http://www.lataco.com/taco/raymond-chandler-dead-50-years-ago-today Celebrating the taco lifestyle in Los Angeles, California, USA Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.lataco.com/taco/raymond-chandler-dead-50-years-ago-today/comment-page-1#comment-234097 Greenway7x Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:24:25 +0000 http://www.lataco.com/?p=19784#comment-234097 A tip of the fedora--or, in my case, an appreciative flip of the net-veil on my femme fatale picture hat, to Chandler, of course, and to Eric Redson and TACO for the trip. I was a tyke of the Postwar Era, experimented on for the greater bad of insuring plenty of military-industrial zombie-cattle in the perpetual war$ to come. We eat, drink, breathe and wrap ourselves in petrochemicals--from crude to JPL satanists' rocket fuel--in LA; our blood is noir; it's a wonder that we live and don't look worse than Dorian Grey's portrait*. Chandler was a oilman and saw what happened when the derricks replaced the groves. He believed and perpetuated the lie that the LA Basin was a desert held off by sprinklers; he bought that from... Well, see CHINATOWN and study its roots: Half true story by regional history and half true story inspired by the history of the actors. Welcome to LA! *TACOS: Possibly a cure. A tip of the fedora–or, in my case, an appreciative flip of the net-veil on my femme fatale picture hat, to Chandler, of course, and to Eric Redson and TACO for the trip. I was a tyke of the Postwar Era, experimented on for the greater bad of insuring plenty of military-industrial zombie-cattle in the perpetual war$ to come. We eat, drink, breathe and wrap ourselves in petrochemicals–from crude to JPL satanists’ rocket fuel–in LA; our blood is noir; it’s a wonder that we live and don’t look worse than Dorian Grey’s portrait*. Chandler was a oilman and saw what happened when the derricks replaced the groves. He believed and perpetuated the lie that the LA Basin was a desert held off by sprinklers; he bought that from… Well, see CHINATOWN and study its roots: Half true story by regional history and half true story inspired by the history of the actors. Welcome to LA!
*TACOS: Possibly a cure.

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