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Stock photo–From Hell It Came

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Brick Wahl

From Hell It bCame (1957)

Stock photo–Rita Hayworth as the Lady From Shanghai

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Brick Wahl

Rita Hayworth in the Lady From Shanghai

stock photos–Harry James

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Brick Wahl

Stock photo–Ava Gardner…wow

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Brick Wahl

Ava Gardner, c. 1950.

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Yet another intellectual writing about Plan 9 From Outer Space

Every time I watch Plan 9 From Outer Space I’m disappointed. Not by the movie. I actually kinda like the movie. I’m one of those type of intellectuals who can while away time he could spend on something useful and instead watches Plan 9 From Outer Space. Unironically, even. But every time I do watch […]

That Dexter Gordon tone

Damn, I wish I could get that Dexter Gordon tone in my writing. You can feel the reed vibrating between your teeth, a big man’s sound that fills the room, every corner, every crevice, the ceiling to the floor and even reverberates in shot glasses and empty beer bottles. Toward the solo’s end it disappears […]

My latest writing at: Brick's Politics

Kamala Harris

Forgot about this–I wrote it in 2018. So I was wrong about the primary path–she never ran in any this year–but that last line proved right….just four years early. Ha. Just saw the overwhelming support Kamala Harris has among politically active women of color. Looking at the 2020 primary calendar I see it is even […]

Photos had power

I was thirteen and vividly remember the news coverage and especially the photos in this issue of Life. I also vividly remember the massacre at Jackson State about the same day but alas, there were no skilled photographers on hand and it slipped from the public memory quickly as a lot of the massacres in […]

My latest writing at: Brick's History

Cylinder seal

(2022) A lovely tool for a long vanished Mesopotamian technology, to impress cuneiform signatures onto clay cylinder seals, typically to authenticate legal documents such as contracts, receipts (as in a receipt for a shipment), deeds, wills and like that. Which is how far back paperwork goes, to the dawn of civilization. Except that it wasn’t […]

At Franklin and Vine in the 1890s

Franklin and Vine, 1890s, just a couple blocks north of Hollywood and Vine. Hollywood Blvd—then called Prospect Avenue, a graded dirt road—was already there, but nothing else made it past the 1920s, when Hollywood’s Arcadian past disappeared under studio lots and pavement. This view looking south was all city in a generation or two, the […]

My latest writing at: Brick's Science

Gifting

Like so many hundreds if not thousands of English nouns, gift actually began as a verb but at some point a millennium ago was nouned only to be reverbed in the last century and now sits uncomfortably as both noun and verb. My guess it’ll be mostly a verb in a generation or two, since […]

Big bacterium

A bacterium (I’ve always wanted to say a bacterium) of the largest known bacteria is nearly an inch long. Whatever the bacteriological word for gnarly is, this is that. Not only can you see them with the naked eye, but you can see them with the naked eye in the naked everything, if that’s your […]

My latest writing at: Brick's Brain

An epileptic watching Laura

Watching Laura for the zillionth time and Waldo Lydecker just had his seizure. I hope, says a recovered Clifton Webb to a radiantly overbit Gene Tierney, you’ll forgive my wee touch of epilepsy, my dear. Clifton Webb could sure say a my dear. He drops to a near whisper. It’s an old family custom he […]

Human experience (2016)

(December, 2016) There are various parts of the brain that create our various senses of happiness, and all have been recorded in various ways many, many, many times. Neurologists have been able to stimulate them in order to create happiness for decades now. In fact, neuroscience, neurosurgery and nanotechnology are on the verge of giving […]

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