Spitball Army

Card is titled: “Forest Giants of California.”

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from the Wikipedia page for the film: Diamonds of the Night (Czech: Démanty noci) is a Czech 1964 film about two boys on the run from a train taking them to a concentration camp. It was director Jan Nemec’s first full-length feature film. Diamonds of the Night begins with two young men fleeing from a […]

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I came across an old post (written four-plus years ago, so only old in a relative sense) in which I had constructed a musical playlist to mirror a trip through the South. I couldn’t even recall writing it. Perhaps that’s why I used the word ‘old.’ It followed an imagined road trip out of the […]

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Card is untitled on its front.

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A very young Burt Lancaster gets cocky and mixed-up with some real tough guys in beautiful black & white post-War Los Angeles. And all because of some dame. [Click through on any of the images above to get a full-blown screen shot.]  

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A rare visit today to the Birmingham Barnes & Noble (by virtue of being near my doctor’s office) was cut short due to the introduction of St. Paul and the Broken Bones on their sound system. I couldn’t get out of there quickly enough. I swear, that belly-flopper of a lead vocalist wants to be […]

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Card is titled: “East Front, Mount Vernon.”

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Would’ve enjoyed it more if I wasn’t busy noting plot holes. Where’d they get all the bugs? And steak?!…was there a cattle car?

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“Snowpiercer” at The Edge 12, 11 July 2014

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I walk into work Monday and before I can even log in to the store system, three people have stopped me to ask what I think of the New Refrigerator in my department. New Refrigerator? I ask. IT HAS A STEREO BUILT IN! they each swoon, wide-eyed, slack-jawed. Indeed, our Whirlpool representative is on site, […]

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