Posts by Chris Oxley
Hadn't intended to write about another hangman (accidental diptych), but this story may be more bonkers than the last one...
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New one up. Probably should be a more well-known story here...
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New column up at Zona Motel. Maybe my fave, so far. Contains over 40 links!
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A postwar comic book burning in Spencer. WV, and more...
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If you've ever wondered where the Venn Diagram circles of “Frank Lloyd Wright” and “Domino's Pizza” overlap, have I got the post for you!
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The Venn diagram circles of Johnny Cash and Johnny Paycheck overlap locally here (and more).
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Drop a bad guy you actually love.
And for Hagman to pull this off after being ingrained in brains as Major Nelson is a feat as well.
I’d love to see a series of Bond short films by different directors like Aki Kaurismäki, Alice Rohrwacher or Wes Anderson.
Would love this. They do this in comics where an anthology would have different writers/artists take on a character.
It's like what Mike Leigh said his James Bond take would be: visiting his mother, having tea.
BLAZING SADDLES (I'm wearing a poster-emblazoned t-shirt right now, in fact). He let me watch DIE HARD when I was 12, and then we rented & watched all the Bond movies from DR. NO to then seeing LICENSE TO KILL in the theater. So, clichéd examples for my age group, maybe, but I wouldn't trade 'em.
Cold-weather shot; both Jane and Henry are in wool coats; a marquee for ON THE BEACH is visible in the background
Just under the wire for Father's Day: Jane Fonda with father Henry Fonda, Times Square, 1959. Photograph by Leonard McCombe
Wishing Love and Mercy to the late, great Brian Wilson
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I've seen him perform live more than any other person or band, I'd wager. Just pure joy. What a genius. What a legend. May he rest in peace.
Losing Brian Wilson and Sly Stone the same week feels monumental, like when Bergman and Antonioni passed within a day of each other. #RIP