Any idea when pics will be available for public consumption? Or, you know, for us?
No idea. Wish I could make LJ icons of some of them. There's one that would be perfect with the caption, "My Fandom Is a Deep Well of Seekrits"
This one is Rita Hayworth on satin sheets with a cigarette holder wrapped in one manicured hand, and the head of John the Baptist in the other hand.
I'm in love.
This show is my seekrit boyfriend, I think.
I'm worried I have no credibility, here, but you're just goinna have to take my word for it til you see for yourself.
Slick noir beauty in every nook. It's hardboiled bettie page in a corset on grainy film gumshoe in a fedora heartachingly beautiful.
'Scuse me, I need to change my drool pail.
Puts Tivo back on the Xmas list.
And what's up with me and the cheesey metaphor? How did I get so melodramatic? You guys let me become this bad poet. I blame all of you for not stopping me. Jerks.
You may be a bad poet, but you're a good woman.
I blame all of you for not stopping me. Jerks.
Friends don't let friends write noir.
Friends don't let friends write noir.
Where were you when I was writing my very pulpy Gun Club piece for the book?
Where were you when I was writing my very pulpy Gun Club piece for the book?
Killing a guy for money and a woman. I didn't get the money, and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?
Pretty, isn't it?
Pretty as a counterfeit twenty. And just as deep.
t /hardboiled
Have you ever read Thomas Berger's Who Is Teddy Villanova?, David? Highly recommended. Really, really funny parody of detective fiction. The language (which is the point of the book, I think) is as stylized as Chandler, Hammett, Cain or Wilder and Diamond (the good folks who brought us Double Indemnity) but in a completely different way. Russell Wren, the narrator, is a wannabe writer working as a private detective. He's pretentious as all get out -- think Dick Cavett at his most over the top and w/o any sense of irony. He makes really arcane references but invariably gets either one-upped by someone he didn't think was very smart or pounded by someone who doesn't want to hear Wren's shtick. The plot is completely absurd, one goofy situation after another. (I'm especially fond of Boris the bus driver and the Francophone reform school girls. The Ganymede episode is a riot, too.) Anyway, if you like to see genre conventions tweaked -- not that Buffy fans would dig something like that -- you should check it out.
