http://trilema.com/2012/mean-streets/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 15 May 2026 12:01:32 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2012/mean-streets/#comment-156059 Pimp. By Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim. Adnotated without permission. Chapter 5 -- The jungle fauna. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:32:04 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=43249#comment-156059 [...] Schelling point for the pencilled-in names to attach to, Jimmy Mariangelo becomes 'Mook', and then Jimmy Mook for his friends. It's true that rural fakers, lamers and losers try to import this purely urban [...] [...] Schelling point for the pencilled-in names to attach to, Jimmy Mariangelo becomes 'Mook', and then Jimmy Mook for his friends. It's true that rural fakers, lamers and losers try to import this purely urban [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2012/mean-streets/#comment-154300 Night And The City on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:42:15 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=43249#comment-154300 [...] creates an exquisite knockaround girl, and De Niro's continuation jerkoff's even stronger than the original version -- who ever saidiii youth's a boon ? It ain't anything like a boon, not unless you're a baboon or [...] [...] creates an exquisite knockaround girl, and De Niro's continuation jerkoff's even stronger than the original version -- who ever saidiii youth's a boon ? It ain't anything like a boon, not unless you're a baboon or [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2012/mean-streets/#comment-147914 Becket (1964) on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:18:12 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=43249#comment-147914 [...] Stronger alternatives are really support miscast, major minors like say Keitel (but specifically in Mean Streets, and there only) or Byrne -- in Miller's Crossing. The truly strong alternatives, Paul Newman, E. [...] [...] Stronger alternatives are really support miscast, major minors like say Keitel (but specifically in Mean Streets, and there only) or Byrne -- in Miller's Crossing. The truly strong alternatives, Paul Newman, E. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2012/mean-streets/#comment-141734 Saturday Night Fever on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:20:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=43249#comment-141734 [...] every character in Saturday Night Fever has at least two cousins in common with every character in Mean Streets. The setting is stolidly authentic and perfectly [...] [...] every character in Saturday Night Fever has at least two cousins in common with every character in Mean Streets. The setting is stolidly authentic and perfectly [...]

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