Hard World For Little Things

Rose McGowan really likes Robert Mitchum.

I think Mitchum would’ve really liked McGowan too.

November on Turner Classic Movies is Guest Programmer Month, as I learned last night when I caught Rose McGowan introducing Charles Laughton’s “Night of the Hunter” and later “Out of the Past”.

Watch those back-to-back and you’ve been through the wringer, boy - with or without Rose around.

A week from today, the Guest programmer is: James Ellroy!

Check it out here http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=183437&mainArticleId=183435

Mind-Blower

As the editors noted on the Detroit Noir blog, the book launch at Aunt Agatha’s on Saturday was a mind-blower.

Everyone who took the time to stop in and grab a copy and wish us well -- You’re aces.

Goodbye Tuesday

With the publicity for the book underway, I thought it time to take down the lovely photo of a gun-wielding Tuesday Weld that previously graced the upper right corner of Zero-Sum World and replace it with a photo of my own grim visage.

My apologies to all.

REMINDER

Book Release Party
This Saturday, One o’clock PM
Aunt Agatha’s
213 S. Fourth Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI

from Aunt Agatha's website:

We are launching a book called Detroit Noir on Saturday, November 3rd at 1 p.m., with a party. This book is an anthology of stories about Detroit. Scheduled to appear are: Loren Estleman, Dorene O'Brien, Joe Boland, Peter Markus and editors Chris Hocking and Eric Olsen. Other contributors include P.J. Parrish, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, and Craig Holden. Our special guest that day will be author Chris Grabenstein, the Anthony winning author of Tilt a Whirl

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That’s 1:00, folks – the Michigan-Michigan State game is in East Lansing, and kickoff isn’t until 3:30….