Reality Bites – Ruth's Turn

by | Apr 25, 2005 | Features, Ruth Thoughts

Jon and I spend most of our free time within a fictional world of murder. The dead body in the story might be many things. A fully developed character sometimes. Sometimes just a means to a clever conclusion. But murder mysteries always have a resolution. Mostly good,...

Bouchercon

by | Apr 18, 2005 | Books, Events

Bouchercon is held in a different city every year. The people hosting it are doing it as volunteers. They donate their time because they love the mystery community and they love the convention. Every year I go I have a wonderful time. And every year I hear people...

Jon Thoughts: Bouchercon

by | Apr 18, 2005 | Books, Events, Jon Thoughts

Bouchercon is held in a different city every year. The people hosting it are doing it as volunteers. They donate their time because they love the mystery community and they love the convention. Every year I go I have a wonderful time. And every year I hear people...

TROY and Other Films

by | Apr 18, 2005 | Home Entertainment

TROY Well, I can’t say I wasn’t warned. Someone actually referred to this movie as “The Brad Pitt Porno Posing Movie”. I sat through the whole thing. Truthfully? It’s a good “Saturday afternoon with time to kill” kind of...

Doin Nuthin' – and doin' it well

by | Apr 18, 2005 | Features

This weekend consisted of my doing not much of anything. Ruth worked in the garden, I read comics. I read a whole lot of X-Men comics. X-Men dating back to the days when they only had 1 title on the stands, The Uncanny X-Men. Now of course there are about thirty seven...

Nervous? Who ? Me?

by | Apr 11, 2005 | Events

This coming Wednesday, Ruth and I have been invited to speak to the Midwest MWA chapter. At first I thought “cool… sounds like fun and free food” But now I’m thinking…. We have to talk about Crimespree for an hour. Wow. I don’t know...

Boiled, Hard Boiled

by | Apr 9, 2005 | Features

Hard Boiled When hard boiling an egg you take something very fragile and drop it into water so hot that it is turning into steam. Water at a rolling boil, violent and potentially dangerous. This kind of sums up hard boiled pretty nicely I think. So, you might be...

Obssessed

by | Apr 5, 2005 | Features

I just finished a pretty cool book, OBSESSED by Ted Dekker He’ s got a bunch of other books, but this is the first I’ve read. It’s as much thriller as mystery, but very entertaining. A quick idea of what it’s about. It takes place in 1973 with...