Hello, Dolly
Posted on | July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments
(to be said in the same tone as “Hello, Newman”)
Hurricane Dolly upped the ante to Category 2 a while ago, but she came ashore far enough from us to not cause any worries. I’m hoping we get a good soaking rainfall at least. We could use it.
Finished off my TV show catch-up from NECON weekend last night. Law & Order: Criminal Intent was fun, with Bobby Goren getting to revel in his childhood fascination with magic. He even had Eames smiling at one point, which is a rare sight. Christopher Lloyd was good but underutilized as the old school magician. In Plain Sight was okay, too, though I had an inkling about where the story was going to go as soon as the burned corpse was found. With Ross MacDonald’s books, I’ve grown to distrust any dead body that has been disfigured. You can bet it isn’t who people think it is. In my next book I’m going to write in a mutilated corpse that appears to be someone—and have it turn out to be, yes, exactly the person it is supposed to be.
I pitched an essay to a friend of mine who edits a review magazine recently, and he seemed inclined to look at it. The essay is from a few years ago, intended for a collection of essays that never got off the ground, so I need to update it, but that shouldn’t take very long. Might be my next project while I’m editing a short story, too.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
July 23rd, 2008 @ 11:25 am
Glad to hear Dolly is not causing trouble in your neck of the woods. Hope others are fortunate as well.
July 23rd, 2008 @ 11:26 am
BTW, in the Southern Ontario area, a new record for summer rainfall has been set. And its not even August yet!
July 23rd, 2008 @ 11:31 am
We’re about 7″ behind on cumulative annual rainfall to date, based on the average. The people down in Brownsville are fixin’ to catch up real fast, I think. Could be 14″ of rain associated with this storm for them. I’d be happy with 1-2″, which is what we call “showers” down here.