Spitball Army

A 1944 South Seas Christmas brings gifts of beer, cigars and spearmint Wrigley’s. The soldiers celebrate with an Aqua Velva toast.

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Card is titled: “Post Office, Charleston, S.C. 4A-H1400.”

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Approximate playing time: 74 minutes.

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She adds more white stuff, stirs, adds more. Result: six bowls of thin, sweet chili. Powdered sugar looks a lot like corn starch.

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Her geometric ‘fro is red, but not redhead. Neon cherry-plum, almost purple. It clashes with her mango lip gloss and ebony skin.

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A woodpecker is harvesting amid the rush of humans escaping the coming snow. Its bugs under bark; our bread and milk.

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Click on the images to see a larger view. New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) is the third in the film series featuring Shintaru Katso as the wandering blind masseur. Zatoichi is also a skilled swordsman with a violent past. This is the first Zatoichi installment filmed in color. The IMDb page for this film can […]

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I received my long- and eagerly-awaited package from Criterion today: an original sketch by artist Jason Polan, of one of my past Criterion Collection purchases.  The subject of the drawing was to be a surprise and, happily, it was of a film I am fond of -> Stanley Donen’s 1963 thriller Charade, a classic Hollywood film starring […]

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