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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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INTERESTING TIMES 2: SCHOOLDAYS
By Andrew Maben Idyll of childhood, such as it had been, was about to come to an end, though of course I had no forebodings. One cold, misty, drizzly, January afternoon my father loaded my newly packed...
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INTERESTING TIMES 3: JUST A LONELY BOY
By Andrew Maben Ravenswood was another private boarding school in the hills bordering Exmoor. It had the same rules, the same ghastly food, the same institutionalized cruelty. And I certainly had...
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INTERESTING TIMES 4: SHERBORNE
By Andrew Maben Eleven Plus, I’m sorry to tell you, was yet another shameful humiliation. You may well be thinking it’s high time I got over it. What can I say? Only that I fail now, as I did then, to...
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INTERESTING TIMES 5: GROWING UP
By Andrew Maben It’s probably fair to say that most, if not quite all, the volunteers for the Digby were losers and refugees like me, seeking any escape, even should it prove to be from frying pan to...
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INTERESTING TIMES 6: FREEDOM
By Andrew Maben No reprieved prisoner could have felt greater joy and relief than I as I walked out of the front door for the last time and made my way to the station. I took off my tie, that...
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INTERESTING TIMES 7: ART SCHOOL
By Andrew Maben Memory is still a misted night journey: soft, unshaped forms loom and fade, with occasional bright oases of light. The first week: a time of excitement, a time of uncertainly finding...
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INTERESTING TIMES 8: SUMMER OF LOVE
By Andrew Maben So, wait a minute… What, as they sometimes say, was I thinking? What indeed? I suppose that in a certain sense you could say I wasn’t thinking at all, simply living to my utmost, in the...
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