X-Ray Milland

 

With help of some eye-drops named "X"
a scientist doesn't need specs
He starts to look through
what comes into view
and acts just like Oedipus Rex.

Ray Milland stars in Roger Corman's sci-fi vision, X-The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1966).

Shrill Wind

A wind from the North is prevailin'

hot air that is blowin' from Palin

We aren't believin'

her reasons for leavin'

Perhaps she'll shove off and go whalin'

On book tour she's hoping to go
or TV to host her own show
It matters not where
We really don't care
But wish that away she would blow

Though claims that she puts "Country First"
on subject she isn't well versed
Her family's creed
was once to secede*
That's patriotism reversed

Like Limbaugh and radical right
this yahoo craves spotlight that's bright
But media hogs
when ideologues
will shrivel exposed to the light

*Source: Los Angeles Times Opinion piece by Rosa Brooks, 9/4/08

Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska
Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports
Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we're not ne-
cessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP's
founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: "The fires of
hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American
government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag."

The McCain campaign denies that Palin ever joined the AIP. But
while it is in dispute whether she attended its 1994 convention,
she did visit the 2000 one and addressed AIP conventions in 2006
and 2008. Her husband, Todd, was a registered AIP member from
1995 to 2002, and the AIP leadership certainly considers her one
of their own. -Rosa Brooks

For Poor Eyes Only

A doctor with coke-bottle glasses
at ladies, petite, would make passes
The madman, myopic
liked gals microscopic
and miniaturized all his lasses



Dr. Cyclops is a 1940 sci-fi horror film from Paramount
directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and starring Albert Dekker.

Ocular Shocker

These aliens hid in a cloud
their hideous deeds to enshroud
They lopped off a head
and brought back the dead
while making a world scream out loud!


No, really. The cyclopean aliens kill by decapitation and
use a radioactive cloud to reanimate the dead. Just watch
The Crawling Eye (Quentin Lawrence, 1958). Look out,
you've just crawled into Eyeball Week at Limerwrecks.
Did you eyeball that segue?

The Eye's Had It

Their visions appear in my head
Some yellowed, or bloodshot with red
My windows to souls
are deep empty holes
These eyeballs are portals of dread



Images (top to bottom): René Magritte, Le Faux Miroir; Salvador Dalí
and Hitchcock, Spellbound; Dali and Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou.
Well, that cuts it for Surrealism Week at Limerwrecks.

Warpathic

The Visage Of War, Salvador Dalí, 1940

A horror beyond peaceful ken
a war is a monster of men
It maims and it kills
and life's blood it spills
Forget and it rises again

I Love You, Man Ray

Now here is an odd artist pair
Intensely, the the two of them stare
These jokers both pose
at modern art shows
possessing surreal savoir faire


Salvador Dali and Man Ray

Hot Doggerel

A hearse carried Oscar G. Mayer
encased in eternal attire
With angels at wheel
the Wiener Mobile
played jingles by heavenly choir



Oscar G. Mayer, credited with taking his family's
small meats and cold cut business and helping turn
it into a major conglomerate, has died. He was 95.

Oscar Mayer was actually the third member of his
family to have the famous name. His namesake
grandfather started the company. CBS2

Stripe Dream

A series of parallel lines
like those from a fork's dragging tines
A dream sequence quest
for mem'ry repressed
through Freudian Dali designs




Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (i945) used Freudian
analysis and symbolic dream imagery like no film before.

Grilling Me Softly

When watches hang limp from a tree
the painting must be by Dali
"How can time advance
when crawling with ants?"
we ask, passing time by the sea



Sal threw himself into his work
with paintings, surreal, went berserk
In self-portrait, soft
by crutch, held aloft
a crisp strip of bacon does lurk

The Mind's Eyestrain

Like images plucked from a dream
some pictures are not what they seem
A trick on the eye
a joke or a lie
adrift on subconsciousness stream



Salvador Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus,
The Slave Market with Disappearing Bust
of Voltaire, and Swans Reflecting Elephants

This Is Not A Pipe Dream

It looks like a pipe but it's not
Can't smoke it, it never gets hot
Unless it's caught fire
in gallery pyre
this painting will end in dry rot

Welcome to Surrealism Week at Limerwrecks

Gale Storm, R.I.P.

A moniker used to perform
the stage name supreme was Gale Storm
Gale acted and sang
without Sturm und Drang
Her only name rival, Rip Torn

Norm Knott



Above: In My Little Margie, with Charles Farrell; Below: With Dan Duryea in Underworld Story

Before starring as My Little Margie and in The Gale Storm Show on TV in the 1950s, actress and singer Gale Storm appeared in many films, including Foreign Agent (William Beaudine, 1942), Revenge of the Zombies (Steve Sekeley, 1943), Abandoned (Joseph H. Newman, 1948), Underworld Story (Cy Endfield, 1950), Between Midnight and Dawn (Gordon Douglas, 1950) and Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, 1948), in which she was the voice on a tape recorder.

Born "Josephine Cottle" in Texas, Storm won producer Jesse Lasky's "Gate-way to Hollywood" contest in 1939, also winning her famous stage name.