Saturday, September 17, 2016

Stephen Blumberg and His Stolen Books

Stephen Blumberg and His Stolen Books  

Hat tip to Howard Peters.

Song of the Day

Sister Sledge - We Are Family - YouTube:

I'm Sure You'll All Agree

The 10 Strangest Places on Earth

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The Weird Week in Review

The Weird Week in Review 

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Harry Widmer, editor, The Hardboiled Lineup, Lion, 1956

20 superheroines who were saving the world before Wonder Woman

20 superheroines who were saving the world before Wonder Woman

Barry Award Winners 2016

Mystery Fanfare: Barry Award Winners 2016

I Want to Believe!

Is this Nessie? Amateur photographer captured picture of 'three humped Loch Ness Monster'

Shamus Award Winners

Mystery Fanfare: Shamus Award Winners

Novelist W.P. Kinsella, R. I. P.

Novelist W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Shoeless Joe,' dies at 81: Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 81.

First It Was the Thin Mints Melee. . . .

. . . and now it's the Crucifix Attack!

Friday, September 16, 2016

Edward Albee, R. I. P.

The New York Times: Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between self-delusion and truth and the roiling desperation beneath the facade of contemporary life, died Friday at his home in Montauk, N.Y. He was 88.

Uh-Oh

'High Noon' Remake in the Works: Based on the 1952 Oscar winner, the new version will be set in the present day along the cartel-controlled U.S.-Mexico border.  

Hat tip to Fred Zackel.

Song of the Day

Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away lyrics - YouTube:

I'm Sure You'll All Agree

19 Times Someone Gets Thrown Into the Vacuum of Space, From Worst to Best

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Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Bantam, 1949

Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties

The sexiest knees in America: 1914-1925 Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties

I Miss the Old Days

16 Pictures That Show How Stylish Jumpsuits Were In The '70s