paulryanoconnor.bsky.social
Crime-writing blogger and award-winning mystery writer.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
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Always with the fab four, this guy.
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I pay because it’s a good service, and I wanted the extended data. The restore answers feature came in during my sub and I didn’t realize it was a paid feature — it’s saved me a great deal of time, can’t imagine going without it now.
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On your feet, soldier! Those rejection slips aren’t going to send themselves!
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Casting is destiny.
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Saw it in a theater last year when they were promoting the 4K restoration. Seen it dozens of times but also see something new. Film had a real power over the packed house, too.
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Thanks for giving it a look!
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Every time I leave that place I grab a box, since I'm headed over here anyway. Give me a couple weeks and I'll be moved in.
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Better than Bing Crosby!
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Fantastic, Bond really used to be essential.
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Very good.
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GUMSHOE FRANKENSTEIN: A real-life Frankenstein's monster seeks a Dracula ring stolen by the secret immortality cult running Hollywood. Hardboiled and snarky. 68K words. Will appeal to Jim Butcher fans, and would fit inside the world of Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water.
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Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
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Or better yet: kidnap Mussolini. Operation Antipasto!
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Same.
Twitter nosedived for me over the last six months, especially. Gradually moving the furniture from over there to here.
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It's got Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. I feel like they should have taken than cast and rolled right onto a movie about a secret mission to kill Hitler.
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There's a twist in this one that I can't shake. Let me know if/when you read it and we can discuss. And enjoy the day! Do some good work.
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Me too. I sometimes build play lists unique for each project. But editing is always done to one particular Miles Davis album.
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It's not a happy book.
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Darkness At Noon, by Arthur Koestler.
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Editor should return for a re-write. You can still see the art.
Steve Gerber would jump the rails sometimes with an all-text page, but he let his artists know ahead of time, so they could take that page off. Scrawling like that on your partner's work ... as a writer, you're in the wrong business.
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Interesting story that should be right in my wheelhouse -- jazz + CIA malfeasance -- but it gave me a headache watching it. It prioritized style over clarity and several times I had to process an image, a quote, an attribution, and subtitles all at the same time, often during music lyrics. Oy.
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Not everything is for me, and that’s fine. Very well acted.
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I bet it’s a startling story!
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They'll turn your day upside down!
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Looked like Ida was on the Millennium Falcon for a second.
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Arrested development. It's the same thing that gives us endless comic book movies. (I say this as a comic book fan).
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Plonk them and move on. The job's hard enough without a bunch of carpetbaggers ringing the front bell.