Category: wire106
Report from the field
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As you know, I was away on a mission over the past week. My investigations took me to Portland, a town crawling with dirty hippies, people sleeping in the streets, and beggars with pit bulls. I could totally see myself living there.
Purely by accident, …
Haves vs Wants
NoirCat by Grant Potter and Talky Tina
One of our ds106 Noirsters regrets missing last night’s broadcast:
Gah, apparently I chose the wrong night to skip on the radio shows. Sorry, creators #ds106radio
— Spencer Scott (@spencer_cscott) March 12, 2015
and it was a night not to be missed! But …
Home of Elvis and the Ancient Greeks
University of Memphis writing professor Sonja Livingston sent me this clip the other day, asking for my thoughts. She was actually interested in the singer, Valaida Snow, while I was curious about the movie, Pieges, also known as Personal Column, which has something of a noir pedigree.…
The mark of Cain
Inspired by Jim’s post from the other week, I picked up the EC Archives Crime SuspenStories Vol. 1. This volume contains the first six issues of the series, four of which feature stories indebted to James M. Cain. Road to Perdition author Max Allen Collins provides the …
Guardian of the galaxy
Groom wrote about his favorite Groom art, which included Sharla’s revisioning of I Am Legend. But since I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend, I had to interpret it differently. At first I was going to use the Groot character in place of Will Smith, but …
Tales from DS106
Jim wrote a bit about sharing comic books with his kids and talked about making an animated GIF out of one of the covers
I want to have the dude who is buried alive slamming on the coffin, need to talk to MBS about the best way to do this.…
Call me Jack
We had another great ds106radio listen and tweet session last night, this time with The Adventures of Philip Marlowe – Red Wind and a Mystery Playhouse tale of Jack the Ripper. I didn’t really preview either of these before I scheduled them, so I’m glad they went as well as …
Big Mama
For our third listen-along session this week, we heard the Lux Radio Theater production of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious. This was a little different from our earlier shows. Except for Moon Grafitti, all the others originated in written literature, although The Butterfly was the only one that didn’t adapt …
No wire hangers
We had a great live tweeting session last night with Mildred Pierce on DS106radio. Everyone seemed to be involved and enjoying it. A few things stood out to me.
The first, as we have seen (heard actually) consistently in these sessions, was the impact of sound. Simple background sounds …
