FURTHER RUMINATIONS ON A DOG’S TALE by Steven Steinbock As I begin writing this week’s installment of Bandersnatches, I doubt I’ll be discussing dogs. If you feel that the title of today’s column misled you, I humbly apologize. Midway through last week’s column I shared some thoughts on Fredric Brown. Midway is actually a good […]
SHAGGY DOG STORY by Steven Steinbock Last week I threatened to bore you with some Shabby Dog history. I’ve done some research. You asked for it. Read on. When I was a kid, the older brother of a neighbor kid told a bunch of us a joke. It was a long story about a boy […]
A BOUQUET OF STORIES by Steven Steinbock Ever wonder where the word anthology came from? Oh come on, admit it. The question has been keeping you up on these cold winter nights. You came to the right place, for in this week’s Bandersnatch dispatch all will be revealed. Sometime in the first century before the […]
HATCHET JOB by Steven Steinbock Last week I wrote ad nauseum about unoriginal television series. The crazy thing is that I set out to write a column about words – and my spiel about television was meant to be an introduction. I got curious about Corned Beef. When you look at it, there are mustard […]
AMERICAN RE-HASH by Steven Steinbock My son Sam and I were watching something on the Syfy Channel when, a commercial came on: She’s a ghost. “Not all vampires are bad.” You’re a werewolf. “We’ll have full-moon parties and invite the neighbors over to eat.” Being Human. A new original series. Premieres Monday, January 17 at […]
POSERS AND DEPOSERS by Steven Steinbock I’d hoped to get back to my beloved Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine collection so that I could share some of the lost treasures and forgotten gems discovered therein. But my reading and writing time has been usurped by other responsibilities. Perhaps next week, possibly next month, I hope to […]
THE BOOKS OF RUTH by Steven Steinbock The mystery world lost another legend this week. Ruth Cavin died on Sunday at the age of ninety-two. I call her a legend because she was, and still is, even though a lot of readers will not have heard of her. She wasn’t a big-name author or an […]