The Explanation
(for those who require one)
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
Adventures in American Filmmaking #42

Today's Adventure: Adolphe Menjou outlines the International Communist Conspiracy
to Stanley Kubrick on the set of Paths of Glory (1957)
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American Mouthpieces #2

F. Lee Bailey
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The World of Jacob Riis #4

One of Four Pedlars Who Slept in the Cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear (1892)
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The Art of Cinema #91

Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle . . .
(Two or Three Things I Know About Her)
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1967)
They Were Collaborators #86

Monty Python
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The Ink & Paint Set #3

Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein's Monster
in Have You Got Any Castles?
(Frank Tashlin, Warner Bros., 1938)
The Cool Hall of Fame #23

Seymour Hersh
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The Art of Cinema #90

La Notte
(The Night)
(Michelangelo Antonioni; 1961)
(mucho, mucho thanks to Claudio for this image)
When Legends Gather #62

Lum & Abner, Amos & Andy, and Laurel & Hardy
(Chet Lauck, Norris Goff, Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy)
An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America #6

Rosa Parks is arrested for civil disobedience for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala. in 1956.
Rosa Parks: 1913-2005
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From 'The Black Panther Coloring Book' #6

"Black Panthers protect Black children."
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Shirley Horn Dead at 71

Shirley Horn, one of the finer piano-playing chanteuses in memory, has passed at the age of 71.
Here is an appreciation from today's New York Times.
The Cool Hall of Fame #22

Frederick Wiseman
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From 'The Black Panther Coloring Book' #5

"Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, organized the Black brothers to defend their families."
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From the Black Panther Coloring Book
The Golden Age of Prurience #26

Lesbian Hell
(by Jane Sherman)
(Playtime Books; 1963)
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The World of Jacob Riis #3

Black and Tan (1890)
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They Were Collaborators #84

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
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