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links for 2008-05-09: signage fonts, Richard Price

CBRD – Media – Fonts British road sign fonts. I searched in vain for information about these, a couple of years ago. (via russel davies) (tags: typography UK road-signs) The Believer – Interview with Richard Price – containing, amongst other … more…

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Harry Crews

I re-read Harry Crews‘ A Childhood: The Biography of a Place a few months ago, and this clip is a radically shortened re-telling of a story in the book. I don’t know why I didn’t post about it at the … more…

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Stanley Unwin’s Deepest Joys. Oh yes.

I’ve been picking up audio clips by Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), at long last — the stimulus being listening again to certain morsels used as interstitial material in a mix I picked up from Tom Raworth’s blog, many moons ago. I … more…

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slow burn

— trivial, I know, but Jack had to be moved off the top of the page. (via BB)

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alternate repetitions in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

I don’t remember why I was browsing on The Shining originally — possibly I was thinking of doing Jack up as a lolmaniac ….ah yes… — but amongst the trivia on an otherwise rather turgid write-up at House of Horrors, … more…

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links for 2008-01-26: Donald Barthelme, Malki’s Expendable

Donald Barthelme’s barthelmismo jessamyn’s collection of Bathelme links (tags: barthelme jessamyn pynchon humour) Wondermark: Expendable David Malki’s venture into moving pictures. Its an action comedy, with live actors. (tags: david-malki wondermark shorts movies comedy humour youtube)

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links for 2007-12-09: Golden Compass

Crooked Timber » » Northern Lights, the Intercision “Perhaps in another decade or so, production will be cheap enough to allow a revisionist take on the deeper, darker stories. Maybe our kids will chortle at today’s hopelessly off key takes … more…

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You Are What You Love

We are indebted to Lord Whimsy for the above kick in the eye, which snapped me, I hope, out of the strange loop that’s been circling in the noodle for the past day or so. The clip is from Adaptation … more…

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Animal Crackers (1930)

A little something for a quiet Saturday afternoon. See also: Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933) (via MeFi)

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Deborah Kerr 1921-2007

Deborah Kerr in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943 Considered the very model of English gentility (despite being Scottish), DK could smoulder like nobody’s business. Star of The King and I, From Here To Eternity, The End of … more…

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