Be on guard. The Midnight Knives are afoot. They scritch, clanking along the cobbles in line, ever on the lookout for their next victim. What lo! Is this an unwary baker heading to task at a pre-dawn oven? The Midnight Knives arrange themselves in presentation mode and unfurl their banner. They sing: Good morning to […]
TENDER VOLES THE GREATEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN DISPLAYS RANCID ENTITLEMENT DARKLY WRY BOLDLY SKIPS WHERE OTHERS DARE NOT SLITHER A STUNNING COUNTERPOINT TO ANYTHING ETHICAL IN ITS CHEAP CONSTRUCT
Thinking over what gave me most pleasure in my childhood I should be inclined to place first and foremost, my hoop. From Agatha’s incredibly delightful autobiography.
Vilma played the kazoo better than anyone else in L.A. In fact, she taught kazoo. Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin were two of her pupils.
Silent movie star Vilma Banky, pictured here at a Pasadena garden party with Valentino lookalike Herb Flantz, was: a. linked romantically to Roman Link, a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. b. Miss Bronx Apple Cider in 1919. c. able to stand on tiptoe for hours,and often did. d. the unseen hand behind quite a few leveraged […]
The Saga of Katniss Everdeen, Conflicted Killing Machine
There is a steamboat in my head, If you remove it, I’ll be dead, So you had best just let it be, While I dance with my manatee.
Long considered extinct by her former business associates, the crafty ichthyosaur bided her time well north of Greenland in an ice cave of her own clever design. One day she would emerge, declare her claim to be sole owner of the portfolio, and assume all rights and honors theretofore to be spoken of or entered […]
Crime fighting diplomats from Argentina stormed the barricades at a downtown construction site earlier today and ate lunch on a stack of girders. Pork inspectors passing by were unharmed. Film at 11.
Event coordinator Alice Blant paces the length of the vast hangar making one final inspection of the 1000 hammocks. Alignment and spacing? Check. Cords properly tense? Check. Pillows plumped and placed perfectly? Check. Fringe on each hammock hanging with nary a tangle? Check. “All right, Blandings. Open the door!” shouts Alice Blant. Blandings manipulates the […]
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
