Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs

About Me

It's all about the musty old pulps and cheesy reading. None of that highbrow crap. If it's got a McGinnis cover then I'm there.www.Bookgasm.com You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Dames, Booze, Getting the drop on the bad guys, Cracking skulls, Busting up spy rings

I'd like to meet:

Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Richard Stark, Donald Westlake, Harry Whittington, Sean Chercover, John D. MacDonald, Margaret Millar, Hank Janson, Gil Brewer, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Lester Dent, Maxwell Grant, Megan Abbott, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Max Brand, George Gillman, Ian Fleming, Donald Hamilton, Edward Bunker, Charles Willeford, Bret Halliday

Music:

Movies:

The Long Goodbye, California Split, The Maltese Falcon, Straight Time

Television:

The Wire

Books:

To many to list

Heroes:

Killmaster Nick Carter, Remo Williams, Sam Spade, Matt Helm, Mike Shayne

My Blog

Column 100 is done

Talk about hitting a milestone. Just sent in my one hundredth column off this morning of my weekly column. To put it in perspective I had no clue that I could continue with my weekly output of reading...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:54:00 PST

Top Ten of 07

BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Crime Time in '07We're taking a break from the usual column to list my picks for the 10 best crime novels of 2007.1. BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD by Sean Chercover I sai...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

VOTE FOR BOOKGASM Before Nov 8

I just got word that Bookgasm is one of 10 finalists up for the Best Literature Blog award for the 2007 Weblog Awards, the world's largest annual blog competition. We're up against such competitors as...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:13:00 PST

Neil Young Tour

I'm a huge fan of Neil Young. Pretty much have seen him since 1986 on. But sadly this tour I just can't swing it. I mean as much as I would love to go. Those ticket prices are just a bit to steep for ...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:14:00 PST

Indie Rock Roots

Figured it was time for another blog post NON book related. Let's revisit a wonderful time called the 90's indie rock scene. Oh yeah I was a supporter a little scenester if you will. Going to whicheve...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:14:00 PST

Yipee!

Just received a advance reading copy of Tim Maleeny's new book Beating The Babushka. To my surprise I was now quoted for the third time. What makes this different from the other two is. My freaking na...
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:28:00 PST

Nothing to Lowbrow

You can read my weekly book bashing column every Tuesday over at Bookgasm
Posted by Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:40:00 PST