Contents of Wallet
October 24, 2011 by at 10:57 pm
one powerball ticket
overall odds 1:35.11 ($1 play)
one check from my wife in the amount of five hundred dollars
one handwritten receipt for after school care in the amount of sixty dollars
one baggage claim receipt dated 10-17
several other receipts dated 10-17
a folded post-it note with a password and the email address of someone I met at a wake
a torn and tattered fortune-cookie message which reads, Versatility is one of your outstanding traits.
four photographs of my eldest daughter
two photographs of my youngest daughter
one photograph of both daughters
one photograph of my daughters and my wife
an expired groupon
a torn-out and folded newspaper article about a place called Big Rock
my driver’s license
debit card
credit card
insurance card
university ID
public library card
business card
real estate license (expires 2/10/2012)
rechargeable local coffeehouse card (no money on it)
another university ID
another one (expired)
KOA Value Kard (good thru 07/12)
Costco card
copy card
another business card, Joseph O’Brien’s address and phone number written on the back of it
twenty-three dollars
Korrektiv = A Virtual Gentilly?
October 4, 2011 by at 7:55 pm
What, in the end, does this pursuit of virtual status mean for community and friendship? Writing in the 1980s in Habits of the Heart, sociologist Robert Bellah and his colleagues documented the movement away from close-knit, traditional communities, to “lifestyle enclaves” which were defined largely by “leisure and consumption.” Perhaps today we have moved beyond lifestyle enclaves and into “personality enclaves” or “identity enclaves”—discrete virtual places in which we can be different (and sometimes contradictory) people, with different groups of like-minded, though ever-shifting, friends.
Christine Rosen, “Virtual Friendships and the New Narcissism.”
Do Me Like Akim
October 2, 2011 by at 5:18 pm
For Lonnie our Sundays together have a program. First we talk, usually on a religious subject; then we take a ride; then he asks me to do him like Akim…. During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. (The Moviegoer, p. 164-5)
Akim Tamiroff in a scene with Janet Leigh in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil
O Rory Rory Rory
September 14, 2011 by at 10:38 pm
Rory Calhoun as Bill Longley, in a wacky episode of The Texan from 1958. Thought experiment: imagine Binx and Mrs. Schexnaydre watching this together on channel 12 one evening.
From IMDB: “After Longley is forced to kill a barfly that tried to shoot him in the back, he learns a quirk in the Montana law code — any man who slays another in a fair fight is responsible for the care and feeding of the widow and children until she gets married. Longley’s efforts to escape the snare all come to naught because the widow is in love with him and wants him for a husband ….”
The Late H. B. Warner (1875-1958)
September 13, 2011 by at 11:41 pm
The killers go out in a gruff manner and fetch the padre, a fellow who looks as much like the late H. B. Warner as it is possible for a man to look. The Moviegoer, p. 108
I was supposed to prepare a talk for the Moviegoer conference …
August 31, 2011 by at 5:17 pm
… but then a peculiar thing happened.
LOCATED: Tivoli
June 24, 2011 by at 10:51 am
Something to look out for, perhaps, in case, you know, anyone happens to be in New Orleans anytime soon.
Abortion Related Parental-involvement Laws Reduce Teen Suicide Rate, Expert Say
I’m not suprised.