Yahoo! News: Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said.
Hat tip to Art Scott.
Saturday, February 02, 2013
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Created, The Destroyer (The Destroyer #1): Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: When you're on death row, minutes from the electric chair, and a hook-handed monk offers to save your life if you'll just swallow a simple little pill... what've you got to lose? You take the pill. Then you wake up, officially "dead," in the back of an ambulance, headed for an undisclosed location. Welcome to your new life, working for CURE, the most secret, most deniable, most extra-judicial government agency ever to exist. Only the President knows about it, and even he doesn't control it. That's what happened to Remo Williams, a New Jersey cop framed for a murder he didn't commit. Framed by the very people who saved him, in fact. And now, trained in esoteric martial arts by Chiun, master of Sinanju, he's going to become the ultimate killing machine. Remo will be America's last line of defense against mad scientists, organized crime, ancient undead gods, and anything else that threatens the Constitution. Remo Williams is the Destroyer.
Peru Update
I think Judy and I had a pisco sour at every meal when we were in Peru.
The Raw Story: Peruvians on Saturday downed their national cocktail, the pisco sour, with a nationwide celebration of sipping and dancing — even opening a museum in its honor.
The cocktail, made from a grape-based liquor called pisco, has been made in Peru since the 16th century. Added to it are a squirt or two of fresh lemon juice, sugar, egg white and crushed ice.
The Raw Story: Peruvians on Saturday downed their national cocktail, the pisco sour, with a nationwide celebration of sipping and dancing — even opening a museum in its honor.
The cocktail, made from a grape-based liquor called pisco, has been made in Peru since the 16th century. Added to it are a squirt or two of fresh lemon juice, sugar, egg white and crushed ice.
PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest
Titan Books is doing some great reprints. Back in the '60s when I was reading spy novels by the truckload, I read many by Helen MacInnes in paperback. They've been out of print for years, but Titan is bringing them back. Check 'em out.
Amazon.com: Above Suspicion (9781781161531): Helen Macinnes: Books: Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures.
Above Suspicion was MacInnes’ breakthrough book, a bestseller published in 1941 and released as a movie in 1943, directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray.
“Hide and seek with death - in the shadow of terror... The hallmarks of a MacInnes novel of suspense are as individual and as clearly stamped as a Hitchcock thriller.” -The New York Times
I Found a Penny the Other Day
Man Finds Whale Vomit That Could Be Worth £100,000: If you happen to see a large yellow-ish rock on the beach, don’t just walk on by. Grab it and cash in. It could just be a very rare chunk of sperm whale vomit, a substance used to make perfume.
First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .
NY Daily News: A security guard at Atlanta's Metro Mall videotaped himself Tasing the woman, who along with another woman and children were taunting him. The unidentified woman who got Tased got physical with Long just before the zap.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
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