Just for Reference
Arguably the best statistical graphic ever, this chart was created by the French engineer Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870). It shows the terrible fate that befell the French army in the Patriotic War of 1812 in a combination of data map and time series (originally drawn in 1861).
Read articleTossin' It Out There: Plug Your Blog
Reblogged from Fogs' Movie Reviews: Ok, everyone, here we go! Once again, Fogs flirts with folly, as I decide to live on the wild side and…
Read articleReprise: The One Day Read
The following is a reprise/reprint of a post I did awhile back that was hosted over at the very kind and generous Kaye Wilkinson Barley of…
Read articleBook Review: Suspect by Robert Crais
“The man’s breathing grew shallow and steady, his heartbeat slowed, and when the surge of his pulse grew no slower, Maggie knew he was sleeping. She…
Read articleSon of Danse Macabre eBook Review
“Horror is defined by most as a subsection of the Fantasy genre, though I prefer Neil Gaiman’s metaphor of horror and fantasy as sister cities with…
Read articleA Close That’s a Beginning: Year of Bests – 2012
If last year is to be believed (seems so long ago now), I began a change, as I mentioned in April. Previously, I did not have a…
Read articleHitting The Slide: Year of Bests – 2012
As I mentioned in April, last year I did not have a chance to publish a year-end piece on those web articles (many of them on…
Read articleReblogged » Don Winslow’s Top 5 Crime Novels
Last week, Publishers Weekly got Don Winslow, who as they say has “… had a busy summer. His prequel to Savages, The Kings of Cool, published last month, and the Oliver Stone-directed film based on Savages just hit theaters…”, to share his top 5 favorite crime novels with them.
Read articleHow (200 + 4) / 2 = 2012: Year of Bests
As I mentioned in April, last year I did not have a chance to publish a year-end piece on those blog articles I read and most…
Read articleElvis & Joe in Audiobook: TAKEN
Awhile back, the thirteenth book in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novels by Robert Crais inspired a series at my old blog. It examined each…
Read articleThe Langoliers Audiobook Review
I, and some of my friends, love to read a mystery. What’s not to like? The fiction, one many credit to Edgar Allan Poe, offers a…
Read articleRobert Crais: To Write in L.A.
“The Los Angeles Times determined we have 114 separate and distinct neighborhoods here in Los Angeles. The city has posted several hundred blue signs naming far more. L.A. is a mash-up of uncountable, diverse neighborhoods spread over 465 square miles; hard and soft, painted in colors from concrete gray and security bar black to putting lawn green and jacaranda snowfall purple; beautiful, mysterious, dangerous, welcoming neighborhoods, soundtracked by the music of more languages than you or I or even the Los Angeles Times can count.”
Novelist Robert Crais draws from perspectives both near and far to uncover a city rich in mystery and opportunities in his recent piece for the L.A. Times, A Story to Find on Every Street.
Read articleThe Stand Audiobook Review
There was a time, decades ago, I read every single Stephen King book being published. Nowadays, I pick and choose between the more recent stuff of…
Read articleLos Angeles: Recommended Viewing
Previous: Recommended Listening As I finish my look at the wonderful gift my bride of 23 years gave me for our recent wedding anniversary, this is the…
Read articleLos Angeles: Recommended Listening
Previous: Recommended Reading As I continue my look at the wonderful gift my bride of 23 years gave me for our recent wedding anniversary, this is…
Read articleLos Angeles: Recommended Reading
I consider myself pretty damn lucky for a number of reasons. I have a wonderful family and live in a place where I’d want to move,…
Read articleJanuary Reads Part 2
« Part 1 Many times, I write in reaction to others. And what I write about is supposed to be across the popular arts. Of late,…
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