Saturday, September 29, 2012

Free for Kindle for a Limited Time

Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: Queen of the Screwball MysteryWho Was That Lady? Craig Rice: Queen of the Screwball Mystery: Jeffrey Marks: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: What goes up must come down, and Craig Rice’s meteoric rise to the top of the mystery writing heap by 1946 was rivaled only by her rapid descent into semi-obscurity. Her face once graced the cover of Time magazine, but today her books are found in second hand stores. 

The mystery surrounding Rice was almost as puzzling as her books. Where was she born? What was her given name? What novels and short stories did she publish? Who did she marry and how many times? How many children did she have? Where did the penname of Craig Rice emanate from? How did she die? In the forty years since her death, the answers to these questions were buried under piles of confusion, lies, and exaggeration. In the 20th century how could these basic questions of a person’s life be so vague? 

Jeffrey Marks began a quest to learn the answers. His research took the better part of a decade. He traced Rice’s oeuvre back to original manuscripts to determine authorship. He tracked down relative, friends, and other writers to learn answers on Craig’s name, her heritage, and her descent from superstardom into drinking, mental illness, and trouble with the law.

Irving Adler, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Irving Adler, a former New York City teacher who became a prolific writer of books on math and science for young people after being forced from the classroom during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, died on Saturday in Bennington, Vt. He was 99.

Michael O'Hare, R. I. P.

Airlock Alpha: Michael O'Hare, who played Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair during a single season of "Babylon 5" only to reprise the character a few times in later seasons, has died. He was 60.

Song of the Day

For A Few Dollars More (Theme by Ennio Morricone) - YouTube:

Arthur O. Sulzberger, R. I. P.

 - NYTimes.com: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper’s founding in 1851, died on Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 86.

Looper

If you have any interest at all in seeing Looper, you probably already know the premise.  It's a time-travel story.  Time travel is discovered and immediately made illegal, but in 2074 gangsters use it to dispose of people they want to get rid of.  The victims are cuffed, hooded, and sent to a spot in Kansas outside a cane field.  Their executioners, known as Loopers, are waiting for them.  The victims appear, get shot, and get disposed of.  One of the Loopers, Joe, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, finds himself facing his own future self, played by Bruce Willis, who's missing the hood and cuffs.  Willis avoids the killing shot, flattens Gordon Levitt, and escapes.

It seems that 2074 isn't a happy place (not that 2044 is, either).  A boss called The Rainmaker is sending all the old Loopers back to die, and while capturing Bruce, the men sent to get him have killed his wife.  So Bruce is going to kill The Rainmaker in 2044 to save his wife's life.  Time-travel paradoxes?  That's just the beginning.  That's also all I'm going to say about the plot.  The screenplay has some nice surprises, and it's best to let the movie spring them on you.

Gordon-Levitt has a good time playing a young Bruce Willis, and Willis has a good time playing an old Gordon-Levitt.  Emily Blunt shows up for a nice turn, and there's a kid actor named Pierce Gagnon, who's really good.  Jeff Daniels is great as the crime boss in 2044.  If you like good SF movies or action movies or just plain good movies, give this one a try.

CSI: Mexico

Police in Mexico identify body by DNA found in maggots

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A Kickstarter Project of Interest

Turning Sentences Into Words by Alison Nussbaum — Kickstarter: A bit of hardboiled history will come alive in this collection of short stories by my father, bank-robber-turned-writer Al Nussbaum.

10 Literary Authors Who Illustrated Their Own Work

10 Literary Authors Who Illustrated Their Own Work

Rejected bait: 17 recent Oscar-ready films that walked away empty-handed

Rejected bait: 17 recent Oscar-ready films that walked away empty-handed  

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Nick Quarry (Marvin H. Albert), The Vendetta, Gold Medal, 1973

10 Historical Misconceptions That Really Need To Be Cleared Up

10 Historical Misconceptions That Really Need To Be Cleared Up

Something to Look Forward To

Comet 'brighter than the moon' will fly-by the Earth in 2013 

5 World-Famous Products That Are Shameless Rip-Offs

5 World-Famous Products That Are Shameless Rip-Offs

Chris Economaki, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Chris Economaki, whose gravelly broadcast voice and prolific pen — specifically, his manual Royal typewriter — narrated the rise of auto racing from county-fair dirt tracks to a global multibillion-dollar business, died on Friday in a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. He was 91.

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Female teacher at elementary school 'brought meth into school to get high before class' 

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Gene Autry's Cowboy Code

GeneAutry.com - Gene Autry: Gene Autry's Cowboy Code

One of the Greats

Today is the birthday of Gene Autry, born Orvon Grover Autry, near Tioga, Texas (1907). He starred in more than 40 movies, making his silver screen debut as part of a quartet in the movie In Old Santa Fe (1934) and became nationally known as the original "singing cowboy," often riding his own horse, Champion. He left Hollywood during World War II and served as a transport pilot, flying risky missions over the Himilayas near Burma. After the war, he started his own production company when the film studio wouldn't dissolve his contract for military service.

10 Famous Musicians’ Geeky Hobbies

10 Famous Musicians’ Geeky Hobbies

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

Putnam man says he killed girlfriend for waking him 

Scaramouche

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Friday, September 28, 2012

This Day in History

This Day in History — History.com — What Happened Today in History: On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to boost his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. Williams, who spent his entire career with the Sox, played his final game exactly 19 years later, on September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park and hit a home run in his last time at bat, for a career total of 521 homeruns.

Croc Update (Twins Edition)

Snap! Twin baby crocodiles hatch from same egg in China 

Or Maybe Not

25 Ways Celebrity Closets Are Different From Yours

Song of the Day

The Blasters - Marie Marie - YouTube:

I Haven't Seen Most of Them Even Once

50 Greatest Films You'll Only Watch Once

Why ALF Is the Most Tragic Fictional Character Ever

Why ALF Is the Most Tragic Fictional Character Ever 

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H.P. Lovecraft's The Tomb (For Beginning Readers)

H.P. Lovecraft's The Tomb (For Beginning Readers)

First It Was the Hot Sauce Tantrum . . . .

Cold mashed potatoes lead to assault at Bradenton restaurant

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

Man Arrested For Washing Cursing Girlfriend's Mouth Out With Dawn Liquid Dish Detergent 

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

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Will Henry (Henry William Allen), Who Rides with Wyatt, Bantam, 1956

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Cowboys to open nation's first Victoria's Secret inside a sports venue

The Literary Canon as Graphic Novel

The Literary Canon as Graphic Novel

12 Beloved Children’s Authors Who Also Wrote for Grown-Ups

12 Beloved Children’s Authors Who Also Wrote for Grown-Ups 

I Miss the Old Days

Beach fashions, 1950 

To Live and Dine in L. A.

The Raw Story: A US chef was convicted of second degree murder after he admitted to slow-cooking his wife’s body for four days to get rid of the evidence, while claiming she had died accidentally.

J.K’s Rowling New Book Plus 25 More Stories of British Provincial Life

Deadfolk by Charlie WilliamsAbeBooks: She’s back. J.K. Rowling’s new novel, The Casual Vacancy, has finally been published but Harry Potter and Hogwarts are nowhere to be seen. Rowling’s first novel for adults takes on the intricacies of English provincial life.

News You Can Use

Take time to know difference between a gator and a crocodile 

Forgotten Books: Red Dragon -- Wade Curtis (Jerry Pournelle)

I don't remember where I picked this one up, but it's the second of two books about Paul Crane, a free-lance engineer who, in the first book, Red Heroin, is coerced into working for the CIA under the threat of going to prison if he refuses.  In this one, he's been out of work for a while.  The CIA offers payment if he'll work for them again, and though he's still a very reluctant spy,  he agrees to pose as a traitor who has the plans for some new laser technology that he's willing to sell to the Chinese.  As you might expect, to make his cover secure, the FBI is kept in the dark about things, so they're out to stop Crane any way they can.  

There's quite a bit about about sailing in the book, so if you like that sort of thing, you'll get plenty of it.  To me it started to seem like padding after a while, but Curtis/Pournelle makes up for it at the end with some really nice chase/pursuit sequences in an experimental plane.  

This was a sort of middling book for me.  It's okay, and Crane's all right as a character, but there's nothing to make it stand out.  It's just as well the Pournelle gave up on spy fiction and turned  his hand to SF.  He's done a lot better work in that field.  I'd recommend this only as a curiosity, and cheap copies can be found easily on the Internet.

The Thief of Bagdad

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

I Report, You Decide

Is This the Worst Death Scene in Movie History?

No Comment Department

The Raw Story: Couples who share housework duties run a higher risk of divorce than couples where the woman does most of the chores, a Norwegian study sure to get tongues wagging showed on Thursday. 

The divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 percent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work.

Get a Rope!

Mother arrested after returning late library books

Hat tip to Toby O'Brien.

Harlan Ellison Interview

HARLAN ELLISON: EVERYTHING IS AWFUL 

And the Four Horsemen are Saddling Up

Lil Wayne overtakes Elvis for Hot 100 chart appearances

Bacon Shortage Update

 Slate Magazine: There Will Be No Bacon Shortage

The 2012 Golden Derringer Award

Kevin's Corner: NEWS --- The 2012 Golden Derringer Award: As announced yesterday by Short Mystery Fiction Society President Tom Sweeney….. The SMFS Golden Derringer committee has voted on the three writers nominated last spring, and has selected Bill Pronzini as the recipient of the 2012 Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award.

Song of the Day

T-Bones - "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" - YouTube:

Target Lancer -- Max Allan Collins

I'm pretty sure Nate Heller knows every major player and has been involved with every major crime in the 20th century.  This time he's mixed up in an attempt to assassinate John F. Kennedy.  No, not that attempt.  The one in Chicago (as you can see on the jacket to the left).  Maybe you didn't know there was an assassination attempt in Chicago.  Not much has been written about it, but you can bet that Collins and his associate George Hagenauer researched it just as meticulously as they've researched all his other novels.  


It's fascinating stuff, and it's interesting how certain characters show up.  Jack Ruby, for one.  Lee Harvey Oswald for another.  They really were in Chicago when Kennedy was supposed to be in a parade there.  Even the fictional characters are based on people who where really there, and a lot of the story happened pretty much as it plays out in the novel, as Collins explains in his afterword.  You might not be much of a believer in conspiracies, but don't be surprised if you change your mind after reading this novel.  

The story moves fast, it has a great cast of characters, and it's entirely believable.   Another fine addition to the Heller series, and one that has me eager to read what comes next, since the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy lie ahead.  You can bet that Heller will have a part to play in the investigations of those two crimes and that Collins' take on them will be as fresh and surprising as this one.

San Francisco Leads the Way

San Francisco Is America's Best City in 2012 

Hat tip to Tom Neary.

5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children's Songs

5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children's Songs 

25 Beautiful Vintage Theater Posters

25 Beautiful Vintage Theater Posters 

It Worked Better when George Clooney was Involved

Three former employees arrested after botched Ocean's Eleven-style raid on Atlantis resort casino in Bahamas 

As You Wish: Little-Known Facts About The Princess Bride

As You Wish: Little-Known Facts About The Princess Bride on Its 25th Anniversary 

The Top 10 Horror Stories

The Top 10 Horror Stories: Stephen Jones, editor of the new anthology A Book of Horrors, is the multiple-award-winning editor and author of more than one hundred books in the horror and fantasy genres. Here, he gives us his 10 favorite horror stories.

24 Classic Pop Songs That Peaked At Number Two

24 Classic Pop Songs That Peaked At Number Two

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

CHICAGO: Illinois prosecutor accused of biting store clerk in leg 

Top 10 Mysterious Monsters Of Today

Top 10 Mysterious Monsters Of Today

4 Crucial Rules of End Zone Celebration Etiquette

4 Crucial Rules of End Zone Celebration Etiquette

Forgotten Music: One-Hit Wonders

The other day I linked to a post about the best and worst one-hit wonders.  Quite a few songs weren't mentioned, mainly (I suspect) because they were so old.  Here are a few of them.  If you're as old as I am, you can probably think of a few dozen more.

The Monotones: Book of Love

Silhouettes: Get a Job

Jody Reynolds: Endless Sleep

Tony Bellus: Robbin' the Cradle

Joan Weber: Let Me Go, Lover

Thurston Harris: Little Bitty Pretty One

Herbert Lom, R. I. P.

BBC News - Herbert Lom, Pink Panther star, dies aged 95: Actor Herbert Lom, best known for playing Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 95.  

The Czech-born, London-based actor starred opposite Peter Sellers in several films as Inspector Clouseau's irritable boss. 

Lom appeared in more than 100 films during his 60-year acting career, including such classics as The Ladykillers, Spartacus and El Cid. His family said he died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday.

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

No Wonder She's Smiling

Mona Lisa: the early years? Art world split over Leonardo da Vinci 'work' 

An Affair to Remember

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

Altercation between two flight attendants sends United jet back to RDU

Free Today for Kindle

Doubleback (Georgia Davis Series)Doubleback (Georgia Davis Series): Libby Fischer Hellmann: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she's willing to overlook the odd circumstances. 

A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris's car. 

An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the IT manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly's father hires PI Georgia Davis to follow the money and investigate Chris's death. 

 Doubleback, the sequel to the acclaimed Easy Innocence, reunites PI Georgia Davis with video producer Ellie Foreman (An Eye For Murder, A Picture Of Guilt, An Image Of Death, A Shot To Die For). The two women track leads from Northern Wisconsin to an Arizona border town, where illegal immigrants, smuggled drugs, and an independent contractor called Delton Security come into play. Georgia and Ellie go to great lengths to find the truth, and Georgia discovers that you can cross a line, but sometimes you have to double back.

Not Only Do They Win in Court, . . .

. . . but they live longer.

SBS World News: Italy's highest court has ruled that telling a man he has 'no balls' as an insult is a crime punishable with a fine.

Gator Update

Gator Rips Off Elderly Woman’s Arm

He Was Mooned

British policeman baffled by bright light, discovers it is the moon

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair

Women Caught Smuggling Drugs In Hair Weaves 

Song of the Day

Andy Williams - Are You Sincere - YouTube:

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Uh-Oh

NBC Developing Modern 'Wuthering Heights' 

“Does It Ever Get Easier?”

“Does It Ever Get Easier?” (by Michael Z. Lewin) 

Andy Williams, R. I. P.

People.com: Andy Williams, whose corn-fed good looks, easygoing charm and smooth rendition of "Moon River" propelled him to the heights of music stardom in the early '60s, died Tuesday at his home in Branson, Mo., following a battle with bladder cancer, his family announced.

Colorizing -- Yes or No?

Amazing Photographs Brought Back To Life!

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Albert L. Quandt, Baby Sitter, Original Novels, 1952

The Museum Of Sex Gave Tim Tebow A Lifetime Membership

The Museum Of Sex Gave Tim Tebow A Lifetime Membership

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Houston - News: A prison guard fired for being Facebook friends with an inmate was reinstated after it was discovered that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's chief financial officer was Facebook friends with the same dude.

Cover Model Speaks Out (Article from 1949)

Pulp Flakes: Detective Pulp Magazine Covers from the other side: Girl on those Pulp Magazines hates the life she leads

5 Heartbreaking (or Miraculous) Moments in Sports Betting History

5 Heartbreaking (or Miraculous) Moments in Sports Betting History 

Three yeti 'sightings' in one week

Kemerovo region': Three yeti 'sightings' in one week in Siberia

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

No Shades of Grey - Black & White Book Covers

Moby Dick by Herman MelvilleAbeBooks: No matter what you call it - monochromatic, void of color, black & white - these covers are anything but stark. The use of black and white has been widely used in a variety of mediums and book covers in particular have seen a resurgence of this type of design aesthetic.

Secret Admirer

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Deputies: Wife shoots husband during fight in order to protect family's pet cat in Spring 

New Story at BEAT to a PULP

BEAT to a PULP :: Too Many Crocketts :: Evan Lewis

40 Reasons Why You Can Happy About The Bacon Shortage

40 Reasons Why You Can Happy About The Bacon Shortage

No Comment Department

Book Publisher Goes To Court To Recoup Hefty Advances From Prominent Writers 

20 Reasons We Shouldn't Be Surprised By The Global Bacon Shortage

20 Reasons We Shouldn't Be Surprised By The Global Bacon Shortage

Shamus Banquet

The PWA Shamus Banquet is always a highlight of the Bouchercon.  If you're going, you'd probably enjoy attending.

From Bob Randisi:  Tickets are still available for the PWA Shamus Banquet in Cleveland during Bouchercon. The event is Fri night, Oct. 5. Tickets are $60 for dinner, a cruise and awards. Email Bob Randisi at RRandisi@sbcglobal.net for tickets and details.

So I Said to Hemingway by Gary Brandner

So I Said to Hemingway by Gary Brandner | Prologue Books

Playboy Interview: Lee Child

Playboy Interview: Lee Child

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

Police officers brawl at Waffle House

Tereska Torres, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Tereska Torres, a convent-educated French writer who quite by accident wrote America’s first lesbian pulp novel, died on Thursday at her home in Paris. She was 92.

I Report, You Decide

Happy National One-Hit Wonder Day: Here's The Best and Worst 

The Best Life Advice from William Faulkner

The Best Life Advice from William Faulkner

Song of the Day

The Fabulous Thunderbirds-Tuff Enuff - YouTube:

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Today's Healthy Eating Tip

Deep Fried Nacho Cheese 

I Found a Penny the Other Day

Goodwill Painting Bought for $9.99 Auctioned for $27K 

I Miss the Old Days

Discotheque Dances, 1965 

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R. V. Cassill, Nurses' Quarters, Gold Medal, 1961

Writers' Favorite Punctuation Marks

Writers' Favorite Punctuation Marks

The 10 Best Stephen King Movies

The 10 Best Stephen King Movies

50 Favorite James Bond Quotes

50 Favorite James Bond Quotes

Question 10 Was my Favorite

Organic Food Brand or Cult? Online Quiz

5 Ridiculous Assassination Plots That Actually Worked

5 Ridiculous Assassination Plots That Actually Worked 

Overlooked Movies: High Road to China

High Road to China has a lot going for it.  Great cast: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Brian Blessed, Wilford Brimley, Jack Weston, Robert Morley.  Great period setting: 1920s Asia.  Great action in the air (biplanes!) and on the ground. 

Tom Selleck is a crochety WWI flying ace who's hired to help Armstrong locate her father in China before he's declared legally dead.  If that happens, she'll lose her inheritance.  Armstrong's a flapper with a mind of her own.  She's also a flyer, so she and Selleck take off in twin biplanes and get into all sorts of scrapes.  Want to bet they'll fall for each other?  

It all ought to work better than it does.  All the ingredients are there, but it never quite takes off.  The aerial sequences are great.  In fact all the action is.  Armstrong and Selleck look great and their repartee is dandy.  The story's fine.  The pacing is a little off, though.  It wants to be Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it's more Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  Worth a look, but not essential.

High Road to China

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Uh-Oh or OK?

‘Fargo’ Television Project Official with the Coens Attached

Arkansas Leads the Way

Education Nation: Rural Arkansas Town Rethinks High School

It's National Punctuation Day!

National Punctuation Day

Bullets and Lies -- Robert J. Randisi

Talbot Roper's a former Pinkerton agent now acting on his own as a private-eye.  Readers of J. R. Roberts' Gunsmith series may have met Roper already, as he's occasionally appeared as a secondary character.  In the first book of his own series, Roper's asked to locate five men who served in the army with Howard Westover.  Westover received the Medal of Honor, and it seems likely that it will be taken from him by the government.  Roper's job is to get affidavits from the men to attest to the fact that Westover deserves his medal.  

Things don't seem quite right from the very first.  Roper's certain his client (Westover's wife) isn't telling everything.  Besides that, Roper's drawn the interest of the Secret Service. And somebody's taken a shot at him. When he locates the first man on his list, he finds that he's been dead for years.  The second man is killed shortly before Roper arrives, and it's clear that somebody's after the others, as well.

So what you have is a solid mystery plot in a western setting.  Roper travels over a good bit of the country in visiting his client and in locating three of the men he's looking for.  He gets into a number of scrapes along the way, but he's a persistent guy.  He's not afraid to use his gun, though he'd prefer to use his brain.  Eventually he works things out, but not before Randisi has provided some good surprises.

Short chapters, good pacing, and a fine start to a new series.  Fans of the traditional western should get it immediately.

Bonus: Gotta love it that the cover blurb is from Jake Foster!

Telling the Story by Harry Shannon

Top Suspense Group: Telling the Story by Harry Shannon

Croc Update (Qantas Edition)

Crocodile escapes on Qantas flight

Uh-Oh

Hamlet-inspired TV Thriller On Way - TV - ShortList Magazine: US network Fox has picked up the rights to a new project, America's Son, which is loosely based on one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Hamlet

 The show will be to be a political thriller-meets-soap, set in Washington DC, and is written by Paul Redford (The West Wing/Dirty Sexy Money). Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV is set to produce.

Song of the Day

Book Of Love by The Monotones - YouTube:

I'll Have to Get Vince Keenan's Opinion on This

10 Great Novels and the Cocktails You Should Pair Them With

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Flash Fiction Challenge, Frank Jr.

Links to the stories for Flash Fiction Challenge, Frank Jr.

Aldo Calcagno Interview

Criminal Masterminds : Aldo Calcagno

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Fox News: Because of the lack of water, the town of  Brownwood may tap into their wastewater by installing a system that cycles toilet water through a series of treatment plants and right back into the municipal water supply, MyFoxAustin reports.

I taught in Brownwood for 12 years.  While I was there, I met a hydrologist who told me this:  "There's good news and bad news about water.  The good news is that in the future we're all going to be drinking recycled waste water.  The bad new is that there's not going to be enough of it."  Looks as if he might have been right.

10 Of The Cutest Endangered Species

10 Of The Cutest Endangered Species

Yet Another List I'm Not On

The 17 Hottest Silver Foxes

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R. V. Cassill, The Wife Next Door, Gold Medal, 1959

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .

Man assaulted while having sex

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Has the Persecution Ended?

Paris Hilton puts gay slur controversy behind her as she shows off her svelte figure in a neon pink bikini in Hawaii 

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Zadie Smith's 10 Rules of Writing

Zadie Smith's 10 Rules of Writing 

I Miss the Old Days

The Best Cell Phone Commercial From 1989

50 Best High School Movies

50 Best High School Movies 

The 25 Best Pictures From The 2012 World Beard And Mustache Championship

The 25 Best Pictures From The 2012 World Beard And Mustache Championship

Caboblanco

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Paul Bishop Interview

ALL PULP: PAUL BISHOP AND THE SWEET SCIENCE OF PULP

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest

The Guns of VedauwooThe Guns of Vedauwoo: Wayne D. Dundee: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: U.S. Marshal Cash Laramie is sent out to locate a shipment of stolen guns in the Vedauwoo area of Wyoming where the rocky terrain is treacherous and enshrouded in mystical beauty. In his quest, Cash goes up against an amoral opportunist looking to stir up discord in the region by selling the weapons to a group of Native Americans. 

THE GUNS OF VEDAUWOO is the second Cash Laramie novel by Wayne D. Dundee, following on the heels of his bestselling MANHUNTER’S MOUNTAIN.

Song of the Day

Paul Evans - "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat" - YouTube:

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Wally Update

Beav's brother Tony Dow now an abstract artist

Hat tip to Art Scott.

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R. V. Cassill, The Buccaneer, Avon, 1958

The Early History of 5 Spy Agencies

The Early History of 5 Spy Agencies 

10 Famous Authors Who Dropped Out of School

10 Famous Authors Who Dropped Out of School

4 Buildings That Defy the Laws of Gravity

4 Buildings That Defy the Laws of Gravity 

Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Making of ‘Jaws’

Rare, Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Making of ‘Jaws’

Mammoth skeleton up for auction in Paris

Mammoth skeleton up for auction in Paris 

Math: It's Everywhere

10 Amazing Examples of Architecture Inspired by Mathematics

Mermaid

Mermaid (official trailer) Cher - YouTube: