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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Twin Peaks

This is very important:
http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/10/ranking-of-all-117-sweaters-seen-on-twin-peaks.html

I have a lot of mixed feelings about the news that there is going to be more Twin Peaks. I'm pretty sure it's good news.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Friday, September 19, 2014

 “Look,” Tony said, and held Natalie’s arm to stop her before the posters of a theater; the movie now being shown inside was old, and apparently past any redemption by adjective, so that the management had simply, resignedly let the pictures into the frames outside the theater, and were now presumably hiding away somewhere inside, beyond reach of irate patrons. One of the pictures showed a glorious scene between a man in a cowboy hat and uncomfortable pistols, who backed against a door to face a darker, equally weaponful villain; in the background a damsel wrung her hands and all three seemed to turn anxiously to the camera, which alone could justify the violent emotions they ravished themselves to feel. It was plain from the picture that it was near the end of the day; the sun was setting dramatically outside the backdrop window; the hero had the look of one who would shortly remove his guns and his spurs and go home in a car he had bought but could not afford; the heroine seemed to be thinking, under her beautiful look of fear and concern, that perhaps she should keep the children out of school until this chicken-pox scare was over. The villain, too—who, tired now of jokes about his villainy and being treated mockingly by his friends as a potential murderer, had said to himself, “Just this one more time, and then I shall be myself again”—snarled, and sighed.  

“It must be a lovely movie,” said Natalie. “Shall we go in?”

“I would not embarrass them by watching them,” Tony said, “Look, this one here is a vampire.”

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Jackson, Shirley. “Hangsaman.” Penguin Group, USA, 2013.

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[photo: On the left, Starve a Fever; On the right, Feed a Cold.]