About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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Soundtracks for suckers
A while back, I listened to the audiobook version of George Pelecanos’ novel King Suckerman, as read by Cary Hite. It’s a story of more-or-less ordinary guys who get themselves drawn into violent criminal melodrama. Good fun. Like many of … Continue reading
The Big Blow
It’s too bad time constraints knocked The Big Blowdown off the reading list. It makes a nice closing book because of the way it connects to so many of the others, from echoing minute details (“The Doc put fire to a … Continue reading