Don't…Mention…The….war

Earl Anthony's haircut was more Midwestern than that.

Given Hollywood, they'd probably become hookers instead of bank robbers.

Arkin has looked old for a long time. He acted very creaky in Glengarry Glen Ross. I mean that in a good way. And that was what, 20 years ago?

Dubstep! It's the ska of the teens!

You my friend are a lucky man.

Verified. My cousin's wife, who lives in rural Oregon and home schooled her daughters, sent many posts about this during the election, and she was dead serious. Neither of her daughters speak to her now, the result of them finding out how good their home schooling was after they went to college.

Christ, his nickname is slippin Jimmy! He's a complex, likable character, but he just went from short con to long.

Denzel was drunk and coked up and flew a plane, upside down, to save passengers' lives! And got away with it!

Maybe the collars will raise up and attack him some day.

So Don Cherry wasn't right about the Swedes? Just to be clear, I can't stand Don Cherry.

Cotten's nervously grinning and "casually" wrapping his arm around the post during that speech was inspired.

Her "oh I don't know, maybe I was having a fugue state" retort to WW gave her a lifetime pass from me.

I've personally worked at a couple of places that reminded me of Levy Pants-places where the original owner was long gone, and the succeeding owners were letting the place start a long slow decline.

I'm glad that Sean shares the Ignatius love. He's such a well-drawn character. John Kennedy Toole wrote dialects so well, which for a novel based in New Orleans, is kind of important. And going to grad school gave him the pompous scholar chops.

I picture old Karl taking his glasses off​ and pausing just before the "I was…Right on the money" quip.

The Raiders moving from Oakland to Vegas is a big thing here in the Bay Area. I heard Amy Trask being interviewed yesterday on the radio. She had this businessman "say nothing with as many big words as possible" down to a science. Anybody who has worked with top brass knows what a terrible idea a businessman president…

The description of that knife fight in the shower is horrifying. IIRC Loeb was trying to keep his guts from falling out at the end.

The book Bloodletters and Badmen, a fantastic book written by Chicagoan Jay Robert Nash, has a great entry for Holmes/Mudgett. Nash has a very readable, distinctive style. My favorite story in there is about Terrible Tommy O'Connor, for whom the Cook County jail kept its gallows for something like 40 years, just in…

I just watched The Bloody Brood, a 1960 public domain movie that stars Peter Falk. It's odd -a Canadian film that fails at depicting the Beatnik world-but they do a thrill killing that was also based on L&L. It also has a stuttering protagonist who isn't played for laughs. As somebody who has been plagued with this, I…