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Finally, time to write the book on you
As it turns out, what goes on with my hand is that it's going to have arthritis, but with any luck on the same glacial timeline as the kind that runs in my family, and in the meantime I have been referred back to OT. Maybe there will be more paraffin.
My parents as an unnecessary gift for taking care of the plants while they were out of town—mostly watering a lot of things in pots and digging the black swallow-wort out of the irises—gave me Eddie Muller's Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (2001/2025), which not only fits the theme of this year's Noir City: Boston, but contains such useful gems as:
One of the most common, if wrong-headed, criticisms of film noir is that it relegates women to simplistic archetypes, making them Pollyannas or femmes fatales, drippy good girls or sinister sexpots. People who believe this nonsense have never seen a noir starring Ella Raines.
Ella Raines is indeed all that and a drum solo on top, but she is not a unique occurrence and I can only hope that people who have not been paying attention to Karen Burroughs Hannsberry or Imogen Sara Smith will listen to the Czar of Noir when he writes about its complicated women, because I am never going to have the platform to get this fact through people's heads and I am never going to let up on it, either.
Anyway, I learned a new vocabulary word.
My parents as an unnecessary gift for taking care of the plants while they were out of town—mostly watering a lot of things in pots and digging the black swallow-wort out of the irises—gave me Eddie Muller's Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (2001/2025), which not only fits the theme of this year's Noir City: Boston, but contains such useful gems as:
One of the most common, if wrong-headed, criticisms of film noir is that it relegates women to simplistic archetypes, making them Pollyannas or femmes fatales, drippy good girls or sinister sexpots. People who believe this nonsense have never seen a noir starring Ella Raines.
Ella Raines is indeed all that and a drum solo on top, but she is not a unique occurrence and I can only hope that people who have not been paying attention to Karen Burroughs Hannsberry or Imogen Sara Smith will listen to the Czar of Noir when he writes about its complicated women, because I am never going to have the platform to get this fact through people's heads and I am never going to let up on it, either.
Anyway, I learned a new vocabulary word.
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Thank you! I will strive for geologic time.
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That is a currently useful vocabulary word.
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It was what I saw when I opened the book and I was so happy!
That is a currently useful vocabulary word.
It's terrible and I'm glad to know it.
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*hugs*
Very much appreciated.
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Oooh nice books!
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Thank you. Work with me here, genetics.
Oooh nice books!
All recommended!
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Oh, I'm sorry. I hope, then, for glaciers and paraffin for you. <3
I'm glad someone has your back on noir! It sounds like an excellent present.
Anyway, I learned a new vocabulary word.
That is a suitably expressive word.
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Thank you. It sounds a little as though I should apply them in alternation. This could take a few aeons.
I'm glad someone has your back on noir! It sounds like an excellent present.
It lacks a chapter on Lizabeth Scott, but otherwise I am enjoying it immensely!
That is a suitably expressive word.
It would have been fine to learn it irrelevantly!
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I'd still bring earplugs, but I'd make sure to listen to him.
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I support your staying as far out of this circus as logistically possible.
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May your hands continue glacially in all things unpleasant, and quickly in all things useful and lovely.
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I find it hard to believe they would not have agreed the situation warrants it. It seems visible from space.
(Where in Ukraine, if I may ask?)
May your hands continue glacially in all things unpleasant, and quickly in all things useful and lovely.
Thank you!
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Forgive my spelling, and I don't have any Cyrillic.
Jhitomir, Chernobyl, and Kiev. And if they didn't get out in the 10s and 20s, they didn't get out. Obv. (The fourth grandparent was cagey, or at least his folks were cagey with him. The closest we have for them is somewhere in Belarus.)
My kitchen table Yiddish never got me much more than that. Sadly.
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Thank you for telling me. It was great-grandparents with me and one of them actively withheld information: I know more about where he came from and how he got to America than came down in the family to my mother. The others at least we had stories to start from.
My kitchen table Yiddish never got me much more than that. Sadly.
I am glad it got you something.
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And speaking of which, I was able to look up how to prounounce your new vocabulary word and that was very satisfying.
P.
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I appreciate very much the individuality and symmetry of this one.
And speaking of which, I was able to look up how to prounounce your new vocabulary word and that was very satisfying.
I'm glad! It seemed sort of cathartic to share.
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That quote from Dark City Dames is good and also made me realize that if you mixed up the adjectives (drippy sexpots, sinister good girls) you still have recognizable types. How weird.
More paraffin sounds relaxing, and may it delay arthritis until well into your 90s.
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Yes! I also liked "Political slap fights between clowns." I have a friend who still refers to the man in the White House as the Horror Clown.
That quote from Dark City Dames is good and also made me realize that if you mixed up the adjectives (drippy sexpots, sinister good girls) you still have recognizable types. How weird.
You're right. Human archetypes, man.
More paraffin sounds relaxing, and may it delay arthritis until well into your 90s.
Thank you. And in my nineties, it can just bug me a bit.
*hugs*
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(PS: Paraffin?!?)
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An incredibly useful word I wish there had been no occasion to invent!
(PS: Paraffin?!?)
Paraffin!
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Ooh, that looks like an excellent book.
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I really enjoyed it! It is partly a series of profiles and interviews done a quarter-century ago and partly a series of entirely new profiles, mixed with film criticism of the kind I actually enjoy even when I may disagree with the author about individual films.