I take whiskey straight, women curvy and murder in stride

Joined December 2010
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We might have found the only legit use for AI in fiction.
Has anyone written a book yet where they use LLMs to write all the dialog for just one character? Then all the other characters can slowly realize this person doesn't actually know anything, and it turns out they were a fraud the whole time.
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Today’s post is the lovely fashion show sequence from THE WOMEN (‘39)✨ #joancrawford#rosalindrussell#oldhollywood
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Halloween reading..."'FISH' WITH HUMAN HANDS ATTACKED ME!" One of my favorite "true" stories in the CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY: STRANGE AND MYSTERIOUS CREATURES IN MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES, available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and deluxe expanded hardcover editions here->bit.ly/CryptoHC. You can also get the print editions with free shipping via my MensPulpMags.com online bookstore.
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With so much discussion of spy fiction, movies and TV on X it’s odd that the 1983 British TV series REILLY ACE OF SPIES seldom gets a mention. Written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Based on the career of one of the most extraordinary of all real-life spies. Great performance by Sam Neill.
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hearing for the first time that novelist Patrick O'Brian (of _Master & Commander_ fame) invented much of his own biography, didn't know how to sail & had no practical experience doing it, wasn't Anglo-Irish gentry but rather English working class, barely educated, concealed his early marriage... Everything he learned about sailing & the 19th c was from obsessive research & reading books. O'Brian comes out to be a far more puzzling, eccentric, twisted, anachronistic figure who lived in isolation on a small hobby farm in France, deeply secretive, insecure, brooding, exiled, aloof, yet TOTALLY COMMITTED TO THE BIT. I like him even more now (am currently reading Master & Commander)
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Good morning.
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Debra Paget performs "When It's Springtime in New York" from Stars and Stripes Forever (1952). This fictionalised biography of composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa (played by Clifton Webb) gives Paget an invented showgirl character and Robert Wagner her equally fictional love interest. 20th Century Fox clearly thought audiences would enjoy seeing Miss Paget sing and dance (which is true), even if those hoping for more of the real Sousa might find his story somewhat sidelined. After all, this is Hollywood! #StarsAndStripesForever #DebraPaget #JohnPhilipSousa #HollywoodMusical
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Revolt in the Pacifico by Anthony B. Ott, illustrated by Murphy Anderson Fantastic Adventures, January 1950
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"She wore the conventional garb of a woman of the ancient desert dwellers, jewelled copper breast-plates, a circlet of beaten bronze binding her wealth of red-violet hair, her eyes glittering like emerald fire; and the long divided skirt concealed little of her shapely body."👀🫡
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just read... LADY INTO HELL-CAT by Stanley Mullen from PLANET STORIES, Spring 1949 its a "fun" & "pretty good" story abt a Space Patrolman hunting an escaped murderess the worldbuilding is immense and the story is jam packed with action, aliens, revolution, politics, romance
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Have you read John Carter of Mars or Conan?
The Absolute State of Sci-Fi Gaming: • Mass Effect 4 Cancelled • No Hub World Space RPGs in 14 years • Multiple Deus Ex Games Cancelled Excuse me as I stare into an endless abyss: …
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Ed Valigursky cover art for Amazing Science Fiction (May 1959)
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"Cetainly I'm a Mermaid" She flipped her tail to prove it
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A worker at the Barnes & Noble at The Grove in LA told me that Supermax is “our most stolen book.” @HardCaseCrime
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1962 Beacon with a Darcy cover.
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Containing Stories of Adventures on Land, Sea and in the Air. BY "NONAME."
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Joan Lorring #pumpkincheesecake🎃
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❝Critics used the word ‘illustrator’ as a denigrating label. I resented the implied barrier between illustrator and painter. Both should be measured by their competence—not by artificial compartments contrived by critics.❞ —N.C. Wyeth, born on this day, October 22, in 1882
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