Union Station at 75: Still in the Hearts of L.A. & the Movies
New York City’s Penn Station may be larger, certainly busier, and Chicago’s version the midway hub for rail traffic spreading out to all parts of the U.S.,…
Friday Forgotten Song: Still in Love by Angela Bofill
I remain a fan of the beautiful Bronx native and doleful singer, Angela Bofill. Another forgotten song post a couple of years back hopefully attests to…
Misery Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I are back to close out April with another movie title that began its life between a book cover for…
TMT: Misery’s Return
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. The following memory download came by way of this…
Friday Song & Cover: Crying by Roy, Glen, Don, K.D. y Rebekha
My hometown colleague Sal Gomez reminded me that the great Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) celebrated a birthday this week. He’d have been 78, so I…
I Never Turn Down Such Things – The Versatile Blogger Award
If there’s anything I’m loathed to do, it’s turn down an award. And if it comes from the blogging community, one I spend a number of waking hours upon, especially…
Best Album Covers: Undercurrent
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
The Third Man
Originally posted on Riding the High Country:
Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years…
Best Album Covers: Everyone Is A Door
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Guest Post » Consummate Character Actor: Saul Rubinek
Greetings all and sundry! Having taken a brief while experiencing weather change from arctic to damp, drizzly wet and cold to the first hints of spring.…
Ken Bruen’s Purgatory
As someone who has come to enjoy crime fiction, it’s no surprise I have my favorites. Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, among the ageless.…
Reprise » Muy Bruen
Some years ago, with encouragement by my friends Jen Forbus and Corey Wilde, I finally took the plunge and dived into a novel by author Ken Bruen. I reserve the right to insert…
Scene & Song: Jackie Brown and Strawberry Letter 23
There’s a reason the above movie poster is affixed to my closet door. Well, two actually. The second is it covers a crack on said door…
Spring Fling: Year of Bests – 2014
A couple of years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online reading…
The Name of the Rose Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I rejoin for another movie title that began its life between a book cover for our parallel post series.…
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Song: Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
There are songs, if I happen to catch them on the radio or the web, that can instantly transport me back to another time. To begin…
Reprise » Music & Art: Tatooine
Just so readers don’t get the idea that I’m all about the old and forgotten music, I submit the following:
To the one who reached down
There’s a classic Bill Cosby routine from my childhood that’s worth a listen. $75 Car. It contains this prophetic piece of dialogue I’ve remembered to this day:…
Reblogged » Jackie Brown Movie Review & Film Summary (1997) | Roger Ebert
Remembering why I loved to read Roger Ebert’s reviews, whether I agreed with him or not. And when I did, and it’s for one of my favorite films, Jackie Brown, it just doesn’t get a better.
Reprise » In Tight Places
I don’t know at what age I realized it — nor what spurred or even caused it — but I suffer from the irrational fear of…
It Rains... You Get Wet 