fpw Wrote:I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.c...1082468265
Richard Kendrick Wrote:[QUOTE=fpw][SIZE=3]I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.c...1082468265
Wow, that guy really likes the book.
Thanks for the tease.
RIK (Adding slowy to his campaign to become a Senior Member like Ken. )
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I'd think twice before modeling myself after the notorious Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Notoriety is good . . . isn't it?Yeah, its like being inFAMOUS!
Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Notoriety is good . . . isn't it?
Ken V.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Shipmate, there's notoriety and then there's notoriety. If I were you, I'd explain to Interpol--again--how the whole plutonium-smuggling thing was just a big misunderstanding.
Ken Valentine Wrote:That was settled long ago. The last problem I had was with England's version of F.A.T.A.S.S.. (Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service.) I was trying to board a plane at Heathrow, and they had a big problem with some tea I was bringing along with me. It was regular Chinese Black Tea, but was of a special cut called "Gunpowder." Eventually, they let me on with the tea -- in a plastic bag -- but they just HAD to confiscate the cardboard package, I mean after all, It said gunpowder on the label, can't let anybody board a plane with anything that says "gun powder" on it, can they?
Ken V.
(This actually did happen last year, exactly as I stated -- just not to me.)
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I'm curious, Ken--do you have a solid reference for the infamous Gunpowder Tea Incident? Somehow, it has the ring of foaflore. But I'm glad the plutonium misunderstanding turned out OK. I told a couple of very serious Feds all I knew about it--you needed the heavy metal as ballast for your yacht, that's all.
Ken Valentine Wrote:For the gunpowder tea incident see:I read about the Gunpowder Tea Massacre incident on the site you mentioned. Good info, thanks.
http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/bb.shtml#042003-1
Read the short article, then click on "Full List" for a detailed account. You might also want to verify the existence of gunpowder tea. Google gunpowder+tea or click on that item in the article.
The keel on my boat weighs three tons, and it's lead with 6% Antimony. If I wanted to make it heavier, I'd use tungsten -- twice the weight of lead and a lot cheaper than Plutonium. The Plutonium is for my time machine.
Ken V.