Observations from the Balcony

-Book Review:The Evil That Men Do by Dave White

-Movie Review:Transsiberian

-Movie Review:The Wrestler

BOOK REVIEWS

-Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

-Doc Savage: World’s Fair Goblin

-Small Crimes by Dave Zeltzerman

-The Shadow Walker by Michael Walters

-Yellow Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Takeover by Lisa Black

-Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage

-Is it possible to tell by someone’s reading habits if that person is worth dating?

-Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny

-The Turnaround by George Pelecanos

MOVIE/TV/DVD REVIEWS

-The Shield season 7 episode 2

-Rocknrolla

-Miracle at St. Anna

-Dexter season 3 episode 1

-Moontide

BLIPS (short burst reviews — like Twitter)

-Hot Fuzz

-Shoot Em Up

-Vantage Point

-No Country For Old Men

-Sin City

-Hot Fuzz

-Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

MISC.

-Narrative in politics

-Homicide is one stat you can’t fuck with

-Google launched newspaper digitization project

-Interview with Dean Koontz

-Text message story contest

-How many books do you have in you?

-Patti talks about her Bouchercon panel

-A real CSI on the show CSI

-About the third installment of Denis Johnson’s serial Nobody Move

-Random teases from Jason Aaron

-Thoughts on the Kindle

-The books of Trinity College

-Villans

-The book wot changed my life

-Podcast with Gayle Shanks

-Discussion about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

-Opening line of Knock Three-One Two

-Do you write to suit the outlets or suit yourself?

-Profiles of crime fiction writers

-Murder on the Eiffel Tower - Ecxerpt

-Podcast: Tim Maleeny Prisoner of Love

-Publisher imprint report card pt. IV

-Style is not filigree stitched from the outside, a superfluous afterthought like sequins on a sweater. The best styles, gaudy or stringent, are those that express the matter at hand most effectively.