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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line VI

I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line V

I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line IV

I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous, butchered body … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line III

I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous, butchered body … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line II

I have ceased blogging in real time as I read “Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles” and am taking requests for particular pages. Wolfe is using the “Laura” … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Request Line

I have stopped blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles. Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Deuteronomy 33:24

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous body is discovered and … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Pleas and Thank-Yous

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles. Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous, butchered body is found … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, The Countdown Begins

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous, butchered body is found … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Lines of History

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is found … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, The Lady in Red

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is discovered … Continue reading

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Princess Rajah

I don’t want to say anything to spoil the surprise. Another snip of film from Edison, c. 1904.

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Evil Genius

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is found … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Tell It to the Marines

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is discovered … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Imagine My Surprise

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Crime That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is discovered … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, The Numbers Game

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format in which the anonymous, butchered body is discovered … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Slinging Hash

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob (and were are those pesky thugs, anyway?), the Mogul (missing in action so far) and the Murder That Transfixed (fixed, yes, but transfixed, … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Trying to Make It Real Compared to What

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe is using the “Laura” format, in which the anonymous, butchered body is discovered … Continue reading

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Blogging the Wolfe Book, Family Ties

I’m blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files,” more properly titled “Stuff I Scraped Out of ‘Severed’ Thanks to John Gilmore, Who Calls My Book ‘a True Crime Classic’ and ‘Crap’ ” (If … Continue reading

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Acrobats

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DlwAAAEBwZKJSCLV1FyCOYE1YAMWrPouE5wKbCyZRY8lCyIQoLowu5TeWScVQptvXc6Qoh5jBD1EkPJCGlVG1n4bpXNGh2XxPD_fjWY4mgR1Zy1eXcbTE5kcoPH8ns78r1eH2FbRVLGWnfx8pqoPeqs80yKH67NfXmiJ7Z6Ja0mU3NVlWaA3R18Dv18cbVSevZ1ellKjxDrIIG0D18uE6bhOuNfo%26sigh%3DkwxJKz6zGChG7Q7mpY5EqH-vPec%26begin%3D0%26len%3D122566%26docid%3D696846189715300295&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3D2473d1209e2ffe3a%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1142977903%26sigh%3DSOyXHx0gc7hRju_PaUL-cfzmExE&playerId=696846189715300295 Americans at the turn of the century lacked many things, but they had some amazing live entertainment. Here’s a snip of a performance courtesy of Edison Studios, 1904. These guys rock. I have watched them dozens of times now … Continue reading

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