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A Trip to Newport, Scene of the Crimes in TIP OF A BONE
Yesterday, you met my Dream Cast for Tip of a Bone - The Movie (HERE). Today I present the setting. Welcome to the peaceful, touristy town of Newport, population 10,000 and change (but that‘s about to...
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FLASH FICTION: Skyler Hobbs and the Troublesome Taste
This one is in response to Patti Abbott's challenge: a story based on the headline "Michigan Man's Tastes Gets Him into Trouble." "You lied to me," Skyler Hobbs said. While saying it, he dipped a...
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Forgotten Books: Bone, Bones and More Bones
Call me a laggard and a bumpkin, but I’ve never read a Patricia Highsmith book. Or a short story, either. But, this being Highsmith Day on FFB, and BONE Week on the Almanack, I felt obliged to pay a...
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Forgotten Books: CONAN plays Sam Spade (and The Continental Op)
When James Reasoner reviewed John C. Hocking's Conan and the Emerald Lotus some time back (that's HERE), Charles R. Rutledge commented, "Robert E. Howard's Conan was to most fantasy what Dashiell...
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Forgotten Books: HASHKNIFE OF THE DOUBLE BAR 8 by W.C. Tuttle
Jimmy Legg, a San Francisco bookkeeper, suddenly gets fed up with his job and gets the itch to become a cowpuncher. He pulls out an atlas, and some instinct draws him to the town of Blue Wells,...
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Happy Belated Halloween
My wife and I were on vacation in Arizona last week, and stopped at a Tuscon hospital to visit a friend (you know who you are). Walking past the cafeteria, this display of pumpkins happened to catch my...
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Comic Gallery: The Birth of S.H.I.E.L.D. Part 2 (1965-66)
See the first three S.H.I.E.L.D. covers HERE.
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Overlooked TV: Clint Walker on The Jack Benny Show (1963)
A couple of weeks back I posted a clip of Clint Walker singing "Along the Navajo Trail" from an appearance on the Jack Benny Program. Later, I came across the whole half-hour show, and most of it's a...
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Comic Gallery: PLANET COMICS (1940)
Charles SultanWill Eisner & Lou FineWill EisnerSee earlier PLANET covers HERE.
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Forgotten Books: BLUE CITY by Kenneth Millar (Ross MacDonald)
I read all the Lew Archer books a coon’s age ago, so I’ve probably forgotten how good they are. What I do remember is that somewhere in the middle Macdonald fell into a Sins of the Fathers formula and...
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