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hammett time
"Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in rural Maryland in 1894. As a boy he wanted to read all the books in the Baltimore public library, but he had to quit high school at the age of fourteen to help out with the shaky family finances. (His father, whom he didn't like, was a spendthrift, drinker, sharp dresser, and womanizer; but unlike Hammett, who resembled him in all these respects, he was mean and stingy.) At twenty-one, Hammett got a job as a Pinkerton's detective agency operative, which he left in 1918 to join the army. He suffered the first of many severe respiratory illnesses then. During one recuperation he married a nurse he met at the infirmary; then he signed on at Pinkerton's once more, but his health broke down. It was then that he began writing crime stories for the pulps."
city zen
npr report on anime Metropolis.
read my book
the funniest presidential photo-op prop since buddy the dog. heres the wire story.
moldy oldies
df is behind the indie curve these days. he might have had to buy the moldy peaches by now and the new cornelius.
pick me
ye olde bloggies
gravastarved
"New Theories Dispute the Existence of Black Holes"
need we say more?
"Enron for Dummies"
plastic surgery
"Part One: The rise and fall of Plastic.com "
bertram rustles
bert has had a busy year. now hes at sundance.
stroke me, stroke me
hillary clinton gets one/two stroke pieces in the major dailies this week. coincidence?