So … “To Have and Have Not” is not in the public domain?!

It was made in 1944, for God’s sakes.

I’d love to find and share a free link to the whole movie, but MGM still holds the rights?  You have to pay for it over at Amazon.  :-/
 
 
Anyway, I STRONGLY recommend this first (and probably the best) film starring Lauren Bacall.  It’s a classic — based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway and adapted (some say quite liberally) by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman.
 
We’ll always love you, Slim.  Every guy who sees the movie wishes he could be Steve.  But for some reason, I ALWAYS saw myself as Cricket, the piano player.  Never sure why.
 
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So long, Slim.

Goodbye, Lauren Bacall.

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Found on Facebook …

… just some weird stuff.

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And a friend found this at work …

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Carpe diem.

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“Our fearful journey’s done,” Mr. Keating.

And Good Night, Vietnam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuk8AOjGURE

I am a Twit. Follow me.

So I have a Twitter account now: https://twitter.com/ericrnolan1

I am giving up my Tumblr account, because I am pretty sure I am the only one on there.

So “Follow me!” as Johnny Rico so bravely shouted in “Starship Troopers.”   I remain your number one source for poetry, kitten pictures, monsters, dream imagery as deus ex machina, shameless self-promotion, end-of-the-world stories, links to free e-books, and Sarah Palin jokes.

“C’mon you apes!!  You want to live forever?!!”

Bored on a Sunday?  Fancy a poem?

That Nolan guy scribbles ’em.  Go here and get your nerd-verse on: Poetry.

$5 Haircuts in Bay Shore?! Shanty Irish Alert!! (Long Islanders)

So you’re in the Bay Shore area and don’t want to look like a damn hippie.  Neither do you want to spend $22 minimum for a STYLIST (ooh-la-LA).  Canevaro Barber Shop in the Pathmark Shopping Center on 5th Avenue offers $5 haircuts every weelkday, as it employs barbers in training.

Mine turned out fine.  Though any haircut is a pyrhicc victory for me, as it can only further reveal my Giant White Irish Nerd Forehead.

Support a local family business and get your coif on.  Also, please tip well, as the barbers there are actually really good, and they are professionals just starting out, who could probably use the money.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/CANEVARO+BARBERSHOP/@40.721328,-73.253324,14z/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1sbay+shore+new+york+wicks+avenue+barber+shop!3m1!1s0x89e8328cce782e81:0xd0cad9ee5ca80b47

My friend Lynn’s TinyBat looks like my TinyCat!!!

Seriously! Look at the little medieval wing-ed beast she is brandishing, and then compare it with my own Little Ninja.  I don’t care what those sciencey types say — these two are definitely cousins!!

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Care for a free horror e-book? Try “The Carnarvon Creeper.”

The Kindle version of Martin Murphy’s book is available for free, this weekend only:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Carnarvon-Creeper-Martin-Murphy-ebook/dp/B00MHWC9TO/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1407603667&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=carnavon+creeper%2C+by+martin+murphy

Here’s a synopsis: “For decades, during each December, people have been disappearing from the west coast of Australia. The number of missing is mounting, the bodies never recovered, presumed lost amid the vast, unforgiving landscape. A grieving traveller will be dragged into the mystery, before, in the remote outback, he comes face-to-face with a nightmare beyond his worst imaginings…”

Thanks to 4-LAN over at The Book Marketing Network for what sounds like fun opportunity!

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