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(1) UNCLE HUGO’S WILL CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY. Don Blyly’s How’s Business newsletter invites everyone to mark your calendar -- Uncle Hugo's turns 50 this weekend. Uncle Hugo’s opened for business on March 2, 1974, which makes this coming Saturday our 50th anniversary. Uncle Hugo's 50th Anniversary Sale is Friday, March 1, 2024 through Sunday, March
In the news for the week ending November 10, 2023, are a new song, an old sign, a big tree, and a not-so-small list of books that would make great gifts.
(1) CHENGDU WORLDCON UPDATE. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] What is the Tianwen Program/Award? Right now, this is a bit of an enigma. I stumbled across a link to this Chinese-language news article at the bottom of the article covered in the next item. Here are some extracts via Google Translate (my emphases, I haven't attempted to correct
Detective story, type of popular literature in which a crime is introduced and investigated and the culprit is revealed. The traditional elements of the detective story are: (1) the seemingly perfect crime; (2) the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points; (3) the bungling of dim-witted police; (4) the greater powers of observation and superior mind of the detective; and (5) the startling and unexpected denouement, in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained. Detective stories frequently operate on the principle that superficially convi...
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart Ellery Queen was a treat. It broke the fourth wall with Queen himself talking directly to camera, filled the standard trope of a reveal at the end where all the characters were brought into one place to be confronted by him and you were asked what you thought happened