P.M.P.I. Contents and Updates

Saturday, 15. March 2008, 10:56:36

Pat Maginess, sea turtles, private-eye novels, private detective

"This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A."

-- Mulholland Falls (1996).

"I would never shoot a cat. Unless they really had it coming to 'em."

-- "All My Todays"

It was a long, dark, quiet drive back to Los Angeles.

-- from That Killer Smile

SHORT STORIES:

"Those Songs We Sing to Ourselves" -- NEW!
"Remember Me"
"Hello, Robert"
"All My Todays"
"The Salesman"
"It's a Dog's Life"

NOVELS:

That Killer Smile (Complete Novella).

Click on the book cover to go to the novel.

HISTORICAL:

Nick Carter: The Crime of the French Cafe (Anon/Piercy)

COVER ART MINI-STORIES:

As a service to my readers who might only have about two minutes
between Point A and Point B, I decided to post humorous bits using
the covers of old pulp magazines. Here's the link.

The Complete Cover Art Mini-Stories

REVIEWS:

Hollywood Confidential (Movie Review) -- NEW!
Margin for Murder (Movie Review)
The Proposal (Movie Review)
Best Detective Movies
Kiss Me, Deadly (Movie Review)
Attack of the Sabretooth (Movie Review)
Savior (Movie Review).
Bare Trap by Frank Kane (Book Review).
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane (Review-Essay).
DaVinci's Inquest (TV Series Review).
The Snarl of the Beast by Carroll John Daly (Book Review).
Poisons Unknown by Frank Kane (Book Review).
V. I. Warshawski (Movie Review).

MISCELLANEOUS:

CSI: Noir
Survivor China Episode 2 (Parody)
The Jungle Book Revisited (Parody)
The Black Dahlia Revisted (Parody)
The Nazi Bastard Diaries
Einstein On Lunch (Tiny Tale #1)
Robespierre's Doll (Tiny Tale #2)
The White Book (Tiny Tale #3)
Curse of the Body Snatchers (Tiny Tale #4) -- NEW!
Barbershop Quartet #1
Barbershop Quartet #2
Barbershop Quartet #3
Barbershop Quartet #4

Green Car Buying Guide (Link) -- Check it out, it's really cool!
AutoBlog Green (Link) -- Excellent!

Check out what you've missed in the Archive.

My thanks to Glen Pierce of Topsail Productions for being so gracious as
to give me a link in their Blog Spot links. You can view that one here.

NOVEMBER UPDATE:

October was a busy month in my house, primarily due to the
acquisition of my new Dachshund puppy, Sasha. It had been fifteen
years since my last dog, Baron, was a puppy, and let's just say I
have been having flashbacks to the whole crazy puppy experience.
She's cutting teeth and chews on everything. She thinks she's a
Doberman and every once in a while gets in some guard dog training
by attacking my hands or face. And of course then there's the whole
pottie thing, which I have to say is the least of my worries with
this little whirlwind of a dog. But she is also very smart and can
be very sweet and is getting more into the kisses thing than the
bites thing. Other than that, October really wasn't much of a month.
I didn't do much at all except write and watch some old Bond James
Bond movies. But on top of the puppy, not doing very much was sufficient
for the time at hand. Have a great month -- and oh, a Happy Thanksgiving
as well.

"When life gives you flippers you make waves, right?" -- Karen Sota

Well the only thing that could possibly be better than private-eye fiction
are sea turtles. Humans have been around about 6 million years. Turtles
have been around for 200 million years. Unfortunately, they're having kind
of a tough go at it lately due to human civilization and a new virus out
there that's affecting them. Here's a quick link to several turtle hospitals.
Just click on the images and you'll get there. If you are a turtle hospital
or a turtle rescue organization, I will gladly post your link on this blog,
so just let me know.

Plus: Turtle Live Cam! (North Carolina (UTC -5) daylight hours)

Best wishes to all,
Edward Piercy

That I have made all transformations
According to the dictates of my heart
In all places that have desired my ka

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Comments

So glad that you're feeling better!

I hope the spring brings you much health, more happiness, and loads of love and laughter!

By Stardancer, # 15. March 2008, 17:33:22

I thank you for your wishes, Star; and many to you in return.

By edwardpiercy, # 15. March 2008, 19:17:27

My friend, had you been sick ? How are you now? Hope you feel better.
I am here, at your blog, because I like it very much. I love the small poem about the fallen angel, it is very nice and funny, I laughed reading it a lot.
Kisses for you ... and if you need a better weather you can make a trip to any of Mexico´s beaches. You are going to be my guest of honor.

By greenwitch3, # 19. March 2008, 18:59:21

I am going to post the fallen angel´s poem at by blog, is it right? Can I do that ? Arent you be angry with me ?

By greenwitch3, # 19. March 2008, 19:02:01

You can go ahead, I don't mind.

By edwardpiercy, # 19. March 2008, 19:36:54

By greenwitch3, # 19. March 2008, 19:47:09

re "I also felt the blog moving in the new direction that I spoke of
last month, though I still don't know exactly what that is."

It was always a blog that had a splendid movement. Now add "Impressive and even more Magnificent" and the movement becomes a manifestation of your considerable talent.

That's my opinion and I know what I'm talking about.

Glad you are better

By lokutus_prime, # 17. April 2008, 17:33:59

Thanks a million for the encouragement, Loku.

By edwardpiercy, # 17. April 2008, 20:03:32

By lokutus_prime, # 17. April 2008, 21:30:02

I am here, just to say hi, and reading your nice blog, and learning, learning always from you...hugs....

By greenwitch3, # 17. April 2008, 21:31:40

Hey Rocio. How's it going? -- Best wishes.

By edwardpiercy, # 17. April 2008, 21:33:04

I am fine my dear friend, maybe tired, because I have just arrived from school, but I am ok, thank you very much. And you? How have you been ???

By greenwitch3, # 17. April 2008, 21:41:41

for the most part.

By edwardpiercy, # 17. April 2008, 22:23:24

Dear Ed,
I want you to know that your witting inspires me.
I find it smart, funny ,informative and very enjoyable.It makes me to improve my writing .
I learn so much every day by simply visiting your posts.
Sorry things are not so easy for you these days .
I feel that investing more time in photography, it will be an amazing way to be comforted and also you will photograph things in your very unique way!
your friend,
Angeliki

By ellinidata, # 18. June 2008, 02:51:28

Angeliki...congratulations for being the member of the week, a big hug for you.

Edward... here, just to say hi and sending you a big hug too.

By greenwitch3, # 18. June 2008, 02:55:35

Thanks to you both. And A., two big days left for you to be MOW! Enjoy! You deserve it!

By edwardpiercy, # 18. June 2008, 02:58:05

mother of the week takes too much time out of me !

Thank you both!

+ hugs

By ellinidata, # 18. June 2008, 03:28:59

Hey Edward.
There´s a lot to read at your place here. Look forward to do just that

By nopanic, # 18. July 2008, 08:04:52

"Somewhere between belief and knowledge,
there's guessing."

that's a rather tantalizing statement. you have trumped the sad existentialists. sartre, camus, kierkegaard, kafke, who all drove themselves and their contemporaries either totally nuts or suicidal.

they just couldn't reconcile their conditioning with their reason. so sad. but they did provide a stepping stone.

i like this line because it opens the question of the meaning of existence. which i hope will remain open forever. for everyone.
like that great mind einstein is quoted as saying... " answers are dead. questions are alive."

By I_ArtMan, # 23. July 2008, 05:38:19

Great quote by Einstein. And thanks for your comments, Scott. Gives me more to think about.

By edwardpiercy, # 23. July 2008, 05:40:48

Happy Raymond Chandler's Birthday, Edward!

By noah counte, # 23. July 2008, 21:15:00

It is?

Oh, it is.

Same to you, Matt!

By edwardpiercy, # 23. July 2008, 21:30:32

Thanks! Any excuse is a good excuse... But Raymond Chandler is worth a little extra. I might watch all three Warner Brothers versions of "The Maltese Falcon" in his honor.

By noah counte, # 23. July 2008, 21:32:51

You have the early one? The 1931 one? OMG!

Ya gotta burn me a copy of that.

By edwardpiercy, # 23. July 2008, 21:34:51

I've got the '31 version and a version from 1936 called "Satan Met A Lady," with Bette Davis. It turns the "Falcon" on it's ear, and is played mostly for laughs. It also has Arthur Treacher in it.

If I can figure out how to rip it. I'll send them your way.

By noah counte, # 24. July 2008, 02:11:58

Ah, I just remembered my cheap-ass Wal-Mart DVD player won't play ripped copies anyway. I've tried about four of my friend Sean's ripped ones and they all skip. I guess I'll just have to break down and buy it someday.

Arthur Treacher? So, Sam Spade and them all sat around eating Fish 'N' Chips? That's odd.

By edwardpiercy, # 24. July 2008, 03:04:46

Same Arthur Treacher. The fish and chip chain was named for him, and he was its spokesman for some time. He played Jeeves in the Shirley Temple movies, and the Constable in "Mary Poppins." he even appeared in a couple of episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies."

By noah counte, # 24. July 2008, 13:04:45

i just don't know why they just don't make 'em like that anymore. must we always dig back for impressions? even james bond... ian fleming. so simple, so gripping. and sherlock holmes... staying up all night reading with a flashlight under the covers... what is that interesting now?

also, i just want to go on record as saying, "the book is almost always better." hola amigos

By I_ArtMan, # 25. July 2008, 06:07:03

Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was a genius.

As for books and movies; whenever I wish to prove your point, Scott, that movies are better than books, I point at "The Princess Bride," which is a pretty good movie, but is a phenomonal book (which I've read at least once a year every year since I was 12. I've since lost or given away my deluxe first edition, but I have several copies of it in paperback).

By noah counte, # 25. July 2008, 13:41:28

It's hard to squeeze into a two hour movie all that you can cover in a book. It's like the difference between spending three days in some foreign country as opposed to living there for six months.

They do a good job with translations occasionally. "The Name Of the Rose" I would never have thought possible to turn into a movie, but they did it, and it turned out to be a very good translation -- and in fact the fire in the library scene at the end was better than the book -- with Sean Connery dropping the few books he could save out of his robes, looking down at them...and you knew in his face all that had been lost. Ecco didn't write that. They just threw it in.

By edwardpiercy, # 25. July 2008, 17:52:19

Interesting how much more you can show with imagery, and how much is lost without words. Crazy, ironic world, eh?

By noah counte, # 25. July 2008, 18:46:31

Very true. It's like that old question -- "Would you rather be blind or deaf?" -- well, hopefully, neither.

There is theater. In that you have both words and imagery. Like a good performance of Shakespeare.

Which I suppose would lead us into film versions of Shakespeare -- Ha!

By edwardpiercy, # 25. July 2008, 19:14:55

shakespeare in love... not shakespeare, but eminently entertaining.

By I_ArtMan, # 26. July 2008, 07:15:40

Edward - you know I always enjoy visiting and reading your pages - sometimes I 'overstay' and try to fill up my comment box to an extent that makes me temporarily forget I am not on my own pages and must not monopolize space

...but always...always... I come away having learned something new from you
and I feel constantly privileged and enriched through this experience.

ya c wot i'm sayin? i jis caint stop writin here - mus b orl th magic u stir up

By lokutus_prime, # 27. July 2008, 23:32:05

"ya c wot i'm sayin?"

Evidently, putting the jizzle in my bezizzle or something like that.

Thank you. Always a pleasure.

By edwardpiercy, # 27. July 2008, 23:44:44

By lokutus_prime, # 27. July 2008, 23:57:46