The Health Spa Of Dr. Caligari is out in Mystery Tribune. This is like an Alfred Hitchcock film starring Marlene Dietrich. Thrill as Marlene Roxx tangles with evil Nazi doctors at a giant, endless health spa by the sea! Click the link to learn more. mysterytribune.com/shop/digital...

I saw The Odyssey. What a gasser! Old Hollywood words of bombast like colossal, spectacular, and amazing are completely appropriate. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. #theodyssey

I review Paul Cain's incredibly hardboiled novel, Fast One: mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/beyond-har... #hardboiled #crimefiction #blackmaskmagazine #greatdepression

Beyond Hardboiled To Downright Bleak

James Cain’s Fast One Pulls No Punches

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Today's Robert Mitchum's birthday, an event with particular resonance for me since he's the main inspiration for Wayne Barry, drug dealer to the stars, the smiling Southern hepcat with black eyes and a massive pompadour. Happy 109th anniversary, everyone! #robertmitchum

I'm fired up to see the Odyssey. To get in the spirit I drew Ajax in the underworld as a lifeless spirit, but still pissed Odysseus cheated him of Achilles's armor. So much so, he refused to speak to Odysseus on his perilous journey to the underworld. #Odyssey #Greekhero #Ajax

I've decided to do food porn con una veramente abbondanza a la italiana: pollo e coniglio cacciatore e pasta con prezzemolo e aglio arrosto. I grilled the meat before cooking it with sauce in the oven. If you've got a grill, I can't recommend this enough. #italiancooking #cacciatore

I review The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, winner of the HWA '26 Best Novel Award: mellonwritesagain.substack.com/p/book-revie... #horror #americanwest #nativeamericans #vampires

Although the meat is unsavory tainted as it is by filthy lucre, there's no end of these vicious little suckers so if you're a fan of fishing with a bow, arrow, and chain, have at it, ye compleat angler! #eyefish #absurd

Myself sporting my new Dirty Martini shirt from the groovy folks at Tombolo with complementary dirty martini in hand. Dig the embroidered olive buttons. Andy Warhol became a model late in life so perhaps this is a path I too should follow in old age.  #tombolo #martini #leisureshirt

Almost finished a new novelette entitled "The Maltese Venus," the third adventure of Wayne Barry, drug dealer to the stars. I see these stories as Robert Mitchum movies with a speculative twist (although one short story, "Rat's Nest," is straight crime fiction). #noir #horror #Mitchum

Cockatrice In Hot Pursuit Of The Bluebird Of Stinkiness

The tenth anniversary issue of Cirsova Magazine is out with a bumper selection of stories to commemorate the auspicious occasion. A Bottle Of Chambertin is my contribution, the sixth of my stories to appear in Cirsova. www.amazon.com/Cirsova-Maga...

Surrealist Sensual Whirlpool #surrealism #doubleentendre

In The Eyes Of The Maelstrom. My advice is don't look back, they'll suck you in.

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A deer caught in the headlights. All the brains of Bertie Wooster with no Jeeves to keep him in line.

True believers, seek relief for your thirst for adventure with another Melkart tale! This time in the Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, one of the longest running sword and sorcery mags, in Melkart And The Monkey Men. #fantasy #swordandsorcery #swordandsandal www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com?p=4579

I drew this picture of Ta Koro the Akan war god to plug my latest Melkart novel, Melkart In The Kingdom Of Gold, a heavily Afrocentric piece with intrepid Phoenician voyagers traveling to what's now called the Bight of Benin in search of reddish gold. #swordandsorcery #melkartthemighty #fantasy

PreColumbian Paranoid Predator: He's got a nasty sting, but has to back into his victim. That makes him jumpy and even more mean. Keep a sharp eye out for him if you're ever down Mexico way. #scorpion #aztec #precolumbian

Dainty dino dining redux. An old drawing found among my stuff after we moved that I'm recycling in hopes of getting a second laugh from those who dig reptilian humor.  #dinosaur #humansasprey #eatenraw

Tre Piatti Alla Cucina Italiana: From bottom to top, Caprese salad (featuring mozzarella made by me con mi due mani), pizza (also made from scratch, natch), and pasta in alfredo sauce with crabmeat. Tutto delizioso! #italiancooking #capresesalad

Melkart And The Witch is in Swords And Sorcery Magazine. Hope Melkart can muster the courage and discipline to resist the supernatural charms of none other than Kirke the supreme sorceress. swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/melkart-and-... #swordandsorcery #heroicfantasy #swordandsandal

An arty, angled shot of today's cooking endeavors. The white lump represents my first attempt at cheesemaking. An actually acceptable mozzarella. Hopefully, I'll improve as I go along. The other dish is a shrimp pizza. Boy, was it good! #pizza #homemadecheese #italiancooking

A fictitious coat of arms. The motto loosely translates as: "It hurts me to hurt you." Also known as the bully's lament. My Latin probably stinks, but so does my art so at least I'm consistent. #coatofarms #latinmotto #battleaxe

Emperor or Archangel? You Decide! Oh, and also by the way, Season's Greetings! #grecoroman #emperor #triumph

The seaward facade of the Hotel Nacional on a very nice November day: #cuba #havana #hotelnacional

The main drag in Vinales, the town with the same name as the valley where it's located. As you can see, life's a bit on the slow side. Note the mountain in the background. #cuba #vinales #mainstreet

Another Cuba picture: me smoking a cigar on the tobacco farm where it was grown and rolled. It doesn't get much better than that. #cuba #tobacco #vinales