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SOAP IN THE BUSH – IN AND OUT OF AFRICA
When Baroness, Karen Von Blixen, aka ‘everywoman’ Meryl Streep, discovers that the one brother she’s in love with is not content with just doing her, and the other brother is busy doing everyone left...
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BETTIE PAGE WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN: CELEBRITY BRANDING AND SURFACE DEEP...
By Jim Linderman Not seen in over 50 years, and certainly not identified as Bettie Page at the time of publication, these photographs were in such questionable taste even the “notorious” pin-up model...
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STARBUCKS: A MILLION ASSHOLES PUCKERED EACH DAY
A short man, with short white hair and a short white beard is reading the list of drinks on the wall above the counter. He wears a white Polo shirt and voluminous pressed Levis. “What does Espresso...
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BUGS/LIFE
Director Samuel Orr presents us with a painstakingly beautiful account of the unique 17-year lifecycle of Cicadas. The video is a trailer, a promo, a ‘greatest hits’ version of the full-length movie...
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WE HAVE TO TALK
To a man, the four most terrifying words in the English language. The Los Angeles Police Academy sits in a corner of Elysian Park – one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Its palm-shaded hills...
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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – # 5 MOSES
In the Stage Musical The Ten Commandments, Val Kilmer stars as – or as the poster would have it – actually “is” Moses. According to The L.A. Weekly, the production was originally “launched” in France,...
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HYPNOTIST COLLECTORS AND WALKING ANTIQUES: NYLA THOMPSON AND THE DISHONESTY...
By Jim Linderman Pioneer folk art collector Herbert Hemphill, Jr. was on a mission in the early 1970s. The first director of the nascent Museum of American Folk Art and compulsive collector of same...
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SPOKES
Scientists suggest they now know how much the Earth weighs. What does this mean? Each human being walking the Earth embodies a linear force of attraction and repulsion that runs vertically through...
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CLASSIC MOVIES #9 – MASTER AND COMMANDER
Obscurantist visual seduction at its very best, convincing us once again that conflict among human beings – especially white European human beings – is inevitable, and with the right music, the right...
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GUNG HO
When we came up with the idea of freewill, we pulled the rug out from under ourselves and started wearing it as a hat. It’s our most cherished conceit. In a moment of inspired bravado we went over the...
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CROWDFUNDING AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF SCREAM PARK
By dixē.flatlin3 Once upon a time there was a young man who dreamt of making a horror movie. But not just any horror movie would suffice, no. This young man wanted to make an 80’s-style slasher film. A...
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CLASSIC MOVIES – #4 MR. AND MRS. SMITH
The first time I saw Mrs. Smith, she was lying next to me on the side of a bus. Later that same day… I spotted her husband on the side of another one. De rigueur as it is for Hollywood movie stars,...
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AN ANT
I watched an ant, stumbling across the hairs on my arm, a scene as remote and beyond my control as a leaf falling from a tree in China. I had no say in any of it. Even if I were to fool myself that...
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BLACAMAN AND GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ CHEAT DEATH
By Jim Linderman “A favorite for long with Argentine circus-goers was “Blackamon, the Living Corpse.” A swarthy, stocky Italian, Corpse Blackamon favored satin turbans and gaudy oriental robes,...
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MOUTHS TO FEED
Corporations are considered living organisms and afforded rights accordingly. Their primary directive, like all life, is to increase. Unlike biological organisms, however, their methods are not...
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PLAYING THE GAME
The publicity photograph shows him standing barefoot in a business suit, hanging by one arm from the branch of a tree. His passion, we are told, is Conservation. His career has spanned several...
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LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY IN BLACK AND WHITE
By Jim Linderman Black gangsters from the past. Given the attitudes, practices and institutional racism of the time, these sharp-dressers might have just been walking to work when swept up. It appears...
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HARRY ROSKOLENKO AND THE COUCH OF DESIRE: EXCERPT FROM TIMES SQUARE SMUT, THE...
By Jim Linderman Harry Roskolenko In 2008, I came across a list of 72 books which were banned by the Supreme Court of the United States. As the story was under-reported, few Americans then or now know...
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HOWARD CAMPBELL AND WOODROW HILL: A BOOK AND AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
By Jim Linderman The first post I wrote for DULL TOOL DIM BULB was about a piece of furniture I obtained from Howard Campbell. Howard Campbell was one of the most interesting men I ever knew, and I...
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INTERESTING TIMES 1: BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
By Andrew Maben Four in the morning the labor pains began. It was 9:30 a.m. in Delhi. It would be a difficult birth. Labor went on through the day, until the doctors decided to intervene and at four...
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