If I could be teleported to Albuquerque I would be there.

Arthur Lee - Thomasine & Bushrod. YouTube video by L'Art De Sélectionner

Not on Spoti fy, but the Arthur Lee tune is on the tube of you (accompanied by stock footage not from the film) youtu.be/bjlSseqXctw?...

Thomasine and Bushrod

www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

Film poster for ‘Thomason’s and Bushrod’ shows the 2 leads on a wanted poster

Film poster for ‘Thomason’s and Bushrod’ shows the 2 leads on a wanted poster

Last film watched: ‘Thomasine & Bushrod’ from 1974. Max Julien & Vonetta McGee in the title roles as Gordon Parks Jr. directs Julien’s screenplay. Arthur Lee from Love does the theme, but disappointingly no soundtrack album was released…

On April 21st, 1982, three weeks before the release of Combat Rock, Joe Strummer, at the height of The Clash's fame, ran the Paris Marathon with his girlfriend Gaby Salter after allegedly drinking 10 pints of beer the night before.

April 21, 1982, Joe Strummer ran the Paris Marathon with his girlfriend Gabby Salter.

Something like this?

There's more!

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

I saw this movie back when it first hit VHS or HBO and to my recollection have not seen it since. That's been quite a spell.
Dead of Winter (1987) - Trailer
youtu.be/PLyVK9QFj4s?...

FWIW I've also just added to my new website a short reflection on why us human editors are superior to AI.

If you or anyone you know is in need of editorial assistance, please get in touch.

If you haven't read this, but are interested in how Hollywood infected politics with Joan Didion as a lens through which to view that transformation, I recommend it highly.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

I would like to wear this on the train and also at my job at the library

the shift to a winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes? a partisan project. the development of the mass political party? a partisan project. antislavery and reconstruction? a partisan project. even direct election of senators comes out of populist agitation in the late 19th century.

Cop Hater and The Mugger paperback books in Penguin Green Spine editions from the early 60s.

Couldn’t stop myself picking up these first UK edition #edmcbain #87thPrecinct Penguin books editions. Obviously I have the stories already, but in later designs. I’m a big fan of these Alan Spain montage covers.

#bookstagram #crimefiction

Yesterday marked 47 years in business here at the Mysterious Bookshop. Thanks for keeping us around, mystery fans!

THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA

(Also, listen to Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast after you've read each one, folks!)

or, alternately

Donald Trump says Catholics "loved" AI viral image of him as the pope Trump's post came during Novemdiales, the period of mourning observed by the Catholic Church, following the death of Pope Francis.

Trump's controversial social media post comes during Novemdiales, the nine days of official mourning observed by the Catholic Church, following the death of Pope Francis who died on Easter Monday aged 88 www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

we are so back

Another -

Elton John’s label sent him to see the Stooges in an effort to sign Iggy. He went incognito in a gorilla suit. (Yes.)

Iggy, powered by God & the greatest drugs known to man, thought it was a real gorilla, & stopped the show to attack him.

Fellow Dems: you don’t have to be as charismatic as Mayor Mandami, but if you do good things that just help people and take credit for your work, you’ll be popular. Drop the means testing and politician speak, and just do good for people. It really is that simple.

Mail day. ‘Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi Dirty in Seventies New York.’ James Wolcott.

Sixty-three years ago today, Soho was stripped bare in The Small World Of Sammy Lee... #TheSmallWorldOfSammyLee #1960s #film #films #KenHughes #AnthonyNewley #WarrenMitchell #RobertStephens #MiriamKarlin #JuliaFoster #WilfredBrambell #CyrilShaps #Soho #crime

Domino Sugar plant at sunrise as seen across an expanse of gently rippling water. OK, here’s the story. I knew Jacob and Joseph Weisberg from summer camp. In 1991, Jacob was living in DC and he hosted a ‘70s party with Gladwell, whom he knew . . . maybe from Oxford? And I was, at 32, on the older side, so I started talking to another woman who actually remembered the ‘70s. Polite chitchat. When she learned I was a reporter, she said she was editing an anthology and having trouble finding contributors. It was erotica, but high-end, with a major publisher (HarperCollins) and pseudonyms were allowed. She was paying $1,500 a story, which was A LOT. (Still is.) Deadline of July 1. I understood deadlines, I understood writing to assignment, so I did, and she accepted that I wrote. The woman, Michele Slung, was the former editor of Washington Post Book World, had been an editor in NY, discovered some of crime writing’s big talents. She told me she thought I had a novel in me and if I wrote one, she would read it and give me a no-bullshit assessment of it. So I did and she did and she found me my beloved agent Vicky Bijur and that’s how I eventually became a full-time novelist. tl;dr Talk to strangers at parties. Interesting things might happen.

10,000-hour rule* but it’s chicken quesadillas.

*I know the 10,000-hour rule is kinda BS, but I’ll always have a soft spot for Malcolm Gladwell, who was 10 feet away, dancing to “Kung Fu Fighting” in a gold jumpsuit, when I had a conversation that changed my life.

This is factual. See the alt.

Queueing to see

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

at the Cinerama Dome — Hollywood in 1977.

I followed Mrs. Dalloway's walk through London ages ago with a friend, for a piece I wrote on Woolf, women, and cities. I'm glad Dalloway Day is a thing now.

Jay McInerney, the novelist who fell in love with his own reflection In his early career, the American author wrote brilliant comic satires. But his latest, See You On the Other Side, reads like a soap opera about rich people

"As a novel about people getting older, See You on the Other Side is suffused with a sense of past glories, never to be recovered. I wonder what gave McInerney that idea?"

I read Jay McInerney's new novel, which more than once had me thinking, 'Oh Jay, please, no!'