Free Holm

Chris F. Holm has a terrific post titled The Value of Free.

BEAT to a PULP #126: Nobody's Listening by Linda Schenck (Introduction from Charles Gramlich)

From Charles Gramlich:

"I’m in a critique group that calls itself the Inklings, after the British group of which J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were members. Linda Schenck joined us about a year ago. She quickly became an integral member of our cast. Linda smiles sweetly when she calls herself an incurable romantic, and most of the work she’s shared has definitely had a strong romantic theme running through it. In fact, some members of the group began to typecast her as our resident romantic. Linda just smiled. Sweetly. Then one day she brought “Nobody’s Listening” to us. People’s mouths dropped open. And Linda just smiled. I think it was sweetly. I guess it shows that you can’t always trust a smile.

I knew this was going to be Linda’s first published story. And today it appears on BEAT to a PULP."

Personal Lessons Learned from The Blogger Outage

Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations.

New Classic Adventure

I need to read more for fun, not work. And I want to roam outside my usual western and crime arenas. So, I went into Kindle and found many classics are available for $0.00, and I would have gone hogwild, but I opted for just one, Henry Rider Haggard’s KING SOLOMON’S MINES. I’ve never read this 1885 novel but I’ve seen the Stewart Granger and the Richard Chamberlain films though neither left an indelible impression on me. After all, my generation was hooked on Indiana Jones.

Anyway, I downloaded the book and beginning tomorrow will read a chapter a day, savoring each page, until I reach the end and then I'll do a short post about it. I may comment on the book during the middle if something jumps out at me. This'll give me the incentive I need to bolster my classic book diet. Anyone care to join me?

Blogger Update

Google revives Blogger after outage.

Photo-Finish Friday -- Highway to Kribi

I worked in Cameroon from 2004-2005 and aside from learning so much about the culture in this part of Africa, I became good friends with Boh Cyprain. This is a pic of us goofing around on the highway to Kribi.

PFF is the creation of Leah J. Utas.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Message from Criminal Element

For a few Wednesdays at least, and maybe more if people like it, we’re doing audio clips from Western audiobooks. The first one up is Ralph Compton’s The Goodnight Trail.

In the future, we’ll also have Elmer Kelton featured and others, so yippe-kay-yay!

~Clare2e