Games
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Here's a game. I've compiled a list of essential "film noir" nouns and adjectives. Your job is to assemble them into the titles of noir films. Nouns: city, death, shadow, night, fear, heat, murder, crime, kiss, street, gun, thief, window, sidewalk, body. Adjectives: naked, black, evil, strange, wrong, lonely, raw, secret, violent, sudden. Using an…
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While in the Bay Area, I visited SF's Museum of Asian Art, where this grotesque, beautiful piece of maximum conspicuous consumption was on display. It's a silver Landau made for the Maharaja of Bhavnagar around the turn of the last century. Needless to say, I was utterly appalled by the waste and extravagance though dazzled…