Robert Mitchum, eat your heart out (for sneerpout and <user sit

sneerpout's film poll this week, by its inclusion of The Night of the Hunter (and Robert Mitchum's tattooed knuckles therein), put me in mind of an encounter I had on a train almost a decade ago.

( In which Nick meets a chainsmoking Scotsman named Mick, from Dundee )

L-O-V-E / H-A-T-E it wasn't, that's for certain.

Robert Mitchum, eat your heart out (for sneerpout and mr_tom)

sneerpout's film poll this week, by its inclusion of The Night of the Hunter (and Robert Mitchum's tattooed knuckles therein), put me in mind of an encounter I had on a train almost a decade ago.

( In which Nick meets a chainsmoking Scotsman named Mick, from Dundee )

L-O-V-E / H-A-T-E it wasn't, that's for certain.

Recommended reading: Safe Area Gorazde

Just finished reading Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde. I found it almost as powerful as Art Spiegelman's Maus, and arguably a more accomplished piece of journalism.

I'm going to have to get Palestine as well now.

Recommended reading: Safe Area Gorazde

Just finished reading Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde. I found it almost as powerful as Art Spiegelman's Maus, and arguably a more accomplished piece of journalism.

I'm going to have to get Palestine as well now.