PARTING SHOT by Leigh Lundin Much as I dislike the thought, journeys come to an end and the CB superhighway has made for a great trip. I expect one of my colleagues could estimate how many bloody words we’ve splattered on this platform, but as we’ve learned, it’s not the number of words but how […]

PRESSING MATTERS by Leigh Lundin Web pages of the British literary magazine Granta carry a comment I respect in this new age of eBooks: "Granta also comes in multi-leaved rectangular objects made from finely pulped wood (no back-lighting or charging necessary)." I’m also pretty sure it doesn’t run out of batteries. But take a peek […]

FEEDBACK by Leigh Lundin Reading My friend Micheline wrote that Umberto Eco is rewriting his famous book The Name of the Rose to make it more "accessible". The announcement surprised me. When I think of inaccessible, Thomas Pynchon comes to mind. Mention impenetrable and several Beat Generation authors (when they weren’t killing one another) surface, […]

The POINT of PUNCTUATION by Leigh Lundin Goodnight Irene Florida braced for Hurricane Irene just as I was finishing roofing a house partially destroyed in a previous hurricane. After Category 4 and 5 storms, Floridians yawn at a mere Category 1. Indeed, surfers were out riding the waves, although one was killed when he was […]

FLORIDA CRIME NEWS by Leigh Lundin Naturally my home state, the only state with its own Fark tag, has to outdo the competition in weirdness. Consider this weathercast– some of us are so embarrassed we don’t admit we live here. (tch, tch, alisa, don’t go there.) Number of Wives ___? Who amongst us hasn’t forgotten […]

FILM FUN by Leigh Lundin Stephen King wrote an eerie novella, The Langoliers, in which monstrous flytraps chomp away at the world, Pacman-like creatures that consume everything in their path. Recently a friend sent a couple of short films, one which reminded me of a mini-version of The Langoliers. These two short film stories share […]

FLORIDA CRIME NEWS by Leigh Lundin William Dillon Melbourne, Florida.  Thirty years ago this month, William Dillon of Brevard County, Florida was convicted of first-degree murder based upon eyewitness identification, testimony from the handler of a scent-tracking dog, claims of a jailhouse snitch, and testimony of a girlfriend. Everyone was wrong. The ‘eyewitness’ had only […]