I am curious how many reader's understood the reference to "Memison's - Famous for Fish Dinners" ?
It is a reference to an obscure novel by an an obscure British writer, E. R. Eddison. Eddison is probably best known for a less obscure novel, "The Worm Ouroboros". It was a cult favorite in the late 1960's. Eddison's second novel, "Mistress of Mistresses" is very difficult to comprehend. His final novel - incomplete at the time of his death, "A Fish Dinner in Memison" was competely incomprehensible to me. A few pages into the text it shifts into Greek - with no translation provided. (I guess you are supposed to have a "classical" education and know Greek...)

Second - Back in the early 1980's I met two building hackers. It was under the dome at the top of the Chrysler Building. The Hackers were two older ladies who had the hobby of visiting the non-public areas on the top of NYC buildings. They told me how to "hack" the Woolworth building. ( I did later that day!)

Florida Writer (Bob)

Wasn't there supposed to be a couple more of these comics?

No spoilers, just a brief review. I thought it was good in some ways and very disappointing in others. You can defintely tell Shane Black made the movie, if you've seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang you'll notice a similarity in dialogue. Actors were good, action was good and the story was good. My complaint is that it should have been called Iron Everyone but Stark, because there is very little screen time devoted to Iron Man and plenty to his associates. There is a twist, some like some don't, depends on how invested you are in the comics I think. Overall, it was a pretty good movie, just not up to the hype.

One of the truly great pioneers of special effects died yesterday. I think the cinematic world is a lot worse off today. His talent and dedication to the art form was extraordinary, whether it was Talos or skeletons or a roc or Bubo, he made me love his films. Another door to yesteryear is closed.

I don't post on here these days but I just wanted to stop by and say how much I enjoyed The Proteus Cure. From start to finish it was a thrilling read. Great characters, terrific storyline. Well done on all counts (and to both writers.). I think I'll go back and re-read some of the other medical thrillers now - but first, I'm off to track down some Tracy L Carbone books.

I may just be a hardcore/diehard fpw/rj/AC fan, but I just was on goodreads and reading reviews of some of the jack books and AC. People are just terrible. I understand that my everyone has the same interests, but these people must not be reading the same books as we are! I mean, come on! I remember nights starting a jack book at 7pm and finding myself still up at 6am finishing the last few pages before work. I just picked up the haunted air this afternoon and somehow found myself reading most of it today. Like I said, I understand there are different interests but how could you not fall on love with this amazing story?!

A bunch of people have tried to get me into The Walking Dead, but I just haven't been able to do it because of this series. I feel like a guy who'd been drinking Everclear hearing about how wine coolers give such an awesome buzz. The Crossed are bar none the most evil, horrifying monsters I've ever encountered in fiction.

So, beware, if you click the link below. There will be graphic, hideous violence, sex, sexual violence and violent sex. Do not read this if you are sensitive to such things. Do not read this unless you want your reaction to The Walking Dead and similar stories to be "Man those people are lucky. They have no idea how good they have it or how much worse things could be." In any case, you have been warned:

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Why is it that those of us who do not read eBooks in Amazon's formats do not have access to The Proteus Cure in ePub without having to buy from Amazon and then convert? I feel that is unfair to a lot of your readers. Please pull The Proteus Cure from Amazon's exclusive hands so the rest of us can have at it. I don't buy exclusive eBooks from Amazon. Never have, never will.

This locking up of eBooks like this is one of the reasons I do not own a Kindle. It's not that I cannot do the conversion. I can. That's not the problem. The problem is when I feel we (those of us who read in ePub) are being tread as second class, I will not spend the money. I might not ever spend the money even if the eBook was published via B&N and/or Kobo. This is unfair. Please consider your fans who do want to read and do not want to or cannot convert.

This guy is freaking laugh out loud hilarious! NSFW! If you watch at work, wear headphones.

In this small bit he describes the need for safety words in a relationship. His safety word happens to be "Pineapples".

I'm re-reading the Repairman Jack series currently, the Adversary cycle, and a few of the novels and short stories from the "Secret History." I'm on By the Sword right now. But I got to thinking, since the Ally, up to Harbingers was trying to prune Jack's spear, I thought that the Ally might have be somewhat behind the events in The Haunted Air. The stones in Menelaus Manor were revealed to have been taken from the Keep, which I believe have some sort of spiritual holding power, as the complete configuration held Rasalom for (going from memory, I hope it's accurate) 500 some odd years, the murdered children stayed on in the house as well as one of the Kenton brothers (I think it was Lyle but I'm not sure) from the effect of the stones, and (I haven't gotten to the point of re-reading Reprisal yet) I believe that Rasalom (as "Sara Lom") murdered the kid whose voice torments Father Ryan on the telephone using the power of the stones. It is my belief that the Ally used the murdered girl's spirit in an attempt to take Gia's baby.
Or, it was a "tainting" of the Keep stones by "Sara Lom," who is also a necromancer, which means that the Ally and the Otherness were working together (at least had complimentary goals) to a) prune Jack's spear and b) cause pain and discontent through sheer mayhem.

BTW:
I noticed a couple of discrepencies in Infernal. I marked the pages but my coworker is reading the series for the first time (he's on Infernal now) and I only remember one of them off the top of my head. Abe makes a comment about not hearing of Johnson, NJ, when, as we know from Jack: Secret Histories, he met young Jack there at the antique shop. This is probably because FPW wrote this book prior to the young adult series so I take inconsistencies like that in stride. Hey, it's a great series regardless. And, I was and still am stoked that FPW tied in Black Wind to RPJ. That was one of my favorite stand alone books.
Anyone have any speculations on my The Haunted Air theory?

Defiance is another pleasant surprise. At first it felt like just an amalgamation of elements of various other SyFy shows (the sheriff and daughter come to town like in Eureka, there's a bunch of space refugees like in Battlestar Galactica, aliens and humans have differences to work together like in Babylon5, the aliens seem mostly humanoid with weird hair and eyes like in Farscape). And it is that, but in this case they create something at least equal to the sum of their better parts. I like the actors. I like things that are cliche (the children of two rival families fall in love) and the things that aren't (the parents of "Romeo" are somewhat horrible people who encourage the wedding so they can kill Juliet's dad and brother and take over her inheritance once their son marries her). No one's hands are clean here, but one's hands are completely dirty, either. Two episodes in and I'm already looking forward to the next one.