Don't you hate it when H.P. Lovecraft steals your ideas?

Alright, it's my birthday so you lot get cosmic horror. It's thematic. I mentioned somewhere back in the archives that I had been browsing a history of the Spiro Mounds archaeological site, out there in Southeastern Oklahoma where the lost Caddo peoples once were. And while so browsing, I had found the perfect creepy/mundane photo to swipe the next time I needed to illustrate some kind of 30's...

"That's weird," I said to myself, sliding Touch of Evil back into the Netflix envelope and grabbing my keys. "This summary on the back calls the hero a "crusading prosecutor", but doesn't even mention he's Mexican - and half the plot is Orson Wells's corrupt American sheriff trying to leverage the presumed imbalance of their respective cultural positions to ackthpthgk! "

52 books: Crumb, Least Heat-Moon

Folkways and backways... #5, 2/4 R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country Stephen Calt, David Jasen, Richard Nevins There are one or two people out there (in-laws, mostly) who believe roots music is my thing - that I know my Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Trio from my Roane County Ramblers, and am at any moment prepared to deliver a night-school lecture on the blues legacy of Mississippi John...

post-Pryor post

By way of follow-up to this post and this one: The moment I'd been subconsciously waiting for the whole series came in the last segment of the penultimate episode of The Richard Pryor Show *, when the eponymous RP handed around the mike to let his cast introduce themselves... Cool black guy in open-collared suit: "Paul Mooney**." He hands off to... Composed black gal in lilac blouse: "...