This video is hilarious, at least if you're from the South, and Texas is definitely part of the South. By the way, I'm not embedding it because it's Not Safe for Work.
Link via Neatorama.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Radio Interview
A while back, James Reasoner, Mel Odom, and I did a radio interview with Elaine Raco Chase. We had a lot of fun with it, and our old pal Paul Bishop even called in. If you missed it the first time, or if you just want to hear it again (as who wouldn't?), it's being replayed tonight at 8:00 P. M. Eastern, 7:00 P. M. Central, on Triangle Variety Radio. Check it out.
Get Our Your Checkbooks
AFP: A luxury Irish hotel made famous in the classic John Wayne movie "The Quiet Man" went on sale on Wednesday for half the price paid for it five years ago.
Archaeology Update
Egyptian princess tomb discovered near Cairo: Egypt’s antiquities minister announced on Friday the discovery of a princess’s tomb dating from the fifth dynasty (around 2500 BC) in the Abu Sir region south of Cairo.
Friday, November 02, 2012
This is the Most Amazing Story I've Read in a Long Time
DVICE: What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware.
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A Soundtrack EP
You can listen or download here: Passion Slaying of the Secret Mistress | Modern Silent Cinema
The Companion Book Club: Literature from the Swinging Sixties
Literature from the Swinging Sixties: Book club editions often receive short shrift from booksellers and collectors. Written off as mass market reprints, they are very low on the literary pecking order. But consider the Companion Book Club for a moment… if only for the feast of beautiful cover art that is displayed on this page.
Forgotten Books: Angel -- Gil Brewer
Just by looking at the cover and the author's name, you've probably already figured out that Angel is anything but. She's the wife of Nick Gavin's best friend, Fred, and Fred has just been shot to death. The cops find Nick in the front yard with the murder weapon in his hand. He's not arrested, so he starts to try to figure out what's going on. He's only in town because Fred wrote him and asked him to come, and he knows something's up.
The night after Fred's death, Nick visits Angel, who's definitely not grieving. Before long, well, you know what happens. You'll also figure out what's going on long before Nick does because he clearly hasn't read enough Gil Brewer books. It doesn't really matter that you're ahead of him, however. The book is a blazing fast read, and Brewer manages to throw in several little twists before the end. It's worth having for the cover alone, though not at the prices I've seen on the 'Net. Check it out if you already have a copy in your library.
Thursday, November 01, 2012
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Uh-Oh
Fox Buys Greek God Drama From Peter Berg, Taylor Sheridan: The project, from Universal TV and Berg and Sarah Aubrey’s studio-based Film 44, is described as “Bourne by way of 300.”
It's Time to Vote for Your Favorites
Locus Online: 2012 All-Centuries Poll Ballot: Locus Online is hosting, during the month of November 2012, a poll for the best novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries, the first such poll Locus has conducted since those hosted by the Magazine in 1975, 1987, and 1998 (with an online supplemental poll in 1999). The scope for this poll is the 20th century, 1901 to 2000, and the first decade of the 21st century, 2001 to 2010.
First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .
CNSNews.com: An Air Force Academy tradition of throwing cadet first sergeants into the season's first snowfall ended in a brawl that left 27 cadets in need of medical treatment for everything from concussions, bitemarks, and cuts, according to an internal academy email obtained by the Air Force Times.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Free for Kindle for a Limited Time
Witch Got Your Tongue (A Tongue-Tied Witch Novel): Livia J. Washburn: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: Aren McAllister is a beautiful but shy and withdrawn young woman who has battled a stuttering problem her entire life. But then, seemingly by accident, she discovers that she wields an incredible power: she is actually a witch and can cast potent spells . . . but only by singing them. This discovery throws Aren into a dangerous power struggle between different factions in the society of witches who live among humans unknown by them. And for the first time she encounters a romance that may change her life as much or more than the powers she never knew she had.
WITCH GOT YOUR TONGUE is the first novel in the Tongue Tied Witch series, a brand-new urban fantasy thrill ride from award-winning, best-selling novelist Livia J. Washburn, author of the best selling Fresh Baked Mystery series and the Literary Tour Mysteries. Trade Paperback: 152 pages, 45,000 words.
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The Magical Illustration of Arthur Rackham
AbeBooks: The Magical Illustration of Arthur Rackham: Arthur Rackham was an illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in London in 1867. He began studying at the Lambeth School of Art at the age of 18, and soon found his passion and calling. The first of Rackham's illustrations to be published in a book were in 1893, in The Dolly Dialogues. Rackham never looked back. From that first publication, illustration was his career until the day he died at age 72, of cancer.
First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .
chicagotribune.com: Lisle man accused of death, rape threats over volleyball game substitution
Happy Halloween!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Looking for Something a Little Different?
Gabby Darbins and the Slide-Rock Bolter (Rancho Diablo): Colby Jackson,Mel Odom,Bill Crider,James Reasoner: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: Gabby Darbins heads for Pike's Peak country to find gold. He finds more than he bargained for, including gunfights, conniving women, and the terrifying slide-rock bolter!
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New England's vampire panic
New England's vampire panic: In 19th-century Rhode Island, says Abigail Tucker, farmers began digging up graves in search of vampires
The Rare Books of HG Wells
The Visible Man: The Rare Books of HG Wells: It’s hard to know where to begin with H.G. Wells (1866-1946). His remarkable career included writing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, Kipps, The History of Mr Polly, and at least another 45 novels. He also penned more than 60 non-fiction books during a prolific career in literature.
Once Again Texas Leads the Way
Mail Online: A North Texas congregation is reeling after an attacker rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor, and beat him to death with an electric guitar.
Overlooked Movies: Flesh and Bone
Quaid is Arlis, a guy who stocks vending machines. But he has a past, one that he shares with his father, played by James Caan, a man who's never known what a conscience was. It's not much of a spoiler to tell you that Ryan, a woman Arlis gives a ride to and then becomes attached to, shares in that past. It's a bloody and violent past, for sure. And then there's Gwyneth Paltrow in one of her first big roles as Caan's considerably younger female companion. She's getting lessons in larceny and seems to take to them well.
You know going in that this one can't possibly end well for everybody, or maybe for anybody. There will be blood. I found it suspenseful and well acted by all concerned. Maybe not a classic, but certainly not a dud. Check it out.
Monday, October 29, 2012
NYC is under water
Many scary photos and some video. And it's only going to get worse. This is a massive mess. NYC is under water
Once Again Texas Leads the Way
I've been to #1 several times. I've even been a speaker there twice.
The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States
The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States
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Hmmmmmmmm
Young blood can reverse some effects of ageing, study finds: It is rumoured that the late Kim Jong-il would inject himself with blood from healthy young virgins in a bid to slow the ageing process. Remarkably, the North Korean dictator might have been onto something. Experiments on mice have shown that it is possible to rejuvenate the brains of old animals by injecting them with blood from the young.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Easter Island Update
guardian.co.uk: Easter Island statues 'walked' into position, say experts
Experiment reveals how giant stone statues may have been put into resting places without wheels or animals
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