Posts by Rich Lock
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Hard News: Music: The year the…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Snoopy vs Obama
Snoopy as as icon of the Tea Party? Good Grief....
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
do try The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay as well
Not so much a whodunnit as a ‘comics opera’ from the heroic age of escapism.Great book, but given the Bam! Kapow! background/subject matter, its very downbeat. One of those highly fashionable grimy reboots, no doubt....
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to BenWilson,
Which might seem odd until you've read a Biggles and realize that he's basically a flying detective.
Although one or two of them wandered off-track quite a distance. The one where he fights a legion of invisible glass villains from China, for example. Or the one where they find a lost Persian army in the Egyptian desert.
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Emma Hart,
I may have to get myself a Christmas present then.
I read 'Drood' and 'The Terror' back-to-back a couple of years ago. They're fairly hefty, and more 'horror' than they are 'murder-mystery'.
The amount of background research and detail is extremely impressive, if nothing else.
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Emma Hart,
I can't fathom what would make me sit through I and II again.
The only way to make any of the prequels 'watchable' is to watch them via Red Letter Media's 'reviews', which are almost longer than the films themselves.
I finally achieved some sort of catharsis over the four or so hours it took me to watch these.....
Part one for Ep 1 here:
ETA: in an over-abundence of caution, these might need a trigger warning, as they're told from the point of view of a deranged serial killer....
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Emma Hart,
The book I most often claim as my favourite is Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, which is one of the contenders for the title of “first detective novel”. It’s a masterful piece of fiction, especially considering Collins was bombed out of his skull on laudanum and managing two mistresses. It’s a series of first-person narratives from a succession of characters, and each narrator’s voice is absolutely distinctive.
Have you read Dan Simmons' 'Drood'?
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...and just to add: I'd commend and recommend anyone who has an unpleasant bike v car encounter to contact the police. Just don't expect a particualry positive reception or results unless you're prepared to push hard for it against institutional apathy.
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Hard News: Change for the Better, in reply to Lilith __,
So she was saying you intentionally rammed her car with your pedal, with a high likelihood of causing your own death or serious injury...?
No, her defence was that once she'd rammed me into the bus, I'd cracked her windscreen by repeatedly pounding on it. Which I did, because I was trapped between a bus and her car, flooded with adrenaline, and wanted her to move. Which is apparently sufficient reason for the police to not want to take any further action.
ETA: I didn't realise I'd cracked her windscreen at the time, I was told this by the police later on.
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Hard News: Change for the Better, in reply to Lilith __,
Surely this is assault with a weapon? Not just a traffic infringement.
I was once crushed into the side of bus on Customs St by a young lady deliberately puliing her car over to the left as I slowly filtered through between her on my right and the bus to the left. My RH bike pedal got caught and mangled in her front-left wheel well. Fortunately I'd managed to pull my leg clear before that.
Shortly after reporting her to the police, I was told that it was essentially 'he said, she said' as I'd damaged her car and I was advised that as she'd been spoken to, I was best off dropping the matter. My confidence in the ability of the police to handle these types of incidents appropriately is not exactly sky-high.
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Slightly off topic, but I suspect his might be of interest to more than a few on here:
Cambridge University is running an on-going on-line study which (and I'm reading between the lines) appears to be investigating the links between the way music perception/ability and Autism Spectrum characteristics.
The website is here.
Their press release (and my hat tip to IFLScience) is here.
You can run the tests on yourself and get the results. Not wanting to be self-obsessed or anything, but it's utterly fascinating.