by 40926pwpadmin | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
Sometime in the early 2000s, after reading a boatload of American and British literature in high school and college, and an even bigger boatload of crime novels and thrillers in the years after college, I caught the pulp fiction bug. Maybe it started with the Tarzan...
by 40926pwpadmin | May 28, 2026 | Blog
On the centennial of trumpeter and composer Miles Davis’ birth, there’s nothing I can say about him that hasn’t already been said by writers and historians far more knowledgeable about his music – and about jazz in general – than I will ever be. But I can remember the...
by 40926pwpadmin | May 25, 2026 | Blog
We let Wendel go yesterday. He was a 13-year-old collie-shepherd mix who joined our family in the fall of 2013. He was just ten weeks old at the time, and our kids were twelve and ten years old. Several months ago, he started having trouble getting up and down the...
by 40926pwpadmin | Apr 6, 2026 | Blog
Somewhere during my middle school years in the mid-1970s, I started dialing in to the late-night sci-fi/horror movie of the week that the CBS affiliate in Cleveland (WJW, Channel 8) aired every Friday night after the eleven o’clock news. I was probably twelve or...
by 40926pwpadmin | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog
The Shadow, the star of his own pulp magazine and a popular radio drama during the 1930s and ‘40s, takes another incremental step closer to his 100th birthday this month. We can be fairly certain that he’s figured out in that stretch of time what evil lurks in the...
by 40926pwpadmin | Mar 25, 2026 | Blog
“Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew When I bit off more than I could chew…” I was going to start this post with an explanation of the lyrics above, and how they come from a song that originated in 1967 with a French pop singer and songwriter...
