POE or 30d EMILY DICKINSON COULD TALK YOUR HEAD OFF”Emily Dickinson could talk your head off with a remark. When I was in the early stages of writing her biography I ran across a few that put me on my guard. There was the one about the old lady who came to the door toContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: POETS & POETRY”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS
page from THE NEW CENTURY DICTIONARY For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennysonquoted in metaphors be with you by Mardy Grothe (New York: Harper, 2016)**COMIC BOOK SLANGSplash Panel — ” The first panel of a comic book story, larger (sometimes, or full page) than the other panels; itContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
ADVICE ON BECOMING A WRITER”Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expectedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29
A STUNTMAN DESCRIBES SADDLE FALLS IN THE MOIVIE THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE “In the final dramatic sequence, where the Lancers charge the cannons of the Russian army, I took numerous ‘saddle falls’ rigged by ‘the running W.’ A cable was strung from an old car axle, driven in the ground, and then tiedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #29”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT
SCIENCE”Leave only three wasps alive in the whole of Europe and the air of Europe will still be more crowded with wasps than space is with stars.” James Jeans**HOW TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION OF A KEYSO YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPRESSION OF IT”Neat attention to detail: when The Jackal is making an impression of aContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THIS & THAT”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE’S MANUSCRIPTS”Not a single Shakespeare manuscript survives, so, as withChaucer, we cannot be sure how closely the work we know is really Shakespeare’s. Hemming and Condell consulted any number of sources to produce their folio — printers’ manuscripts, actors’ promptbooks, even the memoriers of other actors. But from what happened to the work of otherContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28
THE QUEEN OF POVERTY ROW According to Richard Lamparski, in his seventh Whatever Became of Series…, “Poverty Row was a group of studios on and around Gower Street in Hollywood that produced low budget movies . Columbia Pictures, where Ms. (DOROTHY) Revier was under contract,was considered a ‘poverty Row’ studio until the mid-thirties. ” DorothyContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #28”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6
ADVERTISING IN LATE NINETEENTH & EARLY 20th CENTURY AMERICA”There was a certain amount of petty fraud often of a good-humored kind, in the advertising of the day. For instance,persons sending money for an advertised ‘Potato Bug Eradicator’ received two slivers of wood with the instructions ‘Place the potato bug between the two sticks of woodContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING
“Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expected to like good fictionContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?
AFTER SEEING THE MOVIE FRANKENSTEIN”After seeing Frankenstein, I was convinced that the monsterwould climb the fire escape outside of my tenement window toget me. Why he should want to get me, of all people, amid themillions who lived in New York, or why he would even be in’New York in the first place, didn’t enterContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?”
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