Fun Guy
I think I understand this. The art world has expanded in an interesting direction. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, grant access to information stored on highly secure blockchains. Only the keeper of the NFT can access an original file. People are paying mega-millions for such works. Here’s a still of Mike Winkelmann’s, a k a Beeple, Everydays: The First 5000 Days. The title represents 5000 his tireless practice in the computer arts. It sold for $69 million.
Headline from nypost.com: “California proposes curriculum on Aztec god honored by human sacrifice.” The name is Tezcatlipoca. Why not sacrifice politicians to him/her?
Headline from foxnews.com: “Couple handcuffs themselves together to work through relationship woes in 3-month experiment.” Appropriately, it began on Valentine’s Day. I doubt it’s 24/7 — still… They are from the Ukraine, man early 30’s, woman late 20’s. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the location was the Beatles’ Back in the USSR: “The Ukraine girls really knock me out…” Lennon and McCartney were speaking figuratively, of course. I was thinking literally.
Another fresh noir title hit the airwaves last night on Movies!, channel 5–2 on ota’s in NYC. Set during WWII, The Brighton Strangler (1945) has an interesting premise. After a stage actor gives his final performance as a serial killer, he suffers a head injury during a bombing raid by the Nazis. He becomes the fictional character. It ends predictably, running time only 67 minutes. I was unfamiliar with the leads, John Loder, who had a long career, and the lovely June Duprez, who had a short one. Loder’s run spanned 1925-’71. Duprez has only 19 credits, retiring after her second marriage. Loder was the fourth of brainy beauty Hedy Lamarr’s six husbands, she the third of his five wives. He was the father of two of her three children, and had three others. He passed away at 90 in 1988. Here he is:
And here’s Duprez, who passed at 66 in 1984:
And here’s Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949), her most famous screen role. What male wouldn’t have been tempted? Few men were her equal. She passed at 85 in 2000.
Great weather, decent sales. My thanks to the folks who bought books in Russian, including a translation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs in one edition. Here’s what sold in English: The Art of Being Bill: Bill Murray and the Many Faces of Awesome by Ezra Croft and Jennifer Raiser; a book on the martial arts whose title escapes me; illustrated kids editions of Oliver Twist and a Time magazine on science; She Made Me Laugh: Mother Teresa and the Call to Holiness by Stephanie Emmons. The best sale of the session was a Polish translation of a James Rollins thriller. Lulu still practices her native tongue, to the chagrin of her husband, Andy F-Bomb, and her son. The second best sale was of a kids book in Russian. The woman I stopped was impressed by my memory. She’d asked more than once.
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