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A New Call to Arms
Originally posted on paulisdeadblog: University Prez to Parents: Your kids aren’t safe with us In what is surely a blow to morale for Liberty University’s security staff, university president Jerry Falwell, Jr. appears to lack faith in the campus cops’ ability to protect their grounds. Following Wednesday’s mass shooting at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, Falwell told… Read more
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San Francisco: Crime and Baseball
San Francisco–can you get any stranger? Spiked baseball bats chained to parking meters all over town. They appeared, 27 of them, on Thanksgiving: preparations for the Black Friday zombie shopper apocalypse? Speaking of crime, baseball, and the City by the Bay: check out Tom Pitts’ Knuckleball… The whole city of San Francisco wants a cop-killer caught. Over… Read more
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The Patron Saint of Juvenile Delinquents
Everyone who’s grown up Catholic has a few stories to share, long or short. The good folks at The Citron Review were good enough to publish one of my really short ones: CONFIRMATION Mrs. Dever sees their faces but can’t remember what to call them. They all look alike. They all look bored. They all look… Read more
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Trivial Armchair Protest #1
I like Starbucks’ red cup and I’m glad they dressed themselves up for the holidays. I’m annoyed that Nordstrom’s is bragging about not dressing up sooner. They sell clothes, after all: if anyone should dress up sooner, it’s them. I’m also tired of people casting judgments about how others recognize and celebrate or do not… Read more
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Debut San Francisco Cyber-Noir
Mark Richardson’s Hunt for the Troll (New Pulp Press) is a step up from ordinary pulp. It’s what happens to San Francisco noir when the shiny new promise of Silicon Valley comes to town, pushing back the fog to play some light in the corners. In this case, the light is more ominous than the dark. Our… Read more
Ben East Books 