31 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Personal
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 59,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 22 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
31 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Books
233: MY: All I Did Was Shoot My Man – Walter Mosley
234: MY: Time To Create And Murder – Lawrence Block
235: TC: A Murder Before Eden – Alison Pratt
236: WE: Miles To Little Ridge(ebook) – Heath Lowrance
237: TH: The Dummy Line – Bobby Cole
238: WE: Assault of The Mountain Man – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone
239: AD: Fight Card: Split Decision(ebook) – Jack Tunney
240: SF: Deep Sky – Patrick Lee
241: WE: The Sharpshooter – Ed Gorman
242: Sf: Tales From The Fathomless Abyss(ebook) – edited by Philip Athlan. stories by Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Mel Odom, J. M. McDermitt, Brad Torgerson, and Philip Athlan
243: SP: Tama of The Light Country – Ray Cummings
244: SP Tama, Princess of Mercury – Ray Cummings
245: SF: Blind Traveler’s Blues(ebook) – Robert P. Bennett
246: HR: The Dead Walked: Outbreak(ebook) – Vincent Stark(Gary M. Dobbs)
247: HR: The Dead Man: The Beast Within(ebook) – James Daniels
248: SF: Empire of The Gods(ebook) – David Stag
249: SF: Empire State – Adam Christopher
250: SP: A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
251: HM: One Horse Open Slay(ebook) – James Mullaney
252: SF: Run, Come See Jerusalem! – Richard C. Meredith
253: MY: Stranglehold – Ed Gorman
254: SF: The Time Tunnel: Timeslip! – Murray Leinster
255: ME: Days of Beer: A memoir of a Beer Drinkin’ Man(ebook) – Charles Gramlich
The best year I’ve had in a few, the second highest total since I’ve been keeping records, in numbers anyway. The chief reason is the rise of ebooks. There’s some good stuff out there, not available in any other format, and they generally run shorter than paper books.
I’m on Goodreads and joined a reading pledge for 2011. I promised 240 books and passed that quite easily. I thought I did well until I looked at some of the other participants. One fellow pledged 365 books and the last time I checked was on 387. He admits a lot of them are graphic novels. Still impressive though.
31 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in movies
A Page of Madness(1926)
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout(1950)
Two Flags West(1950)
The Last Musketeer(1952)
The Brain Eaters(1958)
