Jack the Raver
Point and Shoot, FL (YU)—Jack the Raver is Scrib’s doppelgänger, or alter ego. One of his noms de plume.
Blaster Al drew a picture of him, from the author’s photo on the back cover of Screed. Or the front cover of Forty.
With the stub of a pencil for a nose and slobber running down his chin.
The
What did they want with a raving reporter. Their readers all watched Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.
Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter.
Bill O’Reilly.
Westbrook Pegler. In Cradle Will Rock, Hearst opposes unions. And FDR.
My favorite scenes are Nelson Rockefeller (played by John Cusack) dancing with Diego Rivera’s models and Rivera (played by Rubén Blades) saying that Rockefeller reminds him of Englishmen hunting foxes on their horses.
At the end, when
the workmen bust up Rivera’s mural, in
It reminded me of the scene in The Wax Boom when his fellow soldiers, who don’t know where Atman is getting all the wax, follow him, and he goes into a bombed-out cathedral, or church, at least, and there is a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a shaft of moonlight is shining down on it, through a hole in the roof, it’s very symbolic, holy, and Atman smashes the Virgin in the head, with his rifle butt, and the statue is made of wax.
Another mystery solved.
Scrib’s dealings with editors and agents are always like a rifle-butt to the head. An axe in the face, a pneumatic drill, a jackhammer. Apropos of Black Jack.
It was Lenin’s portrait in the mural Rockefeller objected to.
It was his mural.
He bought it and paid for it.
He could do with it as he liked.
It also reminded me of the scene in The Woman Chaser where the director, Richard Hudson, cuts his movie, The Man Who Got Away, downs to a perfect 60 minutes, and the studio wouldn’t run his film because it was four reels, instead of six, so he burns down the studio, and ends up in an insane asylum, watching his movie, and cackling dementedly.
The book was originally called The Director. The protagonist was a used car salesman who wanted to do something creative with his life.
He tried dancing The Miraculous Mandarin for his mother, and reading “Burnt Norton,” the first poem of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.
But the movie was his masterpiece.
Why does a column have to be 750 words? Why can’t it be 500 words?
It has to be exacely three pages, double spaced, in 12 point type, with 1¼” margins, left and right, and 1” margins, top and bottom.
Column is short for column-inches of type.
A column is one newspaper column wide by so many column-inches long.
If it’s not the right length, it will be harder to fit the art in, for the advertisements.
If it’s the right length, the advertisements will fit in, because ads are sold by area, too.
Once, this caused
an ad Scrib ran to be hyphenated funny, so Garage Band Books was hyphenated
Garage Band Boo- ks, and Scrib freaked out, thinking that Homeland über alles Securrity would think he was
selling home-grown marijuana across state lines, growing it in
You didn’t want to get the Homeland über alles Security people after you.
They were relentless.
They were as relentless as the FBI in Dillinger.
Dillinger’s weenie in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institute.
Butch Hornsby talks to a woman he is trying to pick up in a bar about the Smithsonian Institute in Demo.