Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Straight to Hell and assorted Western-themed oddities

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Some weeks ago we held the annual summer meeting of the Finnish Western Society in which I've been the chairman for over ten years now. ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

New publications

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I just picked these new publications earlier today from the publisher and the printers. From the left: a small collection of Olavi Karjali...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday's Forgotten Book: Robert Colby: The Captain Must Die

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Thanks to Kindle and Prologue Books , I was finally able to read this magnificent crime paperback by Robert Colby that has been getting prai...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Strange One (1957)

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I think this one really qualifies as an Overlooked Film, especially in Finland, where it's never been shown in the Finnish Film Archi...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Urban Waite: The Terror of Living

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This debut novel by the 28-year old writer made its way, rather surprisingly, into Finnish. It's a very good crime novel, reminiscent of...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Tuesday's, er, Wednesday's Overlooked Movie: Best Seller

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When I first saw this film back in the day, I was very surprised to see a clever, critical and well-thought crime film. It has stuck with me...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

My Kindle

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I just bought a used Kindle via net and received it today. I've already registered it and downloaded - is that the right word here? - ...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Al Nussbaum collection!

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Al Nussbaum was a famous bankrobber and a friend and colleague of the hardboiled classic Dan J. Marlowe who churned out short stories in the...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

My newest book

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Here's the cover for my newest book. It's a collection of short stories with private eye Joe Novak, earlier published in my self-p...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Goodbye, Uncle Tom

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The mondo documentaries were a fad in the sixties carrying on till the seventies and even the early eighties. The genre was born in the hand...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

More old animations

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I watched the whole VHS cassette I mentioned earlier having the fifties' Disney animated short Susie, the Blue Little Coupe . Found out...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Friday's Forgotten Book: The Mark of Zorro

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I've been compiling the new issue of Ruudinsavu (= Gunsmoke), the official magazine of the Finnish Western Society. I've been dreami...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Jason Starr's Tough Luck Redux

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Jason Starr's Facebook status from earlier today: "Handed in screenplay MICKEY PRADA (based on my novel Tough Luck) for Michael Rap...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ben Haas

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Lynn Munroe has just posted an excellent essay and a thorough bibliography on Ben Haas in his website . Ben Haas was of course better known ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Susie, the Little Blue Coupe

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Finland also had its share of cheap VHS cassettes loaded with old animated cartoons that had fallen out of copyright, mainly from the small ...
Monday, September 17, 2012

New sleaze novel just coming up

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As some of you are aware, I've self-published two sleaze crime paperbacks in 2010 and 2011. This year will see yet another sleaze novel,...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Just a work-related update

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I've been working my ass off lately, writing articles and reviews for the magazine of the Finnish Western Society, Ruudinsavu (= Gunsmok...
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Thursday, September 06, 2012

Noir Magazine for tablets in the works!

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Here's more about the project.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Patrick DeWitt: The Sisters Brothers

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Catchy title, ain't it? I'm in a minority here, but the title is probably the best thing in the book that's been celebrated ever...
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Monday, September 03, 2012

Peter Rozovsky on hardboiled

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In his blog I too rarely read Peter Rozovsky has started a new series of posts: he looks into the classic American hardboiled crime fiction....
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