Spitball Army

The Good Earth, or How Paul Muni and Luise Rainer Conceived Three Chinese Children. The other special effects were pretty cool, too.

Cheap microwaves bleed x-rays, a customer avows. Know what you mean, I say. She nods, unaware it’s Day 18 of my radiation therapy.

In the opening credits to Shane, Jack Palance is billed as Walter Jack Palance.

When Shane changes from his light blue long-sleeved shirt to his buckskin frontiersman duds, you know he means business.

Shane subplots: homesteaders vs. cattle baron gangs; young boy’s hero worship; gunfighter struggling to suppress his past; love triangle.

I tell Mother I’ve watched Shane again. “Shane, come back!” she cries. I hear her in my ear, miles away, further than the Tetons.

As seen from the top of the Kirklin Clinic parking deck.

for a doctor

Pizza-induced nightmare. Werner Herzog narration. Interruption inspired by Sam Adams. Sustained wakefulness courtesy 2 AM thunder.

Card is titled: “Crystal Bay Lake Tahoe.”

Printed on back of post card:

CRYSTAL BAY, LAKE TAHOE. One of the fascinating sights in Nevada.

B1771

Publishing information:

The Continental Card
Dist. by Tahoe Postcard & Specialty Service, Tahoe City, Calif. 95730

Mike Roberts
Berkeley 94710

The Helium Arch at the South Pole Station during its dismantling in 1996-1997. (Photo by Chris Rock.)

Humid; in the 90s. Woman on the sidewalk in black slacks and blouse, dyed-black hair and horn rims, curses her fashion choices.