WKRLEM: The best adaptation of a fictional detective ever!

Here we learn about the 21 foot rule from one of the Crowes.

That is a good man with a knife can kill a man with a holstered gun before he shoots if he is within 21 feet.

Somehow it never works out for the Crowes.

It's not so bad

 

I started watching Season Seven of Bosch on Amazon Prime. I know some of youse guys don't like it but it seems fine to me. There was a couple of shoot outs and a murder and a lot of political skullduggery that is common in noir fiction. It actually takes the plots of a couple of the novels.

It is not an easy task to write good crime fiction or then translate it to TV. You need to have a basis in character but not over do it. We are familiar enough with the characters to short hand it and this series seems to be a direct call back to all of the prior seasons. That's why so many old characters are called back and make brief appearances.

I have to say this is the second best portrayal of a fictional detective in history. The first of course being Raylan Givens in Justified. They got the tone right. A little too stoic. Relying on the sad jazz music a little too much. But Connolly does the same thing in his books so we have nothing to complain about.

In fact there is little to complain about in the Bosch season. If only episodic TV could be half as good. I mean they could do it. They would just have to adapt the works of some of the great crime novelists that are working today. The wealth of detail that is available to adapt will negate the fact that most TV writers are worthless hacks.

I know that the series is going to continue on IMBD at a lower level of production. I think that means that they will get rid of some of the more expensive actors like J Edgar and the Lieutenant. The word is that they will focus on the books where Bosch is off the cops and working private with an emphasis on Bosch, his daughter and Honey the lawyer. It will be very interesting to see what they come up with.

I did enjoy the season.

WLEM TV

 

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Can Of Cheese for Hunter said...

It is an old song. it's raunchy - but tame, with today's debased standards.

WKRLEM: I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall

That's our motto at Lem's Levity!

They are remaking Sex in the City

 

In this episode Sara Jessica Parker gets married to the guy from Fantasy Island. Which is very interesting because he is dead.

They must use CGI or something like that there.

The Case of the Holiday Horror

 My dear Holmes,

It is your most humble petitioner, Inspector Lestrade. As you well know it has been many years since I have last requested your assistance in the troubling matter of the disappearance of Lord Douchebag and also quite some time since we examined the obscene affairs of the odious Lady Chatterley and her grass stained lover. Today I must ask for assistance with respect to these horrible people.

As you know we often review old case files in an attempt to discern if circumstances have changed or new information has come to light. It seems that things have changed in the loathsome prescient of that disreputable slattern Lady Chatterley and her brutish consort. 

 

As you must be aware they had ceased holding the salon for which they had so unjustly been renowned. They seem to have thrown out the obsequious lickspittles and unctuous toadies that made up their circle. It seems once they were left to their own devices they have turned the violence they once did to civilized discourse upon each other. All of which seems to have come to a head when the last cask of fetid wine had been broken and there was nothing for the swinish lady of the house to consume. In fact if you can credit it the wine was purveyed in a box in stead of good English Oak!  She thus turned her wrath upon her unfortunate consort who left to find solace in any way he could. As you know this scene is often reenacted on Holidays when they are left to their own putrid company. This is not the first time this unfortunate occurrence has become part of the police blotter.

It seems that the unfortunate knave who serves as body servant, gardener and barber to the surly harridan decided to flee and eventually wandered into a tavern along the way and fell into conflict with the happy patrons who were well unaware of his existence. He began a contrempt's with a jolly fat man who was regaling the tap room with witticisms and a stoic carpenter who was instructing the room about various insect infestations when the beaten down body servant came in to cause a most unnecessary conflict. Luckily he was tossed outside by the tavern occupants and conspired to wander aimlessly about looking for solace in his life of abject misery.

There is naught for either of us to do but I thought you might like to be informed of the status of these  nefarious people as you wished to hear about the flea infestation of the Hound of the Baskervilles and the cheese addiction of the Giant Rat of Sumatra. In any event I thought it best to keep you apprised of the latest doings in good time.

Please give my best to your brother Mycroft who I hope is enjoying his retirement from the Foreign Office. I know he misses both the Foreign Office and the Foreign Orifices he came in contact with during his time in government. I trust he knows that a quiet life in retirement is the best outcome considering his last exploits when last in London. None the less please give him my regards. 

I remain as always,
Your obedient servant,
Inspector G. Lestrade
November 12, 1898

KLEM- Baby got Bach

I love High End Culture.

So to speak.

These assholes are lucky that I don’t want to give up my amateur status

A fry of ours is a cheerleader for the Brooklyn Cyclones wher they are having the contest.

She is one of the girls standing behind the contestants counting how many dogs they ate. They call themselves the “Bunnettes!”

Happy Birthday America!

Happy Birthday Boss…..True Yankee fans really miss you

If the Boss had been alive the Yankees would never have allowed that Black Lives Matter bullshit at their games.

John D MacDonald was way ahead of his time

 

 

It is especially chilling when a work of fiction predicts real live happenings It happened for me when Tom Clancy predicted a suicide bomber flying a plane into the US Capital in one of his Jack Ryan books. Long before 911 Clancy laid it out and the Muslim mutts just followed his ten plate. When the planes hit the towers I had an eerie sense of deja vu. 

The same thing happened with the recent condo collapse in Miami. One of my favorite authors of the seventies was John D. MacDonald. I always ran out and got every one of his Travis McGee novels as soon as it came out. He is one of my heroes and models in writing crime fiction and I have read just about everything he has ever written as I have done with Elmore Leonard, Robert B. Parker and Lawrence Block. One of his non McGee books also became a best seller. It was called "Condominium" and was about the collapse of a condo in Florida. Albeit it was during a hurricane, still the shoddy workmanship and the criminal malfeasance seems to have predicted what happened in Miami. I remember when it came out and all of the builders in Florida swore up and down that they complied with all the codes and what not. There was a minor scandal here and there but it all went back to normal. I wonder if they examine the structure and what went on if they will find what I think they will find. 

Once again life follows art.

WKRLEM: Coming soon....."THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK "

Should be out in September. 

Comments... I get comments

 

 

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Dave Begley writes:

I don't understand why you didn't avail yourself of my invitation to visit me during the college world series. As I told you I have bunk beds set up in my Mom's basement and one of them is unoccupied. I know you would have a great time if you would just travel just a little. I promise not to wear shorts or serve egg salad. In fact I have a furry rabbit costume that I would wear the whole time and some bologna and cheese sandwiches that are not too moldy.

Please let me know when you are on the road. ( ok, ok you can bring the gardener but he has to sleep outside in the shed)