Spitball Army

Card is titled:  “Birthplace of Will Rogers, 12 Miles Northwest of Claremore, Okla.”

Image via the Oklahoma News Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A Genuine Curteich-Chicago “C.T. American Art” post card.

If you ever wondered what David Lynch’s take on the Super Bowl might be - what his filmmaker’s eye might make of it - wonder no longer.  Andrew Bouvé has imagined the annual football event through the creative lenses of five cinematic auteurs: Quentin Tarantino, the aforementioned Mr. Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog.

The clip representing Tarantino is a riff on his Kill Bill mix of hyper-violence and anime; the Lynch clip seems enamored of the director’s fascination of randomness and backwardness; Anderson’s is storybooklike and musical; Godard here seems to take cues from his Pierrot le Fou (or a number of others, but I just re-watched Pierrot recently, so it’s in my head) with aged black-and-white footage, a wacky voice-over and an odd cameo by Kirk Douglas; Herzog’s narration from his Grizzly Man documentary is used as narration of a game featuring the Chicago Bears.  Even if you’re not familiar with the directors’ styles, there is plenty to enjoy here.

Oh, and GEAUX SAINTS!

“Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad,” from What Up, Dog? (1988) by Was (Not Was)

Card is titled:  “Skyscrapers, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.”

Published by Hy-Grade School, Supply Co., Oklahoma City.

Today’s fun spam comment comes to spitballarmy.com courtesy of a userbot going by the name of “Refinance and Mortgage.”  Here it is:

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BZZZT! Wake. Teeth. Cats. Swim. Tea. News. Morning constitutional. Bathe. Clothes. Keys. Work. Desk. Sit. Q u i e t.

Card is titled:  “World’s Highest Double-Track Railroad Bridge.”

Printed on back of postcard:

Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge across the Des Moines River Valley between Boone and Ogden, Iowa.  “The World’s Highest Double Track Railroad Bridge.”

Printed by Dunlop-Henline Co., North Platte, Nebraska.  Plastichrome by Colourpicture, Boston, Massachusetts 02130.

He walked the grocery store aisles, office badge hanging at his chest by a lanyard, drawing stares as if he were amply mammaried.

His elderly cat moans from the center of the room. It’s Kitty Alzheimer’s, the Vet says. You just need to remind her where she is.

Card is titled:  “The World’s Finest and Whitest Sand Beach on Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola Beach, Fla. and Casino.”