Monthly Archives: March 2012

Hammett: Only Four to Go

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Don

Terry Zobeck followed through on his plan to hit the Library of Congress in search of pure texts for Hammett stories, and cut the list of seven missing texts down to only four. Plus he copied various other items for research … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: Mustang Sarah

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Don

Nothing else came up, so as far as I know I sat around and watched each and every episode of Alcatraz through the season finale — and my opinion stayed the same the entire run. If it comes back in … Continue reading →

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Mort: Willeford, Year 24

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Don

And if I’m doing Memorial March, and I am, let’s not forget the death of the great Charles Willeford on this day in 1988. The past few months I have been goofing off instead of working on the revision of the book … Continue reading →

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Mort: Tompk, Anniversary Three

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Don

Keeping the Memorial March theme rolling, it’s hard to believe that Steve Tompkins passed away three years ago at the age of 48. I was supposed to write some sort of long review for the upcoming issue 13 of Two-Gun … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Don

Keeping my Memorial March theme going, I caught John Carter yesterday so I could review it today — for the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1950. Brilliant adaptation of the source material, fast-paced, funny (I’m amazed … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Kidnappings in “Death and Company”

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Don

Once upon a time I rated “Death and Company” as one of the lesser and least interesting Op stories. Then Terry Zobeck dug up missing lines from the pure text, which led me to a sudden revelation, bumping “Death Co” from … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Who’s Got the Posters?

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Don

You may have heard about the neat little trove of old movie posters that turned up recently. My occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno just brought to my attention that the haul includes the only known original for the 1931 Falcon starring … Continue reading →

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Mort: HPL, 75 Years Ago Today

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Don

How about another chunk out of the long essay “Conan the Argonaut” by me and Morgan Holmes to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of H. P. Lovecraft? Straight from the word doc, pretty self-explanatory:   After the First … Continue reading →

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Hammett: On the Trail

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Don

Remember the Alamo! Meanwhile, Terry Zobeck is hot on the trail of the last few Hammett stories he wants to check, to make sure we have the best texts — the pure texts — when we slip off our gumshoes … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: An Aside on John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Don

In 2008, under my occasional nom de guerre George Knight, I collaborated with Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes on “Conan the Argonaut” for the August issue of The Cimmerian, V5n4 — covering the idea that if he had lived Robert E. … Continue reading →

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