Ray Harryhausen, this one's for you
Mario here:
Busy, busy week. Capped it by attending a signing by two of my favorite authors,
Carol Berg and
Robin Owens. The signing celebrated the tenth published book by each author.
Left Coast Crime 2008 is now less than two weeks away. I'm the emcee on the Mile High Murder Machine, a bus tour of Denver murders. I spent a good part of the week getting the lowdown of the gruesome deeds. My favorite is William Neal Cody, currently on death row for killing three women in an ax-murder rampage.
Ladies, he's still available.
Another tale of woe is the death of 3-foot 10-inches-tall crack whore Belinda "Lil Bit" Bridgmon, found boxed in a Dumpster off Colfax (the Main street of Denver). We have a dead dwarf and guess what was the name of one of the responding police officers?
Give up? Snow White. Don't believe me? Check it out in
WESTWORD. File this under, you couldn't make this up.
Part of the fun was delving into the seedy trivia of our fair city. Here's what was corrupting our youth back in 1959:
On the subject of movies, visit what's being called The Greatest Book Trailer of all Time (in our household):
HEREMy son Emil was the stop-motion animator and wizard of techie stuff.