What I Found at BEA!
In the spirit of going to press (or to pixels) while the story is still hot, for the next week or two I’ll be telling you about interesting books and programs I learned of at BEA this past week. (Yes,...
View ArticleAndre the Giant: Wrestling King, Booze God
I just finished reading this wonderful piece on Andre the Giant from Modern Drunkard magazine. I never was that into the guy before, but now I’m a real fan. I love him the same way I love Bob Moore:...
View ArticleThe Washington-Baghdad-New York Musical Express (with a stopover in Noirville)
I took a quick trip to Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Washington is such an underrated city. There are no great songs about it and there are no cinematic encomiums to it the way there are to...
View ArticleBooklust takes “Don’t Call Me a Crook!” on a trip
Booklust takes Don’t Call Me a Crook! with her on a trip to India! Bon voyage! How appropriate to bring the globetrotting Bob Moore on a voyage halfway across the earth… But should you really trust...
View ArticleFrom Associated Press: “Cops: Man steals woman’s car on first date”
From Associated Press, updated 11:43 p.m. ET, Sat., Aug 29, 2009 FERNDALE, Michigan – A first date went from bad to worse when a man skipped out on the restaurant bill, then stole his date’s car,...
View ArticleBooklust returns and reviews “Don’t Call Me a Crook!”
You might recall my August 23 post (“Booklust takes ‘Don’t Call Me a Crook!’ on a trip”). Well, Booklust is back, and has written a review of Bob Moore’s pickled, globetrotting and illegal memoirs....
View ArticleNotes on Democracy and the Jihad on Narcotics
Nowadays Prohibition seems rather quaint. It conjures flickering, grainy black-and-white images of silent movie stars, flappers, and Tommy gun-brandishing gangsters. Even Prohibition’s goal—a sober,...
View ArticleBe ForeWarned!
“Tis’ the season for the subliminal and the over-the-top political ads,” ForeWord Reviews’ managing editor Kimber Bilby writes today in ForeWord This Week, an e-newsletter. “And they’re definitely...
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