IF: pink
Not blue.
Archive of entries posted by joshpincusiscrying
DCS: bruno sammartino
My brother was a big fan of professional wrestling in the late 60s and early 70s. Every Saturday afternoon, he’d monopolize the television and watch match after match after brutal match featuring such celebrated names as Larry Zbyszko, Chief Jay Strongbow, Gorilla Monsoon, Handsome Jimmy Valiant and the champ, Bruno Sammartino. There was another wrestling …
IF: crown
“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.” — Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
DCS: sharon tate
Sadly, Sharon Tate is remembered more for her senseless murder instead of her budding and potential film career. Sharon, a native Texan, was entered in numerous beauty pageants as a child. As her family moved around the country, due to her father’s employ with the US Army, Sharon entered more pageants, eventually gaining “celebrity” status …
IF: monkey
“Abba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, dab” Means “Monk, I love but you” “Abba, daba, dab, ” in monkey talk Means “Chimp, I love you too” Then the big baboon, one night in June He married them, and very soon They went upon their abba daba honeymoon
DCS: ray milland
Ray Milland, the Oscar-winning star of 1945’s The Lost Weekend, was Paramount Studios highest-paid actor from 1934 to 1948. He made some memorable films — Dial M for Murder, The Major and the Minor, Beau Geste, Reap the Wild Wind and my mom’s favorite The Uninvited — and starred with some of Hollywood’s greatest leading ladies — Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, and Veronica …
IF: mushroom
I once had a friend who refused to eat mushrooms because she hated the squeaking sound she heard in her head when she chewed them. And that wasn’t even the weirdest thing about her.
DCS: estelita rodriguez
Fourteen-year old Cuban native Estelita Rodriguez signed a contract with MGM studios in 1942. She was dropped by the studio, however, just prior to filming her first picture. She moved to New York and signed a five-picture deal with Republic Pictures, a studio that produced Roy Rogers movies and specialized in Westerns. Her debut was in Along …
IF: rose
You better believe me. I’m a great big deal.
DCS: rachel corrie
In 2003, college senior Rachel Corrie traveled from her hometown of Olympia, Washington to Rafah, a combat zone in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Her goal was to make Rafah a “sister city” with Olympia. During her mission, she joined up with a pro-Palestinian activist group called International Solidarity Movement. The group opposed the Israel …