Monday, June 28, 2010

A foreword to a new book

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I just posted a foreword to my new (still forth-coming) book. It's a book with the famous illustrator Kari Suomalainen's collected f...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

My new webzine: first issue out

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I've been pretty quiet around here for a week or so, as I've been concentrating on another blog project: the web version of my crime...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Tapani Bagge's Kasvot tuulilasissa

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My friend Tapani Bagge's newest book is a little paperback called Kasvot tuulilasissa/The Face in the Windshield . It came out from Turb...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

My Sherlock Holmes book

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I promised to say something about the collection of Finnish Sherlock Holmes stories I edited. The book will be out next Tuesday, with this g...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Margaret Millar's Tom Aragon novels

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As I mentioned earlier, I was writing an article on Margaret Millar for a forth-coming book 100 American Crime Writers (or something along t...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Sherlock Holmes in Finland

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Here's the cover for my newest book, an anthology I edited called Sherlock Holmes in Finland . There are fourteen short stories and one ...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Two Finnish pulp magazine covers

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I took two (well, pretty lousy) snapshots of two Finnish fiction mag covers earlier today at the university library, where I was researching...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Greek film noir pastiche Singapore Sling

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Well, to call Singapore Sling a pastiche is a weird way to put it. Certainly, there's a lot of pastiche and parody of film noir in Sing...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Salted coffee à la Lew Archer

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For years I've been thinking that there's a scene in one of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels, where Archer asks someone - a ch...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

True Men's Ads?

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The well-known British ad agency Ogilvy and the Finnish ad agency Taivas got an award for this advertisement used in Finland. A friend of mi...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

An obscure René Goscinny cartoon

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This is more of interest to the Finnish readers, but I'm sure some othesr will find it interesting as well. I bought some old children...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The last issue of Pulp

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I mentioned before that the last issue of my crime fiction fanzine, Isku, just came out. Now the last issue of my other fanzine, Pulp, has c...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Margaret Millar

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I've been writing an entry for a forth-coming book 100 American Crime Writers on Margaret Millar. I promised to do a 2,500-word article ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Frank Miller's and Zack Snyder's 300

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Last Friday night we were out having fun with my friends from our victorious movie pub quiz team. Between hopping from one bar to another, w...
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Monday, May 03, 2010

A pair of Morgan Kane jeans

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I spotted this pair of vintage Morgan Kane jeans at the UFF thrift store earlier today. I believe they are from the seventies. The size was...
Friday, April 30, 2010

Happy 1st of May

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Haven't been posting lately and won't do it now, but let me just say: Have a happy 1st of May everyone! And do check out Patti Abbot...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Q&A with Christa Faust

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I finally got around to ask some questions from Christa Faust , the writer of the admirable Money Shot , out now in Finnish as Koston enke...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Joe Gores's Spade & Archer

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I finished reading Gores's prequel to The Maltese Falcon yesterday. I was at it for quite a while, mainly because there was too much co...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Some great films seen lately and other ephemera

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I've been really busy during the last two weeks, hence no posts. I'll try to get some done in the near future. But, em, you know, I ...
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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Russell Mulcahy and Dolph Lundgren: Silent Trigger

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I spotted an interesting film on VHs in a thrift store for 50 cents: Silent Trigger (1996), directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Dolph Lun...