Hadn't intended to write about another hangman (accidental diptych), but this story may be more bonkers than the last one...
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New one up. Probably should be a more well-known story here...
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New column up at Zona Motel. Maybe my fave, so far. Contains over 40 links!
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It's a 1940s Barbara Stanwyck Christmas!
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A postwar comic book burning in Spencer. WV, and more...
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Throw the watches and see time fly...
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A family thing in time for Thanksgiving...
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If you've ever wondered where the Venn Diagram circles of “Frank Lloyd Wright” and “Domino's Pizza” overlap, have I got the post for you!
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The Venn diagram circles of Johnny Cash and Johnny Paycheck overlap locally here (and more).
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Drop a bad guy you actually love.
And for Hagman to pull this off after being ingrained in brains as Major Nelson is a feat as well.
I’d love to see a series of Bond short films by different directors like Aki Kaurismäki, Alice Rohrwacher or Wes Anderson.
Would love this. They do this in comics where an anthology would have different writers/artists take on a character.
It's like what Mike Leigh said his James Bond take would be: visiting his mother, having tea.
Thank you! And more...
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Another interesting fun aspect of consumerism...
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For the 4th, I wrote about an Australian filmmaker
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Goldfinger's Reprieves christopheroxley.substack.com/p/goldfinger...
BLAZING SADDLES (I'm wearing a poster-emblazoned t-shirt right now, in fact). He let me watch DIE HARD when I was 12, and then we rented & watched all the Bond movies from DR. NO to then seeing LICENSE TO KILL in the theater. So, clichéd examples for my age group, maybe, but I wouldn't trade 'em.
Cold-weather shot; both Jane and Henry are in wool coats; a marquee for ON THE BEACH is visible in the background
Just under the wire for Father's Day: Jane Fonda with father Henry Fonda, Times Square, 1959. Photograph by Leonard McCombe
Wishing Love and Mercy to the late, great Brian Wilson
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I've seen him perform live more than any other person or band, I'd wager. Just pure joy. What a genius. What a legend. May he rest in peace.
Losing Brian Wilson and Sly Stone the same week feels monumental, like when Bergman and Antonioni passed within a day of each other. #RIP
I have a new PROJECTIONIST column up over at Zona Motel... open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
Because of all the clippings, this one appears to be a longer read than it really is... but it's fascinating, if you don't know the story.
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While they decide whether or not Pete Hegseth violated the Espionage Act, this codebreaking mail-reading dude caused the government to amend it over 90 years ago...
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Just in time for the close of the anniversary of the Titanic disaster. This dude's life... wow.
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they're going to be really surprised when they find out this place is being run by apes now
