[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, Freaks, hands, horror movies, intertitles, Joan Crawford, Lon Cheney, men in hats, missing limbs, 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
Blackbeard’s Ghost
Last night, Arlo and I watched the 1968 Disney film Blackbeard’s Ghost, starring Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette, and Dean “the poor man’s Jimmy Stewart” Jones… After having spent about 20 minutes sorting through our options, we’d narrowed it down to two movies, and Arlo decided against Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, having […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1718, 1968, Arlo, assassination, bad movie reviews, Blackbeard's Ghost, bloodshed, Disney, Easy Rider, hotdogs, Jimmy Stewart, MLK, movie reviews, North Carolina, Peter Fonda, pirates, RFK, Robert Maynard, Roger Ebert, Royal Navy, Targets, Tet Offensive, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, track, track and field, Won Ton Ton 24 Comments
Author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner on the new film adaptation of her book The Diary of a Teenage Girl, 826 Michigan’s Amanda Uhle on the future of Mittenfest, and Pete Larson flies in from Kenya to perform live …on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack
We’re not quite sure why, but the woman behind the most talked about coming-of-age movie in the country this summer, author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner, has agreed to come on the Saturday Six Pack this weekend and tell us what it’s like to see your young, semi-autobiographical self projected on the silver screen in front […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 826 Michigan, Amanda Uhle, Brian Robb, Diary of a Teenage Girl, German Park, J.T. Garlfield, Kenya, mashed potato borne illnesses, Mittenfest, Osaka, Pete Larson, Phoebe Gloeckner, sex, sexuality, Taiko No Tettsu, Washington Street porch show 14 Comments