A non-musical selection this time! Here’s a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Alec Baldwin parodies his role in the ruthless-businessmen drama movie Glengarry Glen Ross. This time he’s sent to motivate Santa’s elves!
THE CHILLING KILLING WIND: COVER REVEAL!!!!
Well, I could do a bunch of preamble stuff, but why bother? Here it is!
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The blurb text reads:
Tonight, former detective John Lazarus will finally put his old life behind him. He has a new job as a teacher, a new home, and a new love. All he has to do is get through tonight’s execution of Roy Edgar Chalmers, the last of the three men who killed John’s wife in a botched robbery. Once Chalmers is dead, John Lazarus will be done with his old life at last.
But tomorrow the murders will start: strange, violent crimes whose only connection is the pair of voices exhorting the perpetrators to kill. As an occasional police consultant, John Lazarus will increasingly suspect that something abnormal is at the heart of these killings. And when Roy Edgar Chalmers, not nearly so dead as he should be, approaches him for help, John Lazarus will realize that maybe his old life isn’t quite done with him….
Release is coming soon, folks!
(And don’t forget to check out the book’s prologue!)
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
So this is weird. I didn’t forget yesterday. I drew a blank.
Remember, I’m getting each week’s selection via a music challenge that is the kind of thing you find on Twitter occasionally. So far so good for the first few weeks, but now we’re up to Number Four, which is:
of Someone You’d Rather Forget.
See, I got nothin’. I can literally think of no one in my life (or who was ever in my life) that I’d like to simply forget. I thought about going political (that “Money Money Money” song they used as the theme for The Apprentice, before that show’s host made a disastrous career change), but I wasn’t in the mood for that. So, for lack of anything else, here’s “Part of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. Why? Well…this friggin’ movie was the featured event in two different dates I went on when I was in college, and in both instances, those dates were followed the next day by the “It’s not you, it’s me” speech. So…yeah. (I did eventually watch the movie with The Girlfriend, but only after we’d been dating for a year and I could be reasonably confident that its jinx effect had worn off. Which it had…either that, or it’s just taking decades to work, but I really hope not.)
So yeah. “Part of Your World”. Whatevs, Ariel. Harumph!
(Oh, and obviously I feel no particular animus toward either of those young women from back in the day. One’s even a friend on Facebook! I’ve no idea whatever became of the other one, other than that I think she’s a school teacher in Iowa someplace.)
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Bad Joke Friday
An ANNOUNCEMENT.
My next book, a supernatural thriller called The Chilling Killing Wind, is nearing release, and to that purpose you can read the Prologue over on my official site! Check it out!
Next week I’ll reveal the cover!
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Transcriptions of works from one medium to another can be especially fascinating, as this orchestral version of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 demonstrates. This was originally a work for piano, and to perform it well requires enormous skill from the pianist. The work’s transcription to orchestra makes it into a showpiece as well.
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The faces of accomplishment
THE CHILLING KILLING WIND: Prologue
Here, at last, is the Prologue to my forthcoming supernatural thriller, The Chilling Killing Wind. Next up will be the cover reveal in one week’s time, but for now, meet former police detective John Lazarus as he prepares to go witness an execution….
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