What are you reading?
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A Bank Swindler Tries to Cash In
The Confessions of a Bank Swindler Lucius A. Parmelee Waterloo, QC: Duval, 1968 The author begins by boasting that a member of the...
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It's an interesting read. I'm at the point where he is incarcerated at San Quentin (circa 1930) and the cells don't have toilets just a bucket with some lime in it.
I’m on a road trip in the southwest US and picked up a couple of books lying around the house I’ve been meaning to read. The first was Eddie Rickenbacher’s autobiography. The second was the western novel “Shane” on which the movie was based. Great performance by Jack Palance as a cold blooded gun for hire, he was nominated for an Academy Award early in his career (1953?) for that role.
He definitely wasn’t doing the wife in the book or movie. You got the impression that there was an attraction between Shane and the wife in the book though.Great movie and I don’t even like westerns.
Are you sure? Kind of thought it was implied and that's why he leaves in the end.
Positive. In the book Shane is shot in the abdomen in the final gunfight and immediately leaves the barroom to ride off into the sunset. The family didn’t want him to leave but are eternally grateful.Shane is far too virtuous to be banging his buddies wife, although I’m sure it crossed his mind.
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The book that the Netflix flic is based on. Very early on in my reading but sure takes me back to building a Triumph 650 in buddies garage in the 70s and camping trips to Mosport in the 70s.
Brought memories of Copetown races too.
Article is a good read for those that remember.
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You might find this interesting. It’s a National Film Board documentary on Satan’s Choice. Filmed in the east end of Toronto in 1965 I think. They seem like a bunch friendly guys that just liked to drink beer and ride. That changed real quick, I can tell you that by the early 70’s you did not want to mess with those guys.I’ve watched this many times to try to identify the locations in this film but the east end of Toronto bears little resemblance of the city today.Anyway it’s a nice little time capsule of the Toronto that I grew up in.View attachment 72678
The book that the Netflix flic is based on. Very early on in my reading but sure takes me back to building a Triumph 650 in buddies garage in the 70s and camping trips to Mosport in the 70s.
Brought memories of Copetown races too.
Article is a good read for those that remember.
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I was a kid with extended Smith's Falls family in the Choice; they let us hang around and no harm would ever come to us or there'd be war. And I was there as a kid in Prince Edward County when they went to Mercer's house in limousines and signed over their patches to the Hell's Angels (not sure if it was the after-party or the actual deed I interrupted). I had no idea what was going on, just that I wasn't allowed to play with his son that day and there were all these rough looking dudes in suits. Then (30+) years later I read about it the patching over in a long, treed lane in PEC in a book about Mom Boucher and realised that's what I was looking at as a kid... which perfectly described the Mercer's driveway.
FYI I always did wonder why they let the pool go completely green and there was a monster stereo system in that house with virtually no furniture in the two living rooms it had (big house down on Glenora Road). I guess maybe I'm more clued in now as to what might have been going on there ... I also wonder what might have been up in the attic when they blew a whole lot of that mulched newspaper into the ceiling of what should have been a house that already had good insulation... but maybe I'm just being paranoid about that.
Small world.
The Defector
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