Link — Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe Talk Donald Trump – Arts Intel “Flak Catchers” by François Busnel, based on interviews with Wolfe and Talese in 2017, published by Graydon Carter’s airmail.news. Uncredited photo accompanied airmail.news story online. Excerpts below. Note: This was written and published before the second-term Trump experience. I disagree with Talese’s …
Needing to unwind with an old, favorite movie, I watched The Misfits, 1961, again last night — but with the sound off. The combination of captions-only and the black-and-white picture in the darkened living room made the Arthur Miller screenplay, the John Huston direction and the Russell Metty cinematography all the more brilliant. Great acting …
I can see that my morning writing time is about up … And I forgot that December 6 was his 1-year anniversary here and his guess-work third birthday. We’re goin’ for a walk.
I’ve always loved Westerns but it took filming in New Mexico and West Texas, particularly Longmire and Dark Winds and No Country for Old Men, to really hook me. .
I stumbled across this during my morning rabbit hole hopping and am reprinting it here because I like his descriptions of San Francisco and New York. Enlarge the type to read.
I am well aware that not everyone is a fan of my blog.
I resort to taking pictures with my iPhone when I don’t have much to say. It happens more often these days. Here I am again. Don’t get me wrong. I’m reading plenty and I watch many hours of news and punditry on TV. I have rewarding conversations via email with several friends. Cowboy is always …
Rain wakes me at 7 a.m., the day before Christmas. I decide to read Joan Didion with coffee. She died yesterday. Later I will read Slouching Toward Bethlehem . This morning I choose her essay on Ernest Hemingway, Last Words. There will be fried potatoes and green chile for breakfast. Cowboy ate his kibble and …
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