Saturday, February 21, 2015

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in which I Call Attention to Books of Interest

Wolf Creek: Massacre! - Kindle edition by Ford Fargo, Jerry Guin, Jackson Lowry, Bill Crider, Charles Steel, Troy D. Smith. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.: Welcome to Wolf Creek. 

Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. 

Fort Braxton has a temporary new commander, vainglorious Major Joab Putnam, whose determination to win personal glory will endanger the fragile peace the army has made with the Kiowas… and put the people of Wolf Creek in harm’s way.

First It was the Thin Mints Melee

Sun Sentinel: Police K9 attacks cop, doughnut shop worker

First It was the Thin Mints Melee

Penis picture provoked assault: Drunken Donna Hamer didn’t see anything funny about it, started calling Rick Scherzo “gay” and battered him with a wooden kitchen roll holder. She had sunk her teeth into his hands and threatened him with his own 12-inch chef’s knife, even though he had told her the picture was just a joke.

12 of the most egregious Oscar mistakes of all time

Purple Clover: Winning an Academy Award doesn't necessarily mean that a film or actor was the best – as seen here in 12 of the most egregious Oscar mistakes of all time  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

The Last of the Typewriter Men

The Last of the Typewriter Men 

Song of the Day

Bay city rollers-Saturday night - YouTube:

Oscar’s Weirdest Best Picture Nominees

Oscar’s Weirdest Best Picture Nominees 

Wayne Dundee Interview

Big Wayne Dundee Hits Amazon Pay Dirt With Westerns -

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The Weird Week in Review

The Weird Week in Review 

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Arthur MacArthur, Aphrodite's Lover, Universal Giant, 1953

Soon to Be the Subject of a Joe Lansdale Novel

The Fearless Black Cowboy of the Wild, Wild West  

Link via mental_floss.

12 Celebrity #TBT Photos You May Have Missed This Week

12 Celebrity #TBT Photos You May Have Missed This Week

The Omnibus Volumes of Jack Vance

The Omnibus Volumes of Jack Vance, Part I: Planet of Adventure

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Teen takes selfie video in stolen car

Friday, February 20, 2015

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest

Product DetailsBeating the Bushes - Kindle edition by Christine Matthews. Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.: Two fathers. One missing boy. A friendship that binds the two men, even beyond death. 

When fifteen year old Stevie Kracher goes missing, volunteers descend on a small Missouri town to join the search. One of those volunteers is Vincent Lloyd, whose six-year-old little girl had disappeared three years earlier. When her body was finally found, Vince became the prime suspect. Now he sees this new abduction as a chance to redeem himself, and to help save a child. 

Baylor Kracher is frantic to find his son. Nothing this devastating has ever happened to him; when he meets Vince he's found the only person he believes might understands his terror. Working with an Internet search group, fighting an aggressive reporter who's convinced that Vince killed his daughter, neither man will give an inch. But are they too late? And if they succeed, are they prepared for what they might find?

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee

Woman arrested for maiming after man claims girlfriend tried to bite his penis off 

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee

Hartford Courant: A 47-year old Stamford man flew into a rage and began yelling and throwing things around a local salon because he did not like his haircut, according to police. 

Read the lost Sherlock Holmes story found in an attic

Read the lost Sherlock Holmes story found in an attic: Revealed for the first time, here is the short Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an effort to save his favourite bridge in Selkirk

The Anniversary Day Saga -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a remarkable writer and an amazingly prolific one.  She's written crime novels, science fiction novels, fantasy novels, and romance novels (and these are just the ones I know about) under her own and other names.  She's written dozens of short stories.  She's won awards in just about all those fields I mentioned.  What she's doing now, however, is unprecedented, as far as I know.  I reviewed one of the Retrieval Artist novels in her Anniversary Day saga a couple of years ago.  Then the books stopped.  There was apparently a good reason for that.  She's decided to release the next six books in the series on a monthly schedule, beginning with A Murder of Clones last month.  Has anyone ever tried something like this before?  Instead of waiting a year or so for the next book in a series to appear as I did after Blowback, you have to wait only a month.  You can see the books and the schedule here if you're interested.  Every book I've read in the series has been a good one.  They're SF but with a strong mystery element, so you might want to give these a try if you haven't already.  They're best read in order, and maybe you'll be hooked.