Latest read (audio), The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (1903) by Arthur Conan Doyle; the boastful and boisterous, romantic and exaggerated memoirs of Brigadier Gerard, who fought for the French emperor during the Napoleonic Wars.
If you love Dumas' Three Musketeers give this a go.
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Latest read (audio), Those Who Hunt the Night (1988) by Barbara Hambly; imagine Agatha Christie wrote a husband & wife team, ex-British agent and his bookish wife, James and Lydia Asher, and they investigate a coven of vampires.
Hambly delivers on this, 100%.
Cozy horror. Very enjoyable.
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And May really showed up for that presentation. Entertained the whole room.
My wife teases me regularly.
I grin, enjoying her being her.
That's precisely what some men (the insecure, the one's who lack self control, the dim) fear. Being with someone whose wit will be turned on them :)
I'm with you, wit is attractive.
She's great.
Patric's work is perfect for this cover.
Approaching simple clean design with rich texture and lighting-- combining the simple and the realistic-- creates a contrast of elements.
Contrast is what dynamics are.
New Pulp isn't writing like it's still 1929. It's the spirit that counts. There were several historic adventures in the pulps. The Gladiator movie with Russell Crowe is, in a way, New Pulp.
Space opera is pulp, Star Wars in New Pulp.
Hero-driven crime is pulp. Drive with Ryan Gosling is New Pulp.
I think we could benefit from the return of the 'strong guiding hand' when a new comic publisher debuts. Having a vision, having a say in all the titles.
At least initially, until the line has legs.
Stan Lee was not wrong about this.
A comic book publisher does not have to be vanity press.
Loosely, Pulp is stories in the style of the prolific adventure magazines of the 1910s through (lingeringly) the early 60s.
But it encompasses anything from Barbarians, to Western heroes, Victorian Age adventurers, Occultists, Gangsters, Detectives, Spies, and star-faring Space Heroes.
This is also why I hate billionaires-- no imagination. They just don't realize the fun they could be having-- and providing.
Oh, if I won the lottery. I'd set up an entire comic book company for new Pulp.
Lovecraft's Randolph Carter is a comic book goldmine. One of his only recurring characters, it's a bit of a surprise no series was ever done.
An antiquarian, an ignored sf writer, an occult investigator. And one of the few heroes who may faint when the going gets too tough :)
Horror and dark comedy.
Think I could list another 75 names. Most from books.
It is amazing how many great characters have potential for continued stories.
Bulldog Drummond
Ross Thomas' Lucifer Dye
Campbell's Ryre
Hambly's James & Lydia Asher
Schweitzer's Sir Julian
Ford's Inspector Kley
Niles' Cal McDonald
Saunders' Imaro
Love what I'm working on but also:
Baron Munchausen
Barrett's Aldair
Howard's El Borak & Breckenridge Elkins
Moorcock's Corum & Hawkmoon
Charteris' Saint
Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard
Lumley's Titus Crow
Collin's Sonja Blue
Blackwood's John Silence
Modesty Blaise
Deighton's Harry Palmer
:)
Honestly, they had a spell about 6 years ago where they may have been TOO credible.
A little too serious.
They've dialed back a little on the pedantry, the 'film is Important with a capital "I".
Looney Tunes helps.
Killjoy is right.
Only killjoys make these divisions.
You can love The Lady Eve and Looney Tunes, Casablanca and Comics.
Jerome Bixby-- took me a sec :)
My son-in-law, painting their house. The 'I love you' is for my daughter.
I mean, it could be for me. I'm nice.
Thank you, Ian! And happy birthday!
For birthday, my sexy, wise, gorgeous & amazing bombshell fiancé @superamanda.bsky.social gave me the magnificent #SolomonKane miniseries #TheSerpentRing by @patrickzircher.bsky.social. My favorite ever
comics about Kane & tied with Gary Gianni’s book illustrations.
#ZircherRocks
I think I'm getting the "Dad, you hike so slow" look.
My son and his fiancee visited last month.
Family photos quickly remind me "It's a good life ".
Driving around with my ridiculous dog.
"What's your medical emergency?"
"I just need to be held."
Agree.
No one discusses the profitability of a Fire department or the military.
Those are viewed as costs.
So is the post office, libraries, public transit.
Celeb my wife most resembled.
I didn't stand a chance.
About 96% positive, I love books. But every once in a while something is Not for me.
Weird, I read two sexually explicit Chinese novels this month, neither described as such by the publishers.
But Owlish evokes the woman-child sex object in modern Asian culture.
An 'ewww' in books or comics.
Life long love for The Three Musketeers. I don't care what part of the book I pick up. I just want to hang out with these characters.
I think I wanted to be a musketeer.
That initial essay is wonderful.
Unfortunately most of the authors I wanted to check out still don't have English translations.
But it did push Daisy Miller, Pavilion on the Links, and Anabasis (on my TBR forever). And remind me to read Dr. Zhivago, and re-read Robinson Crusoe.
I've read The Great Santini.