Saturday July 8, 2006

For Kevin Bacon’s birthday

New Game:
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Roderick MacLeish, author of the classic Prince Ombra, died at 80 on Saturday, July 1, 2006.  From an obituary:

“‘When I think back over my career, I know that my father was a tremendous inspiration,’ said his son, an attorney who represented abuse victims in a settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.”

Related material:  Log24 entries of May 31 and June 1, 2006, and the remarks of Raymond Chandler on wainscoting in The Big Sleep.  See also the following:

Sources: Log24 on 12/31/02 and 10/30/05,
and wainscoting from “Mystic River.”