Angela and Tom Neary await the big opening.
Kasey Lansdale warms up the crowd with a couple of songs.
Joe Lansdale talks to a fan.
Santa Zombie turns up in the audience.
Joe Lansdale answers questions after the movie.
Chet Williamson and screenwriter Keith Lansdale laugh it up after the screening.
Bill ‘Moose’ Skowron, hero of the Yankees’ 1958 World Series team, dead at 81 from congestive heart failure - NY Daily News: Bill (Moose) Skowron, the hulking and popular Yankee first baseman of the 1950s and ’60s and the hero of their come-from-behind 1958 World Series triumph over the Milwaukee Braves, died of congestive heart failure early Friday morning at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill. Skowron had also battled lung cancer for several years. He was 81.
A tip of the old baseball cap to Jeff Meyerson.
Amazon.com: Everything But The Squeal (Simeon Grist Mystery) eBook: Timothy Hallinan: Kindle Store: Robert B. Parker and Robert Crais fans will enjoy 2011 "Best Novel" nominee Hallinan's overeducated private eye, Simeon Grist. In the second book in Hallinan's cult series, originally published in the 1990s, Grist takes a case, that leads him to the phantom neighborhoods of L.A.'s lost children.
Missing thirteen-year-old Aimee Sorrell, who ran all the way from Kansas to be a star. But Aimee's trail soon leads Simeon to the city morgue, the first stop on a perilous journey to find out what happens to America's lost children when they go looking for love in all the wrong places.
Koinlocal6.com: "Police say 61-year-old Robert Ristick walked into the Albertsons off East Fourth Plain wearing nothing but shoes and socks. Witnesses say he managed to walk behind the customer service desk, where he took cigarettes, before police arrived."
KOMO News: Later that afternoon, the burglar called the victims, asking to trade the items he had taken from the home for items he left behind as long as they didn't call police.
Where are America’s Most Peaceful Places?: As usual, New England is home to the most peaceful states. For the 11th consecutive year, Maine led the way with its low rates of incarceration, crime and police presence that translate into relatively reasonable costs to taxpayers, only $1,281 per year.
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