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Le Scat Noir has resumed publication at a new URL: www.scatnoir.blogspot.com Check it out and enter your email address  for a FREE subscription. Posted on February 14, 2012 at 5:09 pm in art , Editors' Choice , Lit   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: news Read Full Story

From Paris with love. AND… this from artist Gail Schneider : AND… these chocolate air stamps ( LINK via artist  Darlene Altschul) Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:52 am in Eros   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: beauty Read Full Story

Cover by Norman Conquest Diptych #4 (2006) by Jim McMenamin & Norman Conquest [Click on image for larger view} Posted on February 13, 2012 at 4:52 pm in art   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: art. nostalgia Read Full Story

Courtesy of a private collection. Click on the  image for a larger view. ADDENDUM And speaking of threesomes… let’s turn from art nostalgia to Lit nostalgia. No, it’s not a mystery but it was written by the Grand Master himself— Lawrence Block— under the penname Jill Emerson . The paperback was published in 1970 and is long out of print, but it’s available in a Kindle edition here .  I haven’t read it yet, but you can bet I will. Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:55 pm... Read Full Story

you say toe_MAY-tuh and I say toe-MAH-tuh… Alright that’s enough singing for today, except to sing the praises of some favorite reference books—most of which are missing from my shelves. Many  useful  tomes have disappeared over the years due to multiple moves back and forth across the country; yard sales; natural disintegration; and “Where the hell did I put that book?” I still possess THE BIG BOOK OF BEASTLY MISPRONUNCIATIONS: THE COMPLETE OPINIONATED GUIDE FOR THE CAREFUL SPEAKER by... Read Full Story

We’ll be testing the Ricoh GXR A16 for a review in the spring. It’s the fifth  in their GXR interchangeable camera system—24-85mm F3.5-5.5, APS-C size CMOS sensor. 16MP. Rumored to have a Sony sensor, so image quality expectations are sky-high. Stay tuned. Advertisement Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:17 am in cameras   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags... Read Full Story

It all made sense when I learned that the Super Bowl Halftime extravaganza was designed and choreographed by Donald Trump . The Romanesque musical “Vogue”—based on a dream—  is headed for a run in Vegas prior to opening on Broadway in the fall. Break a leg, Madonna ! Advertisement Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:39 am in Uncategorized   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: Madonna... Read Full Story

P.G. Sturges will be reading from his new novel, Tribulations of the Shortcut Man at Book Soup in West Hollywood on February 16th at 7:00PM. If you’re in town don’t miss this rare appearance. If you’re out of town take a shortcut back. Advertisement Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:49 pm in Books , Noir / Mysteries   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: news , Noir... Read Full Story

If I were a betting man… I guess you know what I’d do. Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:56 pm in Uncategorized   |   RSS feed You can trackback from your own site. Tags: blab Read Full Story

Henry Miller was a big influence back when I was banging on an Olivetti. The man spewed pure spirit and humanist life-lust. Tropic of Cancer was an autobiographical  novel Miller spun in his head while wandering the streets of Brooklyn. Even before he’d written a word he was a writer.  When he finally produced Tropic   in Paris it wasn’t just controversial—the book was banned. There’s a lot of rich lit-history surrounding it and I’m looking forward to reading Frederick Turner ’s new book... Read Full Story