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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night." -Edgar Allan Poe As I said in my post yesterday, I took a few days off from blogging earlier this week to detox from the Internet. I had my A1c done, and we took Elvis for his usual appointment with Dr. B and we took care of some assorted chores, but with the ample time left over I simply didn't feel like...
I did not get laid. We did not even see the Edgar Allan Poe performance, which was called "Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!", by the way. Like he was Peter Frampton or something. The information about the show in the flyer was misleading. It listed the start time as 7PM, but that was when the doors opened. The show didn't start until 8PM. We were at the theater by 6:30 wondering what was taking so long....
Our review this week on the podcast is of the 1999 anthology called "Classic Mystery Stories," edited by Douglas G. Greene. It's a Baker's Dozen of stories, starting with Edgar Allan Poe and coming up (down') through H. C. Bailey...
I've never been to Baltimore except to change planes, but I'm ready to go after reading Laura Lippman's In a Strange City , a mystery with the Poe Toaster at its center. For more than fifty years, a visitor leaves three roses and a half-bottle of cognac at Poe's grave; he (or she) comes in the wee hours of the morning on Poe's birthday (January 19th). Lippman takes this tradition and runs with it,...
As a Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi batted a thousand in murder cases: 21 trials, 21 convictions, including the Charles Manson case in 1971. As an author, Mr. Bugliosi has written three No. 1 best sellers and won three Edgar Allan Poe awards, the top honor for crime writers. More than 30 years ago he co-wrote the best seller Helter Skelter, about the Manson case. His latest, a polemic...
The Bronx cottage where Edgar Allan Poe and his wife lived in the late 1840's is getting its first full restoration, plus a visitors center. The restoration's slated to start next spring and last a year, during which time the cottage, at 2460 Grand Concourse, will be closed. Construction of the visitors center is already under way, according to The Washington Post . The restoration will cost $250,000,...
Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet: To Science An Edgar Allen Poe sonnet about science set to music and video. Google reveals truth behind Apollo! Two guys create a YouTube spoof that manages to simultaneously lampoon the reach of Google and the idea of a sound-stage moon landing. Women, Science, and Publishing Revisited New data call into question the concrete benefit of double-blind paper reviews. The Nose...
It was many and many a year ago in a cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces. Long a tourist attraction, the small five-room building will soon give visitors an even better sense of the poet and...
Source: [b]NYT[/b] As a Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi batted a thousand in murder cases: 21 trials, 21 convictions, including the Charles Manson case in 1971. Skip to next paragraph As an author, Mr. Bugliosi has written three No. 1 best sellers and won three Edgar Allan Poe a...
The Bronx cottage where Edgar Allan Poe wrote many of his classics is getting an overhaul. The tourist attraction - a cozy, five-room building - will be closed to visitors beginning in the spring.
