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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    H.L. Mencken

    Favorite Mencken quote, concerning the 3.2 beer sellable during Prohibition, often called "near-beer." Mencken: "Whoever called it 'near-beer' was a poor judge of distance." The quote has a Classical pithiness worthy of Samuel Johnson or Gibbon.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    I believe those were on Lizzie's first-ever posting in the "Vintage Things That Have Disappeared" thread. I've got a couple of those things around here somewhere. When I was a kid I liked to pretend that they were anarchist bombs.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    He's on to me!
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I was in a post office today, and in need of a stamp, but the office was closed, and it occurred to me that it has been years since I've seen a stamp vending machine.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    Polo is 2J's cat, who shows up in the oddest places
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Pocket Knife

    "Switchblades" were outlawed in 1958 because, of all things, they were featured in a lot of juvenile delinquent movies, popular in the '50s. Think " Rebel Without a Cause." By the '90s, when the gangs were armed with military-grade firearms, it seemed silly to ban a pocket knife because it...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    What's with all the nails on the telephone pole? I remember one in Santa Barbara that woodpeckers had stuffed full of acorns.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The scent of patchouli always takes me back to the 60s, when for some reason it was popular with the Counterculture.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    In the '50s-'60s the Grosset & Dunlap books, mostly YA (" juveniles," back then) had a distinctive smell that always takes me back to that time. Whether Tarzan or Tom Corbett, they all had that smell. Now, in a dealer's room or used bookshop, I can sometimes catch a faint whiff of that...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My parents went to high school in the mid-30s and could remember their marching bands practicing the goose-step. It was soon to fall out of favor.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Explain the 3-Sphere to me.

    Three spheres identifies a pawnshop.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Reading this reminds me of Bill Mauldin's " Willie and Joe" cartoons of WWII. In a Christmas cartoon, the boys are somewhere in Europe celebrating Christmas and their tree is hung with hand grenades and garlands of machine gun belts. The boys are drunk as usual.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Rodd Redwing

    I've read about Redwing's knife-and-bullet trick, and some of the others. Like Stephen Hunter's Swagger family, he must have been born with a special relationship with the firearm, able to do effortlessly things that no ordinary human could do.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time that, when you had trouble taking an important step, someone assured you that you were "free, white and twenty-one." ?
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Speaking of Forrest J. Ackerman's "Famous Monsters of Filmland," (I bought it from the first issue, much to my parents' dismay). It was in FMOF that I first saw advertised some of the more sophisticated costume accessories. I really wanted the Creature From the Black Lagoon mask and gloves, but...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Wind River

    Nevermind. I checked IMFDB and it's a Marlin 1895, wearing a winter camo job.
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of the scariest experiences of my young life was, at age 19, driving a manual shift in San Francisco for the first time. Balancing clutch against accelerator on those steep hills was hair-raising, especially when there was a car two feet behind your rear bumper (and there always was).
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Wind River

    BSJ, I haven't seen this yet (nearest theater 50+ miles away), just trailers and stills. Can you tell me what sort of rifle that is Renner carries? From the glimpses, I'm thinking a stainless Marlin, but it might be a Ruger takedown. Nifty looking gun, whichever.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Film Noir...in Color?

    I should point out that not all the European expats were Jewish. Some had been communists or belonged to other organizations forbidden by the Nazis. Others, like Marlene Dietrich, simply despised the Nazis. Goebbels was always trying to seduce her and if that wouldn't make her want to put an...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Film Noir...in Color?

    Another budget factor: B crime films always made extensive use of stock footage. In the '40s almost all of this was B&W. Cityscapes, establishing shots, downtown street scenes, almost all of this was stock footage, which cost a fraction of shooting those scenes for the movie.
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