[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, 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, William Powell 14 Comments
Could a rino with human hands lift that light fixture?
Linette and Clementine drove to Cleveland on Friday to see the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, leaving Arlo and me home alone to eat banana splits while watching Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Before settling in the for the night, though, he and I headed out for pizza. […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Abbott and Costello, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Arlo, banana splits, Bigalora, Charles Laughton, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, human hands, Infinity Mirrors, Island of Dr. Moreau, Island of Lost Souls, light fixture, rhinoceros, rinos, Totally Quotable Arlo, Yayoi Kusama 7 Comments