Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Some thoughts on the school violence

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I must've been in some kind of depression last week. When the news of the Kauhajoki shooting incident came out, I lost contact with the ...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Pari yritystä analyysiksi

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(Just trying to come up with an explanation to all this misery. Will try to write about this in English later on.) Olen runoja kirjoittaessa...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

News links

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I didn't have the required energy to come up with English-language links to the Kauhajoki shooting incident. My friend pHinn provides so...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Thought I'd translate the poem I wrote

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I don't really know if this works, but I was actually captivated by it. I've kept staring at my own poem during the day and been won...

Freaked out? Sure!

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Patti asked in a comment to a previous post if we Finns are as freaked out as they, the Americans, are. She was talking about the financial ...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Alabama White Sauce

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Found this recipe on the White Trash Barbecue blog (great name, that one!), I believe it's the one Patti and Jess mentioned in the previ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

What is that piece of food on the left?

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The Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat had a largeish piece on how Americans are getting fatter and fatter, mainly because of the extra lar...
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The paperback cover for Waltari's The Egyptian

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I found an article featuring the paperback cover for Mika Waltari's The Egyptian . The illo for Pocket Cardinal Giant No. GC-31 is by Ch...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Clayton Matthews

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I corresponded with Clayton Matthews some years ago - it must've been in 2001 or 2002. He's an American novelist and short story wr...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Book Fair, Schmook Fair

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Of course the Turku Book Fair is in October, not August, as I previously wrote. I'm just not able to change the post on Tapani Bagge...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

James Crumley dead

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Just read from various blogs that James Crumley is dead . This is sad news, since it's not long since he last published - was it 2005, T...

Tapani Bagge: Ammattimies

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My friend, prolific author Tapani Bagge has a new short story collection out soon. Here are the cover by Jukka Murtosaari and the contents ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Stranger on the Third Floor first film noir? Nah!

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Just last week I was able to watch Stranger on the Third Floor , a small film that's largely been dubbed as the first film noir, mainly ...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Fake I.D. out in June 2009

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Just heard from Jason Starr that his masterpiece, Fake I.D., will be out in June 2009. Here's the cover (and check out who's blurbin...

Megan Abbott's Queenpin

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Again a short review on a piece of new American noir and hardboiled: Megan Abbott's Queenpin (with thanks to Patti Abbott , in ways mor...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Olavi Paavolaisen runo Waltarista

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Selvittelin Waltarin lehtirunojen bibliografiaa tarkemmin ja törmäsin Ylioppilaslehdessä vuonna 1927 Olavi Paavolaiseen runosikermään "...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Erotica out

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Erotica , with the subtitle 69 Exciting Book Classics , is out. It's a history of erotic literature told through 69 (more or less) clas...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Jason Starr and Ken Bruen's Max and Angela series

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Another installment in our series on new American (and British and Irish and Australian and what not) hardboiled crime lit (and actually ano...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Aimo Kanerva ja Reino Helismaa?

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Reino Helismaa oli Olavi Kanervan serkku avioliiton kautta. Olavi Kanerva oli Seikkailujen Maailman päätoimittaja ja Kanervan painotalon toi...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Breaking Cover by J.D. Rhoades

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In our on-going series on new American hardboiled: J.D. Rhoades's Breaking Cover , his newest novel. I haven't actually read any of ...
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