Not so Innocent Abroad

From the "New York Review of Books", a good introduction to Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels...

Built like a car

Don't wake me up too late

It ain't right.

But my eyes can see

Come now, gentlemen

inch by inch

Great Exploitations: The Doberman Gang

Human kindness is overflowing

Raising Caine

Regardless of how he died or what sordid tale emerges, we're truly saddened by the death of David Carradine. Here's a clip from Abbe Wool's underrated "Roadside Prophets".

Bystander on the mean streets

From The Guardian, news that Raymond Chandler has a previously unidentifed cameo in "Double Indemnity":

Remember.

I come apart., but that's okay...

Rivers, you know how is the story

We come with the dust and we're gone with the wind

won't be long

Bob Dylan does the Rolling Stones!

The Rolling Stones do Dylan!

Freud's last years

More here and here.

The Great Man walks

..and sips tea