by Crimespree Magazine | 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...
by Crimespree Magazine | 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...
by Crimespree Magazine | 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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 11, 2005 | Events, Jon Thoughts
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | 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...
by Crimespree Magazine | 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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 3, 2005 | Books
Blame Chuck Dickens. He started the whole “great first line” thing, with “it was the best of times.” Now we all have to have to keep up. Happily, nobody does better first lines than mystery and thriller writers. “Shortly after the death...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 1, 2005 | Books, Features
From the wizards of words over at Bleak House– For anybody interested, we’re running a short story contest at www.bleakhousebooks.com. The contest is ongoing. The winner stays for a month. After a month, we’ll pick two challengers (out of those...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 1, 2005 | Home Entertainment
Warriors……. Come out to plaaaaAAAAaaaayyyyyyy Waaarriooooors……. Cooooome out to plaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaayyyyyyy! >cue bottles clinking together< Sol Yurick wrote the book in 1965, based loosely on The Lost Patrol. In 1978 Walter Hill took it to the screen as Director...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 24, 2005 | Features
WRITE of SPRING III Saturday, March 26, 2005 Once Upon a Crime 604 W.26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55405 612-870-3785 Author Appearance Schedule 12:00 Robert Alexander, Grant Blackwood, Michael Dahl, Monica Ferris, Margaret Frazer, Ellen Hart, Dean Hovey, Lori Lake, R.D....
