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Posted for a friend: I am editing an anthology of short fiction by Latinos/as in which the City of Los Angeles plays an integral role. I am interested in provocative stories on virtually any subject by both established and new writers. Stories may range from social...

Bill Maher

I liked Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect, I love him on Real Time on HBO. He says what’s on his mind, and I respect that in almost anybody. But he also thinks before he says things, and that’s why I really like him. I don’t agree with everything...

Ten Things…

Saw this somewhere else and liked the idea. TEN THINGS I’VE DONE THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T 1) When in Italy in 1980, I had five Italian soldiers stop me with machine guns drawn. They spoke no English, and my Italian consists of Spagehtti-os. Ended up...

Jon Thoughts: Ten Things…

Saw this somewhere else and liked the idea. TEN THINGS I’VE DONE THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T 1) When in Italy in 1980, I had five Italian soldiers stop me with machine guns drawn. They spoke no English, and my Italian consists of Spagehtti-os. Ended up...

AVP

Aliens Vs. Predator I heard some pretty bad reviews for this. However the fanboy in me was to intrigued not to pick it up. I was a huge fan of the Dark Horse comics. I liked it. I thought the woman in the lead role was great and she kicked ass and didn’t bother...

The Cocaine Chronicles

A great new anthology with short stories from:Susan Straight, Lee Child, Ken Bruen, Laura Lippman, Nina Revoyr, Jerry Stahl, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel...

Walter Satterthwaite

Walter Satterthwaite has a new book out  called CAVALCADE.  It’s in his series featuring Pinkerton agents Jane Turner and Philip Beaumont. It’s 1924 and this case has them traveling to Berlin to investigate an assassination attempt of a local political...

Hunter S Thompson

He shot himself dead. What the fuck?!?? I’m not sure of the impact of this, but I bothers me that someone who seemed to take such joy in saying, “fuck you” to everything said fuck it and left. Especially weird when you consider the amount of booze...

Jon Thoughts: Hunter S Thompson

He shot himself dead. What the fuck?!?? I’m not sure of the impact of this, but it bothers me that someone who seemed to take such joy in life saying, “fuck you” to everything said fuck it and left. Especially weird when you consider the amount of...

Sarah posts links, me? I'll vent a bit..

Ok, I’m putting together Crimespree #5. Working away, loving Microsoft Publisher. I get to a feature that includes all the Edgar nominees. Cool. Uh oh…. The fiction titles are all nice and short, but the non-fiction stuff …. Some of the titles run...