This heatwave is really starting to piss me off. Seriously. I’m beginning to take this personal like. I walk to work and by the time I get to my office, sweat is dripping off my face and pooling in my keyboard. But my grandma always told me to count my blessings so I think how…
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post if you plan on seeing Batman Begins and you don’t want to know about the ending. I was recently re-reading a section of Fight Club and I was struck by the similarities to the new Batman film. For those of you who aren’t concerned about spoilers, read more…
BookSlut picked up a report from The Scotsman that said Irvine Welsh’s new novel follows the adventures of Daniel Skinner who not only discovers that his father is a gay chef working in San Francisco but he also meets an American girl and ends up falling in love. The report stated “the writer, whose books…
CNN has photos of Bob Doughty, a Florida mailman, who won the recent Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition in Key West. Also at the event, organizers welcomed Richard Hemingway, 44, of Davison, Michigan, who is the fourth and youngest child of Ernest Hemingway. “‘I was born five days before Ernest died,’ said Richard Hemingway, who recently…
Also via MediaBistro, there is a BBC report that “Crime novelist Edward Bunker, who taught himself to write in prison and appeared in hit movie Reservoir Dogs, has died in California aged 71.” Bunker spent a total of 18 years in prison and ultimately published novels. He was Mr. Blue in Tarantino’s film. Read the…