You won't shoot your own brother, Carla

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Tonight was an inadvertent Fritz Lang two-fer: I went to see Ministry of Fear (1944) at the Brattle and then I came home and Fury (1936) was playing on TCM. I'd always thought of a sharp break between his earlier Expressionist work and his American films, but I had no idea what I was talking about. Blackout in London (as Powell and Pressburger proved four years earlier) is a beautiful playground for all sorts of strange light and shadow. Lang was a year out of Nazi Germany when he filmed small-town togetherness as a lynch mob, mothers lifting their children on their shoulders to watch a man burning to death behind bars. I knew I wanted to see You and Me (1938), but I might as well stick the whole catalogue on the list now.

I am ignoring Tiny Richardson (except for when he revs his bike threateningly at T. Witt.) and posting some of the photos from yesterday's parade. All by nineweaving unless otherwise credited.



I'd forgotten I was wearing earplugs until I saw this picture. I said there was a lot of brass!



I also said Dr. Alberts' sign kept getting him stopped for photo ops. That's a cathode ray tube from the RCA Victor 6T87 we didn't quite salvage in June he's holding. I believe he is demonstrating the "radio wave."



It was a really good sign.



I had a sign with much smaller print, but I also had a vest pocket full of cards, which I handed out to anyone who looked sufficiently intrigued or confused. I went through three pocketfuls. I consider that pretty decent advertising.



Speaking of which! (Photo by David Kessler. Hand by Lily Grodzins.)



audioboy already posted this one on Facebook, so I don't feel too bad about reproducing it.



Ditto David Kessler and this one.



And this one was taken by my mother, who insisted on an after-the-ball-was-over shot. I've uploaded the one where my eyes are actually focused. It was only about five o'clock.



Bonus! The Mari-bison-thing. On wheels. You can't really see them, but the eyes were made out of bottle glass. It certainly looked from certain freakish, decaying angles as though there was real bone inside. I approved so much and I hope it never comes by my house on New Year's and clacks its jaws.

Eagle-eyed readers may remember the flat cap from the last round of picspam. It's been in regular rotation ever since. The suit was the first one my father ever bought; the shirt is the one decent white shirt I still own, but I abstracted it from one of my parents years ago. I'd still like to have been wearing suspenders, but as it was I didn't have to buy a single article of clothing in order to dress like I worked in radio in 1938—or at least a lot closer to 1938 than now—and I'm actually rather proud of this.

Still want a pocket watch, though.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Nice shots! And thanks so much for sharing the Mari-bison thing. It's rather awesome.

I hope you can soon see more Fritz Lang films.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Good pictures. I know it's probably not around, but I would have liked a shot of you in the suit but with your hair down, just for the dissonance.

I wish I could have come to Honk!, but as usual fate and redheads intervened. Or redheads and fate as the case may be, depending on just who gets top billing.
EDIT: And since I forgot to mention it, excellent advertising! I still have to get posters to local shoppes.

[aliseadae]

I like being able to picture the parade. That is a cool outfit. I also like the bison.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

LOVE the suit. And the hair (what can I say? I like necks :D ).

Nice to see Environmental Encroachment on the HONK! bill -- they played at my camp at Burning Man in 2005!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I went through three pocketfuls. I consider that pretty decent advertising.

Yes!
Also, forgot to mention I approve of the waistcoat.

Bonus! The Mari-bison-thing.
Thank you! I'd been wanting to know what the hell that would look like.

Still want a pocket watch, though.
This is what thrift stores are for. ;)

[zdenka]

The outfit has an excellent effect.

Also, that bison is terrifying.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You did well. Now come back and play nicely in the twenty-first century until next time. Put down that WPA application, they've been closed for decades.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Part on me wants to see a fight between that bison and the taxidermied lion from the other day. Part of me fears it would end like 'The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat.'

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Adding my voice to the others to say you look smashing in a suit.

Also, much obliged for the shot of the mari buffalo. I only saw it from a distance, through a crowd, like a poorly glimpsed creature in a horror movie, so this is by way of reassuring me that it's a single definable entity with no ability to, say, get off its skis and menace people.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Those are some amazing pictures. I just wish I could wear a man's suit like that (too short and round to even think of it!) -- you looked really cool and very spiffy, Tiny Richardson be damned. And I'm also slightly jealous that you could borrow your father's clothes -- that must be so neat.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Now that is an outift! :)

[gwynnega]

You look great in that outfit! That parade looks like fun.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You look gorgeous! I bet many a lass were smitten, and a fair smattering of lads. You've got a great saunter! (Your excellent smile is something I was already aware of :-)

The buffalo is actually oddly terrifying--like a nightmarish coming-alive of a bundle of rags.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

You do look smashing, and oddly authentic. Thank you for sharing the photos!

the shirt is the one decent white shirt I still own
What men's neck/shirt size are you? I have more white men's shirts than I will probably ever be able to do anything with, and I'm happy to share.

I discovered, disconcertingly, this weekend that I can wear my father's clothes too. I knew about the shirts, but I have no explanation whatsoever for the pants. My father is 6'2". I am 5'6".

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I like! By the way, I suspect you would like a real pocket watch, but there are various cheap ones readily available these days. My 14yo son has one that cost, I think, $8.