The dinner offering is one of Hawaii’s giant centipedes. The cattle egret poked and jabbed at it, then picked it up by the head, flipped it in the air, caught it, and swallowed it whole with a single head-ducking gulp.
film
I never drink . . . . . . wine
The night he finishes editing “Freaks,”
Tod Browning sleeps an undisturbed sleep. This night, however, hour by hour, his bed in the dark is becoming shared with another body. The body hasn’t yet awakened from the sleep in which it was created, but after it opens its eyes it will see Tod, the man whose camera penetrated the dark and forced it to dream body into being. In their bed in that first awakening, Tod and the body will open their mouths and say to each other:
“We accept you. One of us.”
Hat: Louise, 1927
The Library of Congress’s notation at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014712606/ (George Grantham Bain collection) indicates that the image is undated, but a date marked on the negative is July 25, 1927.
Kinok
For Dziga Vertov
Forward backward
Forward then: fifty years after the era of Abraham Cahan, but still going strong. The headline reads, “Israel will not give up even a sliver of land.” Continue reading
All I need is my horse, my girl, my umbrella, and my bra
Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005024750/. Photoshopped.
