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Music, media, libraries and my tortuous ascent into the middle class.

May 13, 2004

The 100th Waughblog Post!

This is Waughblog's 100th post! What a milestone.

The spring semester of library school is finally over. I start my final semester of library school next month. In the interim, my goal is to post to Waughblog at least once a day. So keep checking back for the freshest in blog content: Waughblog.

My other goal is to read several mysteries: all of which have something to do with rock and roll. The titles are: Killer Solo, Big Rock Beat and (this is the best title) The Body from Impanema. I'm also going to read Biggest Elvis, which isn't a mystery but has a trio of Elvis impersonators, each one representing a stage of Elvis' life. One is the young handsome Elvis. Another is the "Dude Elvis" who represent's the King's movie years. "Biggest Elvis" is the sad, bloated Elvis.

Then I'm going to write a mystery in which chickens are being horribly mistreated. The title will be Murder Most Fowl.

Posted by Mike Waugh at May 13, 2004 08:19 PM


Comments

I don't usually delve into the mystery shelf, but I just finished Pattern Recognition by William Gibson and it was great. I have started and not read the rest of his books and am definitely not a fan so I was very surprised.

Posted by: damen at May 13, 2004 10:24 PM

I haven't read that one but I did read all but the last 50 pages of his classic sci-fi: Neuromancer. Whew! What a tough read. As I age, I've been leaning more and more toward the lighter stuff.

Posted by: Mike Waugh at May 14, 2004 11:12 PM

Murder Most Fowl is taken you know. Not that you can copyright titles. It's a "Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery", about a sheriff who has two murders to solve, two emus to find and a secret cockfighting ring to break up-all on a diet of health food prescribed by his concerned lady friend. Now, how could you possibly write something better than that?

But if we're talking about mysteries here, I just listened to Fat Ollie's Book on audiobook, written by Ed McBain. I never realized McBain was such a hack. Funny, but still a hack. It's particularly funny to read his parody of bad writing (i.e. Fat Ollie's book)which is followed upon by slightly better, albeit bad, writing. Oh yeah!

Posted by: Robert, Waugh the Younger at May 17, 2004 10:15 AM