Cody Harrison

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I would kill another Franco spy Fiction/Essays: The Gettysburg Review, J Journal, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, Santa Monica Review

From the Star Trek TOS classic Trouble with Tribbles 2.15 in which harmless but voracious space rodents eat up a space granary and overpopulate the ship, eventually falling through an air shaft right onto Captain Kirk's head
Vincent moved aside Obach's strong breath with a gesture of his hand. "How can we take such large profits for selling trash,
The fancy prawn from I am love
That scene when Scaramouche´s rival turns his back on him
The scene in Before Sunrise when the Germans say they speak English but would prefer to speak German for a change
Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses, Moravia’s The Conformist and Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s El laberinto de los espíritus
Walter Huston as Scratch aka The Devil in The Devil & Daniel Webster aka All That Money can Buy
The Van der Luydens in Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton based them off the powerful Van Rensselaer family, a prominent Dutch family in New York.
I sat down and, at once, surprised at not having observed properly, I realized that the cloth was not at all cleared. In the center of the table there was a big, fine silver tray, and in the center of the tray, surrounded at a few inches distance by a halo of little pieces of white cardboard, each of which bore a letter of the alphabet, written in red pencil, there stood a solitary champagne glass. 'What's that?' I asked Alberto. 'Why, that's the big surprise I told you about!' Alberto exclaimed. 'It's absolutely amazing: all you have to do is have three or four people, in a circle, who each put a finger on the lip of the glass and, immediately, back and forth, one letter after another, it answers.'
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics and The Bomb and José Revueltas’ El Apando
Phil Burbank from The Power of the Dog
Five books: Geoff Dyer's Zona, J.M. Tyree's novella The Haunted Screen, Our Secret Life at the Movies by J.M. Tyree and Michael McGriff, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, and 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
Scott Williams Winters as Clark, who tries to intimidate Matt Damon's character by repeating what he's just read.
Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories (which everybody attests with surprise when they actually read it is two novels) and famed detective fiction writer Walter Mosely's follow up to Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death.
The first page of my story "Phanerogamie" in the Spring 2026 Santa Monica Review
The first two paragraphs of my new essay from Denver Quarterly Vol 60 No. 1
A statue of Mary with a bunch of sharp knife/sword designs on her
Taking this opportunity with this silly meme to post the big all knowing rock portal in City on the Edge of Forever (TOS.1.28) a very good ep that still doesn't hit for me the way it hits for other, although I do like big opalescent portal rock, and happy to post rock
Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad. "Take heart./No trouble about the arms. I only wish/that I could hide him from the power of death/in his black hour--"
A little One Story booklet with the short story We Are Sorry for Your Suffering by Joy Deva Baglio
From "Mrs. Spring Fragrance," a story by Sui Sin Far, in which a preoccupied Chinese-American character provides a cutting critique of a version of the American Dream as pronounced by his white neighbor.
Robert Redford, Tony Ferrara and Wilford Brimley
My review of All The President's Men (1976) on letterbox that I'm posting in its entirety bc I thought it was clever and also I'm not going to be able to characterize it well in a few characters; the full text is this: "Oddly enough I'd never really thought All the President's Men was a real movie. I knew about the garage scenes with Deep Throat, but perhaps I thought they were recreations of real events from an Errol Morris type documentary on Watergate. I didn't know that that garage meme and dozens of others have their initial sources in this Pakula newspaper thriller. Which I suppose makes the movie "imitable." When I put it on, I found it incredibly absorbing. Just sat down and was laser focused on it for two and a half hours. Came out of it thinking terrifying thoughts like this should be a miniseries. Or a limited series on Netflix. Straight up imp of the perverse type thoughts."
A still from Virtuoso, Voyager 6.13, in which the doctor (Robert PIcardo) a computer program, finds his penchant for opera appreciated by an entire planet of snobs, who quickly tire of his virtuosity and move on to care about something else. I think it's a pretty good episode actually.
A cover of Carlos Ruiz's El Juego del Ángel, with a mildly creepy cover that belies just HOW creepy it gets
A cool graphic tee of the movie The Red Shoes, a film about a woman who must choose between life and dance! For a graphic tee it's pretty well designed, having a large image of the ballet-within-a-film sequence in The Red Shoes, in which the dancers are in black and white and the shoes are bright red. It also has two famous lines by the villainous emcee: "You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never." And, "A great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit."
A child’s drawing of a blue suited person (almost certainly meant to be a baby in a onesie) whose face is emanating eerie light like in the poster of The Thing (1982) (almost certainly supposed to be hair).
Julio Cortázar's Bestiario, in the Alfaguara imprint which are always nice, the cover has a medieval knight being attacked by his own arm which is a serpent, and it has in a conservative serif font the author's name and then slightly smaller the name of the collection; the other book is Yuri Herrera's Señales que precederán al fin del mundo, about one third third of the cover is red and covered with a chunky white sans-serif font, the author's name, the name of the novel and its editorial Periférica, below a street scene copyright Corina Arranz, in which the word Muerte plays a large role
Star Trek Enterprise “A Night in Sickbay” 2.5 Captain Archer is forced to do a sacred alien ritual shitless with a chainsaw
A Nahvalur Nautilus
Claude Rains under bandages as The Invisible Man
A basket full of ripe pecans!
Judex (1963), in which our hero Judex goes to a fancy ball dressed as a bird dramatically carrying an apparently but not actually dead dove.
Tommy Lee Jones in Joel Schumacher's The Client, where her does this with his hands in many different formations
Will Leitch's Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Book A, 8th Edition, and Muerte súbita by Álvaro Enrigue
An engraving of an ancient image of the forest god Humbaba. His face was said to look like organ meat.
Two Penguin Editions from the library. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Analects. Both have the regular Penguin Editions cover with the two inches of black and the title in white italics and the orange sanserif author name. But because Gilgamesh doesn't have an author it just has the title. The cover of Gilgamesh has an image of a carving of the Bull of Heaven. The Analects has a domestic scene.
The poem "Texas" from Borges Obras Completas, published in 1974. The lines in question is "Name of that those days that are not swept away: San Jacinto/and that other Thermopylae, The Alamo"
A description of the geriatric incompetence of the Soviet Politburo in the 80s in the notes of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
VII.21 of Confucius’ Analects: “The topics the Master did not speak of were prodigies, force, disorder and gods.”
Lines from Stephen Vincent Benét's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" from the climactic trial scene. Dan'l Webster's brow looked dark as a thundercloud. "Pressed or not, you shall not have this man," he thundered. "Mr. Stone is an American citizen, and no American citizen may be forced into the service of a foreign prince. We fought England for that in '12 and we'll fight all hell for it again!" "Foreign?" said the stranger. "And who calls me a foreigner?" "Well, I never yet heard of the dev—of your claiming American citizenship," said Dan'l Webster with surprise. "And who with better right?" said the stranger, with one of his terrible smiles. "When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner, and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself—and of the best descent—for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours." "Aha!" said Dan'l Webster, with the veins standing out in his forehead. "Then I stand on the Constitution! I demand a trial for my client!"