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thompete6
Apr 12, 20221 min read
PANDEMIC, THEATER OF VIOLENCE
Today's capricious spree in the Brooklyn subway, with its many victims, its smoke-bomb and disappearing perp (along with the two-year...
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thompete6
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Rhodes to Morocco
This new novel of mine (title above) about our sterling character Harrison Rhodes, is out in a few weeks. The same borderline tasteless...
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thompete6
Mar 20, 20221 min read
Hitler, He Only Had One Ball
This just in from Rhodes (to a well-known ditty): Hitler, he only had one ball Goring had two but they were small Himmler was very...
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thompete6
Feb 26, 20221 min read
SPOT OF BOTHER
For reasons that are obscure, the prequel to the Harrison Rhodes trilogy won't be out until November. Sigh. Bughouse Blues, a rousing...
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thompete6
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Still Hell On The Back Wards
Just so you know, my state is running a constant scandal--hits the news about once a week--over the public mental hospital. A facility...
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thompete6
Jan 22, 20221 min read
HELL-IN-A-HANDBASKET
OK, I'm trying here. Really trying. About recent news--about the WRITING. I guess I'm venting (the word makes me uncomfortable--do you...
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thompete6
Jan 8, 20221 min read
BLOWING UP, IN REAL TIME
This just in, from Rhodes, and I DO agree--but he still doesn't say where he IS: "I've long been irked, I admit it, overwrought, in fact,...
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thompete6
Jan 1, 20221 min read
Happy Nude Cheer!
It's supposed to be all NEW, like a beaming baby. But the top stories are still virus, plane cancellations, wildfires and Jan.6. What a...
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thompete6
Dec 22, 20211 min read
Grinching Out
I'm OK, I guess, with the past tense of "grind" being "grinded." As it is now in the sports world. "We grinded it out." I would have...
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thompete6
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Exquisite? Squalid?
If I ask Rhodes where he is I'll get punished with two months of silence. So I'm not doing that. We can only guess. I got an email, some...
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thompete6
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Bit My Head Off
I tried to ask Rhodes something about his past, working in a mental hospital (covered in Bughouse Blues, out soon)--and the stream of...
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thompete6
Dec 1, 20211 min read
We Stagger On
The blog carries on at www.peterthompsonbooks.com #peterthompsonbooks, teetering between mere folly and irretrievable madness, as it...
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thompete6
Nov 27, 20211 min read
Where's Rhodes now?
Looking at that hotly worded email from Rhodes, about the sports pages, it occurs to me he might be in-country! Not in one of those awful...
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thompete6
Nov 24, 20211 min read
Rhodes-to-Hell-blog
Life is like Martin Amis--nasty, British and short. Rhodes once said that. And if you don't know this, I do, having lived over there....
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thompete6
Nov 21, 20211 min read
Grammar Grump
Hardly the style and grammar maven, still the depravity in what passes for newspapers these days has spurred Rhodes to check in: "Look at...
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thompete6
Nov 20, 20211 min read
Rhodes-to-Hell-blog
This is the Harrison Rhodes humor blog, curated by yours truly, fed by his occasional eruptions and reappearances from abroad. It is...
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