Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Magazine of Silas is Ten Shades of Strange

Presenting diverse material is interesting to me since the content has to jazz me first or why bother passing it along to anyone.  That approach is ok for writing a magazine but the regulars know I'm still a stoner wastrel guitar bum who just does it because weird information has its own value.  Everything synthesizes into the Grand Kozmik but what makes this or that odd part fit.

The impression may appear I spend all my time browsing science articles or who knows what but the actual game today was locating a movie from 1971, "A New Leaf," in which Walter Matthau plays a frivolous scoundrel of a rich boy who squandered all his money but has no skills of any kind to make more of it.  He devised a plan, used by many in such times, of finding a filthy rich woman to marry her to solve his financial problems.

The Matthau Plan had an additional twist since he planned to kill her as soon after the wedding as possible.

Comedy ensues.

Relax as it's Matthau so you know he won't go through with it.


He wouldn't get away with that with Sophia Loren.


Matthau, the scoundrel playboy, would have taken one look and known he was outmatched.  Don't even try to lie to her when those eyes can melt you even without a word.


With not much of a segue at all, sometimes I have thrown out something along the line of many of today's divas look like children and that's blasted as coming from the Old School crank or some such but here's one example of a woman in that Old School view.


Even young, Sophia Loren never looked like a kid and the image shows one reason I'm so derisive of the Millennial obsession with nipples when they get so preciously twee about the matter but Loren was doing this fifty years ago.  From this Old School, it looks like the New School turned into an even Older School than came before me.

Someone interviewed Loren way back and said there was something about her which she didn't get after they had walked together around the city for some while.  After a while it dawned on her, Loren never glanced in store windows for her reflection to check her look.  The confidence you see in the picture was real.


There's not much reason to comment on news lately since there isn't much and it's highly-distorted.  Mostly the situation is to wait for whatever move Trump will actually make rather than staging some silly kangaroo court.  Mostly online and in standard news it's not clear whether they work to strengthen democracy or tear it apart.

Once again from the 60s, Gahan Wilson gives us the supremely clairvoyant view of the Democratic Party of 2016.


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