THE YOUNG AND THE CANCELLED by Rob Lopresti I have been busy at my VCR lately, eliminating this season’s bright hopefuls, new TV shows that I have decided after a few episodes, or a few seconds, that I never want to see again. For the record, the only new show I am still watching is […]
NO EXCAPE by Rob Lopresti You are, it goes without saying, a wonderful person. Nice, reasonable, easy-going, and a general pleasure to be around. So why is it, that every once in a while, you will be in a conversation and find yourself losing your temper, biting your tongue, wanting to shout . . . […]
A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE by Rob Lopresti For the past two weeks I have been celebrating things in this space. I hope you will indulge me if I extend the streak, even though this one has little to do with mysteries or fiction. I would argue that it is, in a certain way, about […]
THE BICENTENNIAL BLOGGER by Rob Lopresti If you take a peek at the right hand column of this web page, under Filed Briefs, you will discover that this is my 200th entry here and furthermore, that due to a combination of hard work, diligence, and rugged good looks I am the first of our little […]
ASKING WHY, TELLING “WHY” by Rob Lopresti It’s always a great pleasure when I get a story published. For the past few years one part of that happy experience has been the chance to write about it here at Criminal Brief. Today it’s more of a mixed event. My story “Why” is in the current, […]
THEME PARK by Rob Lopresti I’ve been reading a weird and interesting anthology of short stories. Not mysteries, but there is a connection. I have mentioned Ryan North before. He is the creator of Dinosaur Comics, a very strange bit of web-based art. In one strip North’s hero T-Rex proposed an idea for a book: […]
WHEN THE THEATRE GOES DARK, IT’S NOIR by Rob Lopresti At the bottom of this column you will find the answers to the last half of my movie quotes page from two weeks ago, but as long as we’re discussing flicks, I thought I’d discuss a couple of good noir-ish movies I saw recently. […]