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"The more thrilling, wonderful, divine objects I behold in a day, the more expanded and immortal I become." -Thoreau Speaking of thrilling and wonderful objects, take a look at this: Which you can get here (hatchet and knife not included).  Immortality is looking me in the rude eye and I intend to expand. As far as the expansion goes, I fell short of my goal for the week on the sequel, but I did more than double what I had last week. I'm just over 8,500 words in -- so it's ten percent finished; I'm in chapter three. As you can see from the picture, my paperback copy came this week, honestly I set the paper size larger than I intended so the book is a little thinner than I had planned. Rather than change it, I'll make each book in the series that size--and I'm looking for reviews. The ebook is only $0.99. *** On another thrilling front, I dismembered three corpses this week. These three individuals had been hanging around my house for some...

Although this picture of Faye Dunaway and Christopher Lee in  The 4th Musketeer: Milady's Revenge  would be from 1974, it causes me to think of the Bonnie and Clyde movie from 1967 in which she starred with Warren Beatty . The coach in this picture seems to have more headroom than the stolen Ford Deluxe in which Bonnie and Clyde met their demise in May 1934, but the shoulder room looks a little tight. Perhaps those two pistols behind the heads of Milady and Rochefort are what raised that memory of the two young bandits jerking like electrified frogs' legs under a relentless spray of lead which perforated both the Ford and its occupants. I saw that movie as a kid on television many years after its theatrical release; the memory of that scene is still quite vivid. Although I was allowed to watch Bonnie and Clyde on television, I did not get to go to the theater to watch  The Three Musketeers , or The 4th Musketeer ....because...Mom. I suppose the fact that I was less...