Sense of Adventure

By sheerest happenstance I just found out the sort of tattoo Annja sports on the cover of Secret of the Slaves is commonly called a “tramp stamp.” That can’t be what the Gold Eagle marketing people had in mind…

How did we get by before the advent of Urban Dictionary?

Boy howdy, they sure do hit on emo pretty hard.

On another random tangent, it turns out Bruce Hornsby’s sure a lot more interesting and listenable doing fast jazz than he was as a sententious, received-wisdom-affirming message-rocker in the 1980’s. (And droning. Did I mention droning?) At least to judge by the cut “Celia,” from his 2007 CD Camp Meeting, which they just played on the Jazz station on my cable.

And yes, I did; I did go there. I pimped the CD through my Amazon Associates link, complete with the cute hover-over feature so you can see a bitty product preview. Same as I did with the Rogue Angel book. Think of it as my thoughtfully offering my readers a chance to express approval of me or this blog or just utterly unearned (and unlikely) beneficent impulses by buying through this site so’s I get a cut. You know you wanna!

Shame? I am a writer. I cannot afford ze shame!

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