As part of my continuing time-wasting writing project, a massive 1950's noir epic set in New York, I have been collecting & photoshopping images of my fictional detective's real world. They fire my imagination, and they're fun, too. I take chapters of the masterwork to a writing group I belong to, and the other amateurs there enjoy it when I add ( Read more... )

The Scots have beshat themselves. This is the blackest day in that country's history since the Darien disaster. If this is what the Scots do with their newly found shadow of semi-independence, then I say it's time for another Culloden.

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The newest Batwoman issue of Detective Comics (855) is out, and once again I actually BOUGHT a NEW comic book.

Herewith are reactions, with a few very, very mild spoilers:
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"Well, the end of the show was to be: the adjutant would stand the battalion at ease: the band would play 'Land of Hope and Glory,' and then the adjutant would say:'There will be no more parades.'" --Ford Madox Ford, "No More Parades ( Read more... )

This meme comes courtesy of Bobbarker ( Read more... )

The critic and filmaker Peter Bogdanovich became a close friend of Orson Welles late in Welles' life. One evening they were watching 'The Magnificent Ambersons' when Bogdanovich saw that Welles was quietly weeping. "Why are you crying?" Bogdanovich asked Welles. "Is it because the studio ruined 'Ambersons' [which they had]'?" "Oh no," Welles said ( Read more... )

"And there were giants in the Earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of Renown."--Genesis 4:1


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Just this and that.

1. A GREAT NOVEL AND A BAD ONE
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