Brian said it was a little long for a blog title, but it just stuck in my head while nothing else did. It's lifted from a nifty little essay by Aldous Huxley entitled Los Angeles: A Rhapsody. It's brief, yet divided into "movements" which appeals to the musician in me. The phrase refers the the primitive special effects he witnesses being created in a movie studio. I read the essay in David Ulin's Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology.
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I don't know what Brian is talking about. Toy Tanks and Chinese Firecrackers is explosive, boyish, earnest, awesome.
My dad had these HEAVY metal army men (from WWII era?) with movable joints and surprisingly detailed faces that we kept in a shoe box on the 3rd floor. One of them was stretched out as if in a ditch, rifle cocked. The little tanks actually shot real bullets!
It's only 5 words, no? Maybe 50 or 500 words is too long for a blog title. Maybe.
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