One of the really minor things that first endeared me to Pelecanos is the way he always tells you how much tip people leave -- and his main characters are always good tippers, due to most of them having some tie to a Greek diner. Of course, Pelecanos's father had an actual diner in real life, where he worked from the time he was 11.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Mar 10, 2004 5:13:32 am PST #1181 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JohnSweden - Mar 10, 2004 6:12:04 am PST #1182 of 10002
I can't even.
Loving the Rankin talk, I wonder if he ever reads in Toronto -- off to google.
Oh, I have a ticket to a Guy Gavriel Kay reading/panel next week. This tour is to support his new book, Last Light of the Sun, a book a friend said was like it was written for me (saxons and vikings and bears, oh my!). I bought the book, but haven't had a chance to read it because of moving into my new place. I'll read it this weekend (around friends visiting).
ETA: Looks like Rankin was here in '01 promoting Resurrection Men, but not since.
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2004 6:37:48 am PST #1183 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Disney buys Judy Blume books to make into films
Oh, ack. Pfui.
Susan W. - Mar 10, 2004 6:40:18 am PST #1184 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
First Narnia and now this? I tremble to think what's next.
erikaj - Mar 10, 2004 6:40:46 am PST #1185 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I love when writers put in that kind of life detail, Jesse. I do it in my stories.
Megan E. - Mar 10, 2004 7:09:05 am PST #1186 of 10002
Disney buys Judy Blume books to make into films
Oh, ack. Pfui.
Unfortnately, I forsee the casting of Dakota Fanning as Margaret.
deborah grabien - Mar 10, 2004 7:45:58 am PST #1187 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Disney buys Judy Blume books to make into films
"Are you there, God? It's me, Michael Eisner."
Yuck.
erikaj - Mar 10, 2004 8:03:43 am PST #1188 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Dakota Fanning...no. Margaret Simon(hello?) probably looks more like Allyson age 12.
Katerina Bee - Mar 10, 2004 8:44:20 am PST #1189 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
The BBC produced a few episodes of the Narnia story, I think in the 80s. The actress playing Lucy was chunky, freckled, and had the most godawful horsey overbite. We said, "Well, maybe she's a really good actress?" Oh no. All the poor child could do was open her mouth wide to indicate wonder, fear, anger at Edmund, frustration when nobody would believe her story about the woods in the wardrobe, etc. Lemme tell you, the horrors of bad British dentition played a large part in our inability to suspend disbelief during this production. Plus Aslan was a poorly controlled animatronic plush with jerky movements and no facial expression. It was altogether quite disappointing.
So I think, the next try can't be too much worse.
Megan E. - Mar 10, 2004 9:16:59 am PST #1190 of 10002
Dakota Fanning...no. Margaret Simon(hello?) probably looks more like Allyson age 12.
Depends on how long it take to develop the movies, I guess.