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Just an FYI (that spins into a post about James Bond)
If you pop in here and things look a little strange, you should know that I use this site to test and modify Wordpress templates for others.
Actually, this was the real reason I restarted the blog. In the long run, I can see this place getting a little busier with a few more posts, and […]
How to be “something else entirely”
It’s not a common occurrence that a gorgeous hunk ties you up, robs the house you’re staying in, and kisses you breathless. Unless you’re Maggie Quinton, that is: savvy, sexy architect working on a remote island off the Florida panhandle. In Maggie’s case, the buff burglar keeps coming back in search of an item he […]
Truth, horror and style
In anticipation of the DVD release of The Black Dahlia on Boxing Day, I would like to register here my reason for not going to the theatre to see that movie. It is because of this book, Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel, which I bought just prior to the movie’s theatrical release. (Like many, […]
For ‘progressives’
A review in the October New Criterion "Into the whirlwind" by Daniel Mahoney (reg. required) of From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States edited by Paul Hollander. Here’s a review excerpt:
Rooted in what Hollander suggestively calls the “violence of higher purpose,” the misdeeds of Communism […]
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A week or so ago, my colleague Kevin Michael Grace called me up and asked if I had a copy of Nabokov’s Lolita, annotated by Alfred Appel. He needed me to look up something. Kevin informed me at one time he had owned the annotated novel, but was forced to sell it along with his […]
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