Friday, March 26, 2010

Kauto can read

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My son Kauto has just learnt to read! He read at least two quotes from a cartoon all by himself - and he'd never seen the cartoons befor...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tapani Bagge's The Jack finally finished!

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Some of you may remember that I've been translating Tapani Bagge's first crime novel, Puhaltaja (2002), into English for the past f...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Another blog post on another blog

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A slightly pulpish item on another blog of mine here . In Finnish, that is.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The latest issue of my fanzine, Isku

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Here's the cover by Timo Ronkainen for the latest issue of my print crime fiction zine, Isku. The cover illo goes for my story, "Jo...
Friday, March 19, 2010

The Killer trailer

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Dave Zeltserman's Killer (out now) is simply one of the best crime novels I've read. Not in a long time, not in ages, not this year,...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The history of French animation

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I was at the Tampere Short Film Festival last weekend, the festival I've attended to for the last 20 years, with some (one or two) one-...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Larry Cohen's Perfect Strangers/Blind Alley

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I bought an old VHS cassette of a film that seems not to have been released on DVD: Larry Cohen's Perfect Strangers AKA Blind Alley, U...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Christa Faust's Money Shot out in Finnish

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Christa Faust's Money Shot is out in Finnish, as Koston enkeli . Here's the cover by Jukka Murtosaari; more details in the next pos...
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Christa Faustin Koston enkeli ulkona!

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Amerikkalaisen hardboiledin kovin naisnimi, Christa Faust , on saanut ensimmäisen suomennoksensa, kun hänen sensaatiomainen romaaninsa Kosto...

Italian disco at its very best

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I dare you to watch this. Just how can that.. that.. that thing stay on her, even when she's shaking that.. that.. that thing of hers?
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

A bit more about the Harlequin vintage collection

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I noticed that someone had posted this link to my earlier post on Harlequin's collection of vintage crime. This follows closely, with qu...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Three reasons I love noir

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1. Noir tells about ordinary people you can sympathize with. 2. Noir is uncompromising about why people do the things they do. 3. Noir offer...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Finnish translation of Don Tracy's Criss-Cross

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I reviewed Don Tracy's Criss-Cross recently and mentioned not having been able to check if the Finnish translation from the fifties is a...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Thundercrack!

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With the same people I saw the stupendous Hard Ticket to Hawaii I recently watched another cult classic, Thundercrack! It's - umm, wha...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Marton Taiga's SF stories

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Posted a little bibliographic piece on a Finnish pulp writer, Marton Taiga, and his science fiction stories on another blog of mine here .
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

My daughter

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I haven't been blogging much - that's mainly because my daughter (now 10 years old, 11 later this year) is spending her Winter holid...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

John Carpenter's They Live

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Okay, back to normal after The Great Jimi Ellroy Experience. Haven't really felt like working (even though I've done some editing*)...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

A Google translation

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Okay, here's a Google translation of my Ellroy interview if you want to take a look. It's pretty bad and awkward and there are some ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Ellroy and me: The Final Countdown

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Some things you need to know about James Ellroy: 1. he doesn't like journalists or interviewers 2. he likes women more than men 3. he do...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Ellroy and me

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How did it go? HOW DID IT GO? Oh boy, how it went. Ellroy pretty much went to his defensive mood and started attacking me and I got too clum...
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