Monthly Archives: November 2012

What a tangled web we weave

I love what the group has to say about The Black Dahlia. Brenna brought up the Joker connection, which was brilliant, but also pointed out the two-cop connection to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Sarah went into detail about the real … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hardboiled Week 14: Black Dahlia, Alternative History, and the Rise of Smut and Gore

Audio of Hardboiled discussion of James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia 11-29-2012
Tonight’s class was a bit low energy given how late we are in the semester and how much reading I have thrown at the #emoboilers—but as they say what doesn’t … Continue reading Continue reading

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Crazy Is As Crazy Does

I have to say, I was very taken aback and appalled by Lee’s death. Bucky’s hunt for him started to scare me in the first place with how neurotic he was being, but what he learned was even more frightening. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Pinks and Kinks 2012-11-29 18:19:00

The riots of the Zoot Suits started in 1943 when young Latino men wanted to distinguished themselves by wearing the same “duck tail” haircut and “zoot suits”. These were the pachucos. The military men did not like these men, and … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Black Dahlia

The book does not exactly pick off right away, because it sets time to talk about the main characters and show their character and personality. One of the biggest things that is shown is Lee’s tough cop attitude. He doesn’t … Continue reading Continue reading

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Black Dhalia

Just for a reference of what a black dahlia looks like. I think its interesting to see the almost black-rotten core dressed with deep red flowers. Maybe this will be a theme to come up later in the book; corruption/rotting from within. Once again I found that the beginning ofThe Black Dahlia was very slow […] Continue reading

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The Black Dahlia

Prior to reading the book, I had heard of the Black Dahlia. I knew that it involved the gruesome murder of a young woman, but i had no idea about extent of the brutality. While reading the description of the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hardboiled Week 14: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, and Other Twisted Obsessions

I can remember the exact moment I heard about James Ellroy for the first time. It was the Fall of 1994 and I was working at UCLA’s Audio Visual Services scheduling AV needs for the campus community when my co-worker … Continue reading Continue reading

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New Gangster Squad Movie

:O So Hardboiled!!

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Wiki editing

I thought it might be helpful to look at the editing process for Wikipedia and see what kind of information they need for references. I looked at the page for Sara Paretsky, and noticed that it made no mention of … Continue reading Continue reading

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