‘The Air’ by The Mothers of Invention
Happy Mothers Day.
I don’t confine my reading to mysteries. That would be too limiting… If you only read mysteries, you could easily become like the people who only watch Donahue on the tube and think that all the people in the U.S. are sexual deviates.
Godzilla #11 pages 2-3 spread by Simon Gane. Colors by Ronda Pattison. Seriously, you gotta see this one—Godzilla vs. Hedorah.
Wild Car Chase “Le Coup / Le Casse / The Burglars” 1971 J.P.Belmondo / O.Sharif (by MikeAndMechanics).
An outtake from the brilliant John Wilcock: The New York Years by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall.
Today in weird Eastside L.A. lore, deranged vegetarian gobbles up Lincoln Park lake duck (1947).
http://1947project.blogspot.com/2005/04/just-duck-soup-for-vegetarian-to-land.html
The opening of the Lee Marvin-Gene Hackman crime flick Prime Cut, which inspired the opening page of X #0 (Dark Horse). You’ve got to love the balls of a mob movie where the bad guy is named “Mary Ann.”
A 21-year-old man living on Charles Street hijacked a helicopter departing from 34th Street to the Pan Am Building, demanding $2 million, to be delivered by a woman in a bikini, allegedly for the purpose of buying guns for the Jewish Defense League.
The best line in today’s New York Times.
