Gumshoe/ B-Girl Day

Once upon a time I called it Hard-boiled Guy/B-Girl Day.

Since I put it together, I decided Gumshoe worked better.

Celebrate the cinematic release of the noir classic, The Maltese Falcon.

October 18.

Have a party! Dress and speak the part! Take pictures!

Another Year Another Celebration

Another Year- Another Party

It's time again for Hard Boiled Guy/ B-Girl Day!

October 18 is the day to break out your trench coat and Fedoras, put on your gumshoes, and mingle with this B-Girls. In celebration of the release of the noir cinematic classic The Maltese Falcon, throw a party and talk the talk.

Everyone knows the hard boiled guy. So who is the B-Girl? She could be the femme fatale, She could have a heart of gold. The B-Girl was employed by bars and speakeasies to get hard boiled guys to buy them drinks. It is believed the B in B-Girl stood for Bar Girl.  The best example of a B-Girl is Joan Miller in the Burt Lancaster noir classic CRISS-CROSS.

Joan Miller as the Lush

Percy Helton behind the bar

Burt Lancaster in the door

Send pictures of your parties!

Here's an excellent site for pulp novel slang:
Twists, Slugs, and Roscoes

Hardboiled Guy/BGirl Day

The night was cold but the company warm. Fifth year of celebrating the 1941 release of The Maltese Falcon.

Hard Boiled Guy/ B-Girl Day

It's almost here, see?
A day to talk like the Gildas and Gum Shoes  of the golden age of pulp.
Hard Boiled Guy/ B-Girl Day is October 18, a day to celebrate the golden age of pulp on the 73rd anniversary of the cinematic release of The Maltese Falcon.
So throw a party for the swell of it!

Here's a great link for slang to toss around:

https://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

Diminutive Musings: THE FEVER

BOOK REVIEW:

A couple of weeks ago I attended a book party at a local Barnes and Noble. It was for the release of Megan Abbott's latest tale of teenage girls gone bad. THE FEVER is based on real life events from a small community in upstate New York. In January of 2012, twelve girls started exhibiting mysterious symptoms of tics and outbursts. Abbott uses this as a back drop for a noirish tale of revenge and battered ego in a small knit group of high school friends. She explained at the reading/talk back that she'd always been fascinated by the Salem witch trials and was trying to find a new way of telling a familiar and similar story. She succeeds. I found the dialogue incredibly real and compelling. Abbott's characters have always popped off the page to the point I feel like someone in the room listening in. The  scene of panicked parents and school officials with a hidden agenda is so real it reminded me of similar meetings I've experienced in my twenty-five years as an educator and a parent. I wanted to run but was compelled to stay. Five out of five.

BLATANT SELF PROMOTION CORNER: Drag Noir has hit a bit of a snag. Still hoping for a late summer release of the anthology. 

DRABBLES:

Some quick reads are up over a t Flash Jab.  Click here to read: FLASH JAB

CHANNEL WRITES: Thoughts of TV Crime Shows

TRUE DETECTIVE: (HBO) All eight episodes have already aired. It's dark. Really dark. But Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey are great in their roles in the 'partners with baggage' trope.

LUTHER: (BBCAmerica) Idris Elba as a dirty cop with a heart of fool's gold. First season is longer and riveting. Second season builds off of it well. Available on Netflix.

THORNE MYSTERIES: (BBC America On Demand Comcast) You know him as the Governor. I remember him as The Next Doctor. But in between Dr. Who and The Walking Dead he played troubled Inspector Thom Thorne. There were two short seasons: Scaredycat and Sleepyhead. Sleepyhead is the better of the two. Aiden Gillen, aka Littlefinger on GAME of THRONES, is complicit in many of the questionable decisions Thorne makes. GIllen plays the CSI. 

These are my suggestions for binge watching.

BLATANT SELF PROMOTION CORNER: The February Drabbles are up! Give them a read: Flash Jab Fiction  

BLATANT SELF PROMOTION CORNER II: The Serpent Beneath the Flower has been nominated for a Derringer Short Fiction Award in the Novelette category. It was the third part of a trilogy in the Harry Landers PI series. You can check it out here: Nominee