Comments on: Murder Mystery Published

By: skzb

skzb — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:29:26 +0000

ktard: Not really my site; the only thing I have to do with it is knowing Adam and Chris. I agree about Kreiger; I think he’s on there a lot.

My best game is limit; I can only do well in NL against very bad players.

By: ktard

ktard — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:51:44 +0000

Lou Kreiger is the man… does he contribute enough to the site to make it worth it?

Besides your typical wonderful prose …

BTW what is your game NL or Limit?

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:31:42 +0000

Cool!

By: L. Raymond

L. Raymond — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:46:20 +0000

It was mailed this morning, 2nd day delivery, so it should arrive by Wednesday. Enjoy.

By: skzb

skzb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:23 +0000

Wow! That would be great! Thanks!

By: L. Raymond

L. Raymond — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:14:30 +0000

Well, if it’s not too presumptuous, I’d be happy to mail my copy to you c/o Poking You. It’s a good book with important info that I think needs to be known, and since I’ve already copied out the bibliographic info I want, the book itself is now in my to-be-recycled pile. I normally ship that stack of books to Austin, so it wouldn’t be at all inconvenient to send one book elsewhere.

By: skzb

skzb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:18:45 +0000

L. Raymond @ 5: No, I’m not familiar with the book, though I should be. I started with the Civil War and found myself going backward, looking for causes, instead of forward looking for effects. I really should dig into Reconstruction a bit.

By: L. Raymond

L. Raymond — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:28:21 +0000

This isn’t pertinent to the thread, but not being sure where else to ask…

I just read the two WSWS articles you’ve linked to, and the one on community service beings to mind a new book I wonder if you’ve read, Slavery by Another Name by Blackmon. It examines how the southern industrialists basically re-enslaved black people after the Civil War, at first by simply kidnapping them, then by twisting the peonage laws and pretending it was legal.

The prose is subpar, but when he’s reporting the facts and not trying to be literary, it’s very horrifying and informative.

By: skzb

skzb — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Hmm…I’ll have to try reading that with a Sam Elliott voice-over in my head. Sounds kind of cool.

By: L. Raymond

L. Raymond — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:57:33 +0000

Obviously it’s set in modern times, but you two so perfectly struck a tone reminiscent of pulp westerns I found myself reading with in Sam Elliott’s voice. It’s an evocative beginning, and should be great fun as it unfolds.

(I mean pulp in a good way; Robert E Howard’s pulp westerns are a favorite of mine.)