Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: My Bonny Lies Under the Sea

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Ray Alan was the pseudonym of one Joseph Lawrence Valls-Russell (born probably in 1922, died in 2007) of whom not much is known. Seems like ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

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I managed to see this German cult film about a girl dormitory recently and I thought it was worth blogging, even though it's not Tuesda...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Ideal Hellbient Party

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I noticed while checking out some other older posts that this had been lingering in the cyberspace for years. I don't really know what i...

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Minnesota Clay

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Minnesota Clay was Sergio Corbucci's second western and the first one released under his Italian name - the earlier one, Massacre at Gr...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Rural Noir: A Visual Essay

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Brian Lindenmuth, the fiction editor of Spinetingler Mag, has put up another great Pinterest board, this time on rural noir. Take a look her...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Adam Diment: The Dolly Dolly Spy

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Adam Diment's The Dolly Dolly Spy (translated in Finnish with a misleading title Nukkevakooja ) was an enormously popular spy novel pub...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Interview with Megan Abbott

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I'm doing a piece on great American crime writer Megan Abbott for the magazine of the Finnish Whodunit Society. Here's an intervie...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Another female Hard Case writer!

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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Review of Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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Or actually a review of half of it. I wrote a review of this collection of stories from vintage men's magazines for a Finnish cultural...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Inglourious Basterds

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I was finally able to see Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds last night. I watched it from my small TV set, so it wasn...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Quand la ville s'éveille (1975)

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I  bought this French crime film on an old VHS cassette from a thrift store for 10 or 20 cents. I knew nothing about it, but I thought it m...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy's classic western novel from 1985 has only now been translated in Finnish and I finished the translation a week back. I...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Django Unchained and The Paperboy

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Sorry, I've been quite busy lately trying to work out some new books. Here's a quick post of two films I saw recently and thought mi...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Milestone post!

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I didn't realize my post on the men's adventure mags book Weasels Ripped My Flesh was my 1900th post. Will have to celebrate! Only o...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Weasels Ripped My Flesh out soon!

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The long-awaited collection of vintage stories from the Golden Age of men's adventure magazines called Weasels Ripped My Flesh is out...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: Tough Guys Don't Dance

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I just watched Tough Guys Don't Dance from a VHS cassette I found free in a thrift store. I'd seen it when it was new and I remembe...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

Dean R. Koontz: Watchers

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I think this is the first book I've read by Dean R. Koontz. I wanted to have something long to read during Christmas, but this proved to...
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Thursday, January 03, 2013

My new Tumblr blog

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I was cleaning up an old computer and deleting most of the pictures stored therein, but I got to pity all the cover scans and other stuff I...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Michael Connelly: Echo Park

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I've been having a vacation and reading all sorts of books and graphic novels (I really liked Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere , which I...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Snow sledding

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Here's a Christmas present of sorts to all the readers of this blog: the father of my son's friend shot a video about us sledding so...
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