Light House Cleaning
This is the part of the show where I unload various and sundry links that have been gathering dust in my folder lo! these many weeks. Enjoy.
The first thing is I do not like mystery novels, I like private eye novels. Big difference. The second thing is that three of the big names currently working in the private eye (or crime fiction) genre are Connelly, Pelecanos annd Lehane. The third thing? These three men were inspired by a man named James Crumley. I just finished reading his second-to-latest novel The Final Country and I was quite chuffed to learn that his lates, The Right Madness was recently published.
The funniest Christmas ever. Seriously. Followed by Dogblog, which is self-explanatory.
A collection of paperback novel covers. Old school paperback novel covers. When I was just a sprout, these kinds of paperbacks were easily found at yardsales and secondhand book stores. You can still find them today, but not quite as readily as years ago. A shame for kids of today. One of the chief pleasures of my childhood was a trip to the used bookstore, where two or three dollars might (and usually did) yield up reading treasure like these beauties.
Liveplasma. Go play with this and report back. I can't explain it, but it's a pretty cool toy for music and movie geeks.
I like vintage posters, not least because they bring to mind an era when travel was glamorous and full of adventure, not a cattle call. I also suspect I like the look and feel of these posters for the same reasons I dig fedoras: they're much more cool and stylish than anything going on today.
The first thing is I do not like mystery novels, I like private eye novels. Big difference. The second thing is that three of the big names currently working in the private eye (or crime fiction) genre are Connelly, Pelecanos annd Lehane. The third thing? These three men were inspired by a man named James Crumley. I just finished reading his second-to-latest novel The Final Country and I was quite chuffed to learn that his lates, The Right Madness was recently published.
The funniest Christmas ever. Seriously. Followed by Dogblog, which is self-explanatory.
A collection of paperback novel covers. Old school paperback novel covers. When I was just a sprout, these kinds of paperbacks were easily found at yardsales and secondhand book stores. You can still find them today, but not quite as readily as years ago. A shame for kids of today. One of the chief pleasures of my childhood was a trip to the used bookstore, where two or three dollars might (and usually did) yield up reading treasure like these beauties.
Liveplasma. Go play with this and report back. I can't explain it, but it's a pretty cool toy for music and movie geeks.
I like vintage posters, not least because they bring to mind an era when travel was glamorous and full of adventure, not a cattle call. I also suspect I like the look and feel of these posters for the same reasons I dig fedoras: they're much more cool and stylish than anything going on today.
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