July 2013

The Museum Every morning I wake and go to my kitchen to brew my large mug of coffee. Some mornings she catches my eye more than other mornings. When I get on a writing jag, I can not help but stop in my tracks and gaze down the road of our run together, that is…

“I know when I am really interested in someone or something, I like to get my hands on as many resources as possible to get information from a variety of points of view. So I don¡¯t see that it needs to be an either/or situation.” This is what Patrice Hanson said to me about Tom…

“I¯m happy this is all out in the open now. It kind of lifts a weight off me that I wasn¯t really aware of but can notice now how much better it feels that you know about your daughter.” I met Patrice in a bar in 1986. We slept together, and that was that, but…

” I have had 80,000 views for this blog. I average 30 people a day who view at least 2 posts. I suspect many viewers are in Russia. Jon It will be an interreligion or pan-religion, in that it will be a teaching that views all religions that appeared earlier as reflections of different visions…

“My biopic on the artist Rosamond was optioned by Oscar-winning producer Ronald Schwary and my courtroom drama placed second out of three thousand scripts in the 2007 IndieProducer Screenplay Contest.” Vicki Presco told me she read the rough draft of Julie Lynches biography of our late sister, Christine Rosamond. Mark Presco told me he read…

My kindred were members of the Swan Brethren who worshipped ‘Our Sweet Lady’. Erasmus called this worship a heresy. In Bosch’s ‘Wedding Feast at Cana you see members of the Swan Brethren hovering around Jesus and our Sweet Lady. These are my kindred. It is not very often you see real modern (at the time)…

“The Russian super model, Ruslana Korshunova, visited the Roza Mira Training Center in search of spiritual peace before she killed herself. She had become captured and isolated by her beauty. She was given the name ‘Repunzel’ because of her long hair. She jumped from a building because no knight came to her rescue.” After Rena…

When Jane Erye is standing crucified on the stool, with an invisible noose placed around her neck by those who were threatened by this strange isolated one, my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, comes to comfort Jean, and offer her a piece of bread. This is the point of transistion. The People of the World now…

When I went to visit Rena Victoria, she was staying in a woman’s dorm on the grounds of the University of Nebraska. I was not let in to the building, and was told to wait outside. Fifty minutes later, the large wooden dorm door opens and out flows Rena in a long green velvet cape.…

This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors. Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight Babcock, Eric Taylor and Dashiell Hammett. In the front row, again…