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At 12:30pm on August 12, 2007, Eric Stone said…: Lucky genes is all. First ballgame I ever went to was in 1958. I was five. For reasons that I've never quite understood, my favorite American League team (although, since the designated hitter came into being I can never be a true American League fan) has always been the Orioles.
Couldn't find "Blondes Blondes Blondes" - but that's not so unusual for me. I'll have to hunt harder when I've got more time later.

At 11:40am on August 12, 2007, Karen J. Laubenstein said…: Hi Jack - Yeah, my family's in Maine, so have done the trip many times now from East Coast to Alaska - glad you liked the slide show. Will upload some from today's trip to Denali. A photographer from Myrtle Beach said he was glad to be here and not home with that East Coast summer heat wave. You'll have Bcon in your neighborhood next year! I worked in Baltimore once and hope to get there for next year's B'con. I'll read your stuff before I go on one of those longgg flights from Alaska.

At 11:35am on August 12, 2007, Gemma Halliday said…: Hi Jack,
I love the old Hollywood era! I'll have to pick up one of your books. Which one should I start with?

~Gemma

At 11:15am on August 12, 2007, Steven Torres said…: The hardboiled cozy (in my practice) is a story with violence but which takes place in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. What I sometimes tell people is that the stories are like Mayberry but with more blood and the criminals don't lock themselves up at night.

At 11:07am on August 12, 2007, Silvia Foti said…: So true, but you'd be surprised who The Diva's Fool is in this mystery :-)

Silvia

At 5:34am on August 7, 2007, Louisa Christy said…: Congos have bright red tail feathers. Timnehs have more of a wine red coloring. There is another subspcies, the Ghana. All in all, I find them great companions and funny.

At 12:07am on August 7, 2007, Felicia Donovan said…: Thanks for the comment, Jack. Looking forward to an interesting Fall...

At 11:28pm on August 6, 2007, JackBludis said…: I just looked it up ... Didn't know the subspecies of my African Gray, but he or she had a red tail. So it must have been a Congo. (I never spent the money to learn the gender of the bird.) Until today never knew there was a subspecies. It talked as a perfect mimic--in people's voices, whoever it learned from.

At 12:29pm on August 6, 2007, Louisa Christy said…: Do you have Congo or a Timneh?

At 12:25pm on August 6, 2007, Louisa Christy said…: Hi Jack.
Thanks for the welcome.

At 7:19am on August 6, 2007, Patrick Lee said…: Thanks for the invite! Those are some great writers on your list, too And The Elements of Style should be within arm's reach of every writer's desk.

At 9:16am on August 4, 2007, Simon Wood said…: Thanks, although the nomination has spooked me a bit.

At 7:23pm on August 3, 2007, Cormac Brown said…: Hello Jack and thank you much for the invite.

At 3:24pm on August 2, 2007, Simon Wood said…: I'm prepared to be scared a bit--and thanks.

At 4:45am on August 2, 2007, Simon Wood said…: Jack,

You've convinced me to read The Road. I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about it...

At 1:57am on August 1, 2007, Dennis Venter said…: Although, authors like Crais, Child, Sandford, etc are more mainstream than haerdboiled. And with the emergence of folk like Swiercynski, Guthrie, Starr, Bruen and so forth, I'd argue hardboiled/noir is doing fairly well.

As for cozies - I guess we all have different taste. Explains how reality TV is so big and how Dubya go the keys to the kingdom, no?

At 11:04am on July 31, 2007, Geoffrey Proud said…: I'm with you on the present tense. It has spread like a virus in the TV doc biz, but so far I've been able to resist. Or, rather, "So far I am resisting."

At 10:53am on July 31, 2007, Jackie Houchin said…: Thanks, Jack. You have a wry way of writing! I checked out your website and like the New Guy on the Block story. Keep 'em comin'. And... you don't look a day over 17!

At 10:49am on July 31, 2007, Geoffrey Proud said…: Hello, Jack. Thanks for the invite. I thought I was reading my book list when I read yours. I know it's no longer cool, but I'm still a fan of the first person.

At 10:48am on July 28, 2007, Kelli Stanley said…: Yup, Jack, glad to hear you subscribe to Shakespeare was Shakespeare. So do I. He wasn't Bacon, de Vere, or (as much as I revere the woman) Elizabeth I. He was a middle-class genius whose father was a glover.

I haven't seen the latest Lehane, but I'll cruise around and look for it. Thanks for the tip! ;)

BTW, saw a great silent film a few weeks ago at the Silent Film Festival in SF--a "proto-noir" called A Cottage on Dartmoor. Splendid stuff. If you ever find it on TCM or anywhere else, grab it.

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