“We were still going at a fair clip when we turned into one end of this semi-circular drive-way, and—
Axford slammed on his brakes, and the big machine threw us into the wind-shield as it jolted into an abrupt stop-barely in time to avoid smashing into a cluster of people who had suddenly loomed up before us.” —Dashiell Hammett, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, 1924.
Before speed limits or seat belts.
The Immaculate Detective: Case of the Asemic Chair
#FlashFiction #Mystery #Pataphor #HardboiledDetective #HardboiledZen #HardboiledZenKoan #Art #Collage #CollageArt #DigitalArt #Art #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #AsemicText #DeconstructedText #MagazineCoverArt #MagazineCover #CoverArt #DadaistDetective #Dadaist #Dada #Dadaism #Haibun #Tanka #Haiku #HardboiledMystery #HardboiledDadaist #Hardboiled #PulpCoverArt #PulpMagazines #PulpArt
https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/the-immaculate-detective-case-of-the-asemic-chair/
Rewatching #JohnWoo's #Hardboiled. The opening scene alone offers more wild #action than other #thrillers in their finales. Let's see how well the rest works today. I was really into these #HongKong #Gunfu #bangers back in the day. #ABetterTomorrow was among my #faves. #filmsky #movies #thriller
Dadaist Detective - Case 111~w: Footsteps in a Shoebox
A day like any other that was Tuesday, full of July Sundays in the sun – he was walking down the street, his thoughts ran ahead of him, looking over their shoulder from time to time, like a felon running for reelection. I knew the type, I’ve hunted them down those mean streets that time passes by.
#FlashFiction #Mystery #Pataphor #HardboiledDetective #HardboiledZen #HardboiledZenKoan #Art #Collage #CollageArt #DigitalArt #Art #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #AsemicText #DeconstructedText #MagazineCoverArt #MagazineCover #CoverArt #DadaistDetective #Dadaist #Dada #Dadaism #HardboiledMystery #HardboiledDadaist #Hardboiled #PulpCoverArt #PulpMagazine
https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/case-111w-footsteps-in-a-shoebox/
Dadaist Detective - Case 23: The Dead Man and The Missing Marshmallow
The sun sank into the red hills like a platinum blonde knifed in her bathtub. That’s how the case started – a knock on a drunken skull that rang like the black phone on that table by the window.
#Art #DigitalArt #FlashFiction #Dadaist #DadaistDetective #Dadaism #Dada #PulpCoverArt #PulpMagazine #MagazineCover #MagazineCoverArt #CoverArt #magazineIllustration #Hardboiled #Pataphor #HardboiledDetective #HardboiledMystery #HardboiledZen #Dreamscape #HardboiledZenKoan
https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2024/07/21/case-23-the-dead-man-and-the-missing-marshmallow/
Trying something different. Always been a scifi guy, but giving the hardboiled detective/noir genre a go. The beverage seemed appropriate. #books #bookstodon #whiskey #whiskeywednesday #noir #hardboiled #phillipmarlowe
I grieve over them long winter evenings. #Bogart #Bacall bit.ly/k41Nye #Classic #Film #Noir #FilmNoir #movies #NoirAlley #TCM #Cinema #Media #movies #TheBigSleep #TCMParty #SundayThoughts #hardboiled #EasterSunday #Easter #mood
Coming up at Noon Central Time today, we kick off session 79 of Worlds of Speculative Fiction, focused on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files with a video premiere w/ live chat, then we'll continue the conversation about the books in Zoom!
https://youtu.be/O7VoPlq6aA4
#SpeculativeFiction #JimButcher #DresdenFiles #Detective #Wizard #Fantasy #Supernatural #Hardboiled #Literature
If you're a fan of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files fantasy/hardboiled detective novels, we're discussing the first four books in the series in tomorrow's Worlds Of Speculative Fiction session, starting at 12 PM Central Time!
https://youtu.be/O7VoPlq6aA4
#DresdenFiles #Fantasy #Event #Hardboiled #Detective #Supernatural #Worldbuilding #Narrative
Wishing you a Happy New Year! #HappyNewYear 
Godfather Part II
New Year’s Eve, Havana
“I know it was you, Fredo”
#Godfather #NewYearsEve #NewYearsDay #Pacino #Coppola #Paramount #hardboiled #NewYear
"He'll be tickled pink to persuade himself that anything the punk tells him about it is a lot of chewing-gum"
- Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Tonight's movie was a book that also happens to be a movie, but decided to go with the book form per @colorblindcowboy 's suggestion from a conversation with him and @dustinsells on what is noir?
Yeah, when something catches my interest I can get a tad obsessed... I blame World of Books offering titles at little more than a couple of quid each, free postage and 4 for the price of 3 offers!! How can an addict resist!??! 
Thinking about doing a Black Museum inspired creative project/s but still mulling over ideas ...
#Noirvember #TrueCrime #Art #Books #hardboiled #BlackMuseum @bookstodon #Noir #tsundoku
New Designs at my #UncannyNoir online store -
T-shirts- stickers - mugs etc.
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I said “Hard Boiled” was a better action movie than “John Wick”, despite the obvious influence on “John Wick’s” action scenes. so I decided to watch it again, and naturally we had to torrent it.
Anyway it really is tons better.
“Keep those babies coming!”
John Wilder, developer of #TV's #SpenserForHire called #RobertBParker's #Spenser #Noir #Fiction. I think Wilder innocently confused noir w/ #Hardboiled. Noir is bleak, fatalist, about protagonists who try to get out from under only to sink deeper into their predicaments. Hardboiled is more open to stories of protagonists who make their way through harsh environments and manage to remain unscathed. As #RaymondChandler put it, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean."
The Hunter (AKA Point Blank, 1962), the first hardboiled novel featuring his anti-hero Parker written by Donald E. Westlake as Richard Stark. A very hard-edged roller-coaster ride with cold-blooded disturbingly casual violence. A great book.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/09/richard-starks-point-blank-aka-hunter.html
that never happens in any of the libraries I used 
#HardBoiled 
#ActionMatinee
