[above: Lon Cheney looking like Stevie Ray Vaughan in Todd Browning’s 1927 silent film The Unknown.] Apparently the cell phone data plan Linette and I had, when it was just she and I, no longer works now that our teenage daughter has a phone as well. Every day, it seemed, we were getting texts telling […]
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The Unknown
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged #metoo, 1927, Alonzo, armless knife throwers, AT&T, AT&T Watch, bills, cell phones, Clementine, Cojo, data, data plans, deformity, extra thumbs, feet, hands, horror movies, intertitles, Joan Crawford, Lon Cheney, men in hats, missing limbs, movies, movies with surprise twist endings, Myrna Loy, Nanon, reality television, silent films, The Thin Man, The Unknown, Todd Browning, Tufei Filthela, Turner Classic Movies, unlimited data, vivisection, William Powell 14 Comments
Long Gone: A Poetry Sideshow
A local woman by the name of Karrie Waarala is putting on a one-woman show at the Riverside Arts Center this weekend, and, as I thought that some of you might find the subject matter of interest, I took the opportunity to ask her a few questions. The show, which is entitled Long Gone: A […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged advertising, Auburn Hills, ballyhoo, carnies, circus, creative writing, fire-eating, fortune telling, John Ringling North II, juggling, Karrie Waarala, Kickstarter, Long Gone: A Poetry Sideshow, MFA, Milford, NASCAR, one-woman show, plays, poetry, Riverside Arts Center, sideshows, Stonecoast low-residency program, sword swallower, tattooed lady, temporary tattoos, University of Southern Maine, Ward Hall, World of Wonders 3 Comments
Scientific Translation Requested
I want to send this to my father-in-law and ask him to translate it for me, but I’m afraid he’ll think I’m an even bigger loser than he thought previously. And, yes, this is how I spend evenings when Linette is out. I troll YouTube for footage of animals with human heads. So, if someone […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other Also tagged animals with human heads, Bronson Pinchot, Chinese, hybrid animals, illegal research, my father-in-law, translation, trout 7 Comments