KISS ME, DEADLY: Mickey Spillane dead at 88

[shereads]

RIP Mike Hammer, private dick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/a...&en=45641259c235d756&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Mr. Spillane referred to his own material as “the chewing gum of American literature”

Gotta love a writer who can say that without apology.

and laughed at the critics. “I’m not writing for the critics,” he said. “I’m writing for the public.” He described himself as a “money writer,” in that “I write when I need money.”

“I have no fans,” he told one interviewer. “You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

It was hot, damn hot. Summer is rough on us guy who wear suits for a living, and even rougher on dames in skirts. But at least nowadays, they can get away without wearing a slip. In fact its even encouraged.

The roughest part of all though, Mick was dead. Mike Hammer was a hero of mine. I read the books, even watched the damn tv show. Mick created the kind of world where you could be a hard boiled tough guy, and still pick up stray puppies. Bourbon and cigarettes were like mother's milk and flowers, and you only stayed with a woman until you solved her problem then left before you broke her heart.

Times change, or so they say, and I guess the last of the gumshoes is gone.

So Long Mick, wherever you are.

 

[shereads]

It was hot, damn hot. Summer is rough on us guy who wear suits for a living, and even rougher on dames in skirts. But at least nowadays, they can get away without wearing a slip. In fact its even encouraged.

The roughest part of all though, Mick was dead. Mike Hammer was a hero of mine. I read the books, even watched the damn tv show. Mick created the kind of world where you could be a hard boiled tough guy, and still pick up stray puppies. Bourbon and cigarettes were like mother's milk and flowers, and you only stayed with a woman until you solved her problem then left before you broke her heart.

Times change, or so they say, and I guess the last of the gumshoes is gone.

So Long Mick, wherever you are.

Here's to gumshoes and the dames who betray them.