Saturday, September 08, 2012
PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest
BEAT to a PULP: Superhero: Keith Rawson,Thomas Pluck,Chad Eagleton,Steve Weddle,James Reasoner,Garnett Elliott,Kevin Burton Smith,Jake Hinkson,Scott D. Parker,David Cranmer: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: What makes a superhero? Someone with special powers ... Ordinary people doing good deeds ... Anyone with sophisticated technological gadgets and incredible agility? Superheroes can spring up from the most unexpected people in the most unusual places, and BEAT to a PULP: Superhero has gathered some of the best hardboiled and noir crime stories with a superhero bend. Billy Mitchell, the six-year-old "Red Avenger" in Kevin Burton Smith's tale, has an innocence and a special something that draws us to want to don a mask and tie a towel around our necks.
Bummer, Indeed
The Consumerist: In yet another example of why it's kind of crappy to be a grownup, the rule of "finders, keepers" doesn't work beyond the playground's boundaries. A federal judge ruled recently that 10 rare gold coins valued at about $80 million that had disappeared from the Philadelphia Mint decades ago belong to the U.S. government, and not a family that found them in a safety deposit box. Bummer.
First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .
Golfer shot in Reno after golf ball breaks window of nearby residence | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com: A man is custody, suspected of grazing a Reno golfer with a shotgun pellet fired after the golfer had accidentally hit a golf ball through a window of a residence on Wycliff Road on Thursday afternoon, Reno police confirmed.
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