom!

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Chairman Mouse

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Painted dolls, Harold Lloyd and other miracles

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OK, children: who do you think this is? In light of what I posted yesterday, rare photos of Harold Lloyd in his Mack Se...

His face at first just ghostly (or, the unknown Harold Lloyd)

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In HER PAINTED HERO, Lloyd plays a minister who arrives at a mansion (in reality A.G. Schlosser’s Castle San Souci, t...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Gates of Eden

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Mark Brown , arts correspondent The Guardian , Tuesday 24 September 2013 16.13 BST Bob Dylan works on one of his iron gates, wh...