Category Archives: Books

Page 45

A friend of mine wrote that if you pick up the book closest to you and open to page 45, then the first line will describe your life. I think this type of shit is nonsense, however the Taschen John Lennon book was at hand and I opened the paperback to page 45. “Foreign-made pornographic […]

Late Summer Reading List

PRETTY MAN OVEREXPOSED LUST CAN’T HIDE We have entered August. Summer has a month to run. This Sunday people are relaxing at the beach with book in their hands. Mostly best sellers, but I prefer LUST CAN’T HIDE, OVER-EXPOSED, and the PRETTY MAN, for nothing gets a conversation started faster than reading pulp fiction amongst […]

Father’s Son

Franka played baseball in our hometown on the South Shore. His father worked in Boston. Franka asked our father to drive Franka to the games. My old man got him back and forth without a problem. He was a good man as was his grandson. Franka is on his way to LA to try his […]

Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

I inherited THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE from my grandmother’s library. This macabre image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was illustrations rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh from THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. I loved Edgar Allan Poe’s works, especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of […]

Decisions Decisions Decisions

Here’s a quandry from Big Al Harlow of Pattaya fame, author of the Amazon-Kindle book WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE. Please read the entire thing for the correct impact. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting […]