Rough Edges

Great movie, great music.

This was the only issue of this pulp, which is notable for the fact that the lead novel was written by Edward S. Ronns, much better known...

Still in a bit of a lounge mood tonight. My parents had at least one Les Baxter album and I remember hearing music like this quite a bit ...

JELLYFISH APOCALYPSE "You gotta shoot 'em in the brains, Mabel!" "They's jellyfish, Claude! They ain't g...

As some of you know, Livia and I have spent the past three-and-a-half weeks at her parents' vacation cabin down on the Texas Gulf Coast....

Another RANCH ROMANCES competitor, although even more specialized with its emphasis on rodeo stories. A good line-up of authors, though, ...

Music like this makes me think I was born too late. I should've been pounding out paperbacks for Gold Medal, Dell, Avon, Ace, and all...

I've mentioned before that I prefer Elmore Leonard's Westerns to his crime novels, which puts me in the minority, I'm sure. ...

A lot of that Sixties counter-cultural, anti-establishment music hasn't aged very well and these days sounds almost quaint. This song...

More classic Texas music from the Seventies, from an artist who died much too young.