If you go to Alabama Jacks expecting normal restaurant-level service, then your expectations couldn't be more out of tune with what Alabama Jacks is all about. The service is quick, the beer is cold and the food is incredible. Conch salad, conch fritters and a Red Stripe in the sun, staring at the mangroves and listening to live music are what this place is all about. It smells like the Keys, it looks like the Keys, and you can't put a price on this kind of atmosphere. I don't need a busboy with a crumber or a sommelier standing in the corner with a white towel over his arm to enjoy the food and libations. Just take my order, throw the paper bowl of fritters in front of me and make sure my beer doesn't dry up. Everything else would just be stuff I don't need when I dine al fresco in the Keys.

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And then there is me

Thanks Jack. Happy holiday.

Yes, you are correct, sir. I spent a lot of time in law enforcement.

Chuck, fellow hack

Cynde--
Thanks for the card and comment.
Because of Space I'm going to remove it though.
God bless you too.
Jack

Thanks for the add, Have a good week, year what ever is left.

FYI, when you read Moses Gunn, he's the legacy of Carroll John Daly's Race Williams. I created a modern version in Moses.

Christa is a doll. She promised that someday soone we could both 'get in a little trouble.'

I can't wait.

When I met Eddie, I was at a book expo, and speaking with another author, Christa Faust (I wanted to option her book MONEY SHOT). I heard a familiar voice nearby. Christa said, 'oh, and Eddie Muller is here, too.' I turned around, and there he was. I shook his hand and said, 'it's a pleasure to meet you. I've heard your voice in my home for years now, and it's nice to meet the man behind it.' Of course I had seen many films with his commentaries. He said it was the most original compliment he's ever received. We, along with Max Allan Collins, chatted for the next few hours, and had a great time. Eddie and I have kept in touch since then, and to this day I am honored to know him ...

Hi Jack,

I saw it and I liked it. I think the little Aboriginal boy was brilliant. I was moved in the end and it was indeed an epic. As for whether it borrowed from other epics, aren't they all the same anyhow? A great love story, a hardship, happy ending. Some people have lost the ability to simply enjoy a film.

Ah, a man after my own heart. AMC and TCM were my favorite channels, now its old time radio & republic serials.

If you want a copy of Blazing #9, le me know. You may like the stories.

Regards.

Hey Jack,

What did you want an Australian opinion of?

The predictablity of the genre really bores me, so I really appreciate the suggestion. I feel as though I have to weed through so many duds to find a gem.

Hi, thanks for the friend's request. Cormac McCarthy's writing is amazing. I'm totally smitten with his style.

What an interesting bio...and points of view on writing:) All good:) Hack away!...Wear the title like a hat...make it your own style:) (Which I have no doubt you have long established, as well as your own voice...

Thank you Jack:) I haven't really done anything to it recently...we just moved into a house and right on the heels of that the hurricane Ike descended on us...God what a couple of months!:)

Thank you! It's a bit intimidating to be in such great company, but I hope to live up to the contest's reputation...

Hi there,
Mark Salzman...he's the author of Iron & Silk (one of the first post-Mao travel-to-China memoirs), The Soloist, and other interesting novels.

Barbara DaCosta

Don't worry about it, doll. I never shoot fellow writers ...

I see you like Chandler, too. I also love Ross MacDonald's LA tales. And of course, there's James Ellroy. My PI Carrie Love has read them all, and is known to quote them during the course of working a case ...