Dahlias as purchased on a walk with the dogs yesterday:
We saw them passing by a house with a large sign in its garden, “Hothouse Dahlias”, and a couple of buckets of cut flowers on the fence, payment by the honor system. So, a present for the Mrs.
Coincidentally the movie The Black Dahlia is now in theaters. I enjoyed the book and would pay to see Aaron Eckhart if he were playing Betty Short herself. The poor reviews might give me pause, but most have the common complaint that the film does not have as much to do with the Dahlia herself, as they had been led to believe. Fair enough, but anyone who is particularly interested in the murder probably is aware of Ellroy’s obsession with the case and his conflation of it with his murdered mother.
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