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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

EXchange names on the screen

[From Nocturne (dir. Edward L. Marin, 1946). Click for a larger view.]

This page fills the screen. The setting is Los Angeles, where GL meant GLadstone and CR could have meant CRestor, CRestview, or CRestwood.

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“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”

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the thoughts blended in
ORANGE CRATE ART pro-
hibits the use of them.

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