National Bow Tie Day

my piece
"Gymnast of Inertia"
(1992)

the intersection of cinema & literary histories

my friend Gary was able to sell some of my stuff on ebay.

inc this Michael Keaton Batman bank with cereal that Henry Van Dyke gave me years ago:

I'm back AGAIN

apparently I needed a new operating system.  don't even know what that is.

here we go again

had my Mac back for a day before it wdn't boot again. neighbor Phil was going to take me back to Dotfoil today but unbelievably they're closed the entire weekend.

I'm pissd......

Mae Clarke Day

so sez TCM . . . .

& once again here's the picture I took of her years ago in Beverly Hills

at the opera

wonderful visit from Regina

I'm back

my hard drive was corruptd

"Washing Marbles"

these are the marbles I wrote abt in my 1998 book On the Blue Swing.

Agnar Mykle (1915-1994)

today is the centennial of one of Norway's best known novelists.

I confess that it's been so long since I read his Song of the Red Ruby that I don't remember it at all.  but I do recall having great regard for it while I was in high school.  perhaps not quite as much regard as I had for Prokosch's The Asiatics.  but they were both provocative works for a young man.

so when I think of him on this day I'm also thinking of the young me.

birthdays

today is Lucy's.

also Andy Warhol's.

Mom had both of their autographs in her collection.

60 years ago

my friend Tom & I saw Marilyn in "There's No Business Like Show Business."

today is both Tom's birthday & Marilyn's death day.

so I'm remembering them both.

it can finally be reveald

my one-time profession: