I've seen so little (ie. none at all) mention of Smith that I was beginning to to wonder if I had imagined that show. I thought it was shaping up well…and then the bastards killed it. I never understood that.

As far as I can tell from those LRB letters (thanks for the link, by the way) nobody seems to accurately place it at any time before Thesiger.

Then doubtless you'll have sources to cite and link to? Because despite a reasonable familiarity with British military history, over the last 50 years, I've only ever heard that story told about Thesiger.

Ernest Thesiger was the cousin of Wilfred Thesiger, the great explorer and the first non-bedouin to cross the Rub Al-Khali (The Empty Quarter) of Arabia.

I never watched Miami Vice so to me, Johnson will always be the kid in L.Q. Jones' take on  Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog.

I'd forgotten all about Lowe until his hilarious performance as a drug-addled plastic surgeon in Behind The Candelabra.

Astral Weeks, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

I'm sure that if
I took just one sniff
It would bore me terrif
-ically too,
But I get a kick out of joo - Al Pacino in Scarface

I've got a dog and cats….this information just makes me like him more.

…or bowling.

Love that film. With a fantastic soundtrack by Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker. What the fuck's not to love?

Speaking out against the unspeakable horror of a woman, y'know…talking about stuff and being actually very likeable…dude…I salute your courage.

My (admittedly nebulous) understanding was that he imported leather jackets from Korea and made a fortune.

hahaha…what a great story!

X the Anonymous Man or Woman are bear knuckles the ones with 6 inch claws? That O'Neal…he's a fucking animal.

Hahahaha…It seems to me like you're the eggspurt, uselessbeauty.

Welding inevitably leads to serial killing: fact.

I was under the impression that Mary-Louise Parker is dying of internet-related cruelty…or has Sean O'Neal been lying to us?

Leonard, Willeford, James Lee Burke, Ferrigno, Crais, Dorsey, Crumley, Alan Furst…anything but Dan Fucking Brown.

Hahahahahaha…(continues to laugh inappropriately* until brought down by a dart gun).