Friday, March 30, 2007

Black Horse Westerns on crime/western authors

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I've forgotten to link to this : Keith Chapman alias Chap O'Keefe talks in lenght about British and American crime authors who'v...

Utterly fascinated by Mystery*File blog

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Everyone blogs about Finnish politics and other important matters, but I'm most fascinated by articles, essays and reminiscences about l...

Pictures from Cyprus

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Don't have time to write a full travelogue, but here are some shots from our trip to Cyprus. Captions explain at least something, hopefu...

Haunting pictures

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Here are two misfortunate shots from somewhere in Cyprus. Don't know what they are, but they seem like stills of an experimental film, d...

At the airport

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We had to wait for two hours at the Pafos airport on Sunday. Kauto was able to entertain himself playing zoo with his plastic animals and em...

At the old castle

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On the last day on Cyprus, we visited the medieval castle in the centre of Limassol. It was very impressive spatial experience. Here Kauto a...

At the zoo

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We are so poor photographers that we when we visit the zoo, we don't take pictures of animals.

Too much wine?

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Kauto and Elina at the delightful meze meal somewhere in the mountains. Kauto has had too many glasses of wine (which was excellent, by the ...

Afrodite and I

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We climbed to a hill on top of which had been a temple dedicated to the worship of Afrodite. The large urn had been found intact among the r...

Kauto and I at an old church

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Here we are at an old church in the little village of Lania (or Laneia).
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Ellroy's Blood On the Moon

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I mentioned James Ellroy and my admiration for his LA Quartet in a previous post and that reminded me that I completely forgot to make a men...

True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne

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Ed Gorman posted a list of ten forgotten crime novels that should be read and reread over and over: Odds Against Tomorrow William P. McGiver...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Borowczyk's Dr Jekyll et les femmes

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Last night I saw Walerian Borowczyk's weird erotic horror film Docteur Jekyll et les femmes . The film is from 1981 and very weird indee...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

A book out

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I just saw the first drafts of the Turku crime story anthology I've edited. It looks good, with the cover by Jukka Murtosaari. I'll ...
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Vastakkainasettelun aika on jälleen

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(This is about Finnish politics.) Sunnuntain Hesarissa kirjoitettiin kokoomuksen vaalivoitosta. Jutun kärkenä oli Sanna Perkiö, jonka boheem...
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and other flicks

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In lieu of a travel report, here are some bits of films seen lately: John Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1974): a great, unde...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Joe Novak

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I've mentioned my private eye hero Joe Novak here so often that I thought the thing could need some explaining. Here's an entry I wr...

Another fictionmag coming - soon?

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Here's a cover by Jukka Murtosaari for another fictionmag that's coming out some time later this year: it's called Mälli/Spunk, ...
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A new fictionmag

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A new fictionmag came out today: it's called Seikkailukertomuksia/Adventure Stories and it contains mostly new stories by Finnish writer...

Bill Clinton in a Finnish pulp story

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Here's a snippet from a Finnish horror story from 1939 that I'm editing for a collection of short horror stories of Harry Etelä (abo...