remembering Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer by Dayve

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remembering Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:31
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:33 AM

Mickey Spillane 1918-2006

i read all the stuff you wrote Mick - you were an alright guy - smoke em if you got em boys, the king is dead....

from The Body Lovers

He stood with his back angled to the wall. To an indifferent observer he was simply in idle conversation, but it wasn't like that at all. This was an instinctive gesture of survival, being in constant readiness for an attack. His head didn't turn and his eyes didn't seem to move, but I knew he saw us. I could feel the hackles on the back of my neck stiffening and I knew he felt the same way.
          Dog was meeting dog. Nobody knew it but the dogs and they weren't telling.
          He was bigger than I thought. The suggestion of power I had seen in his photographs was for real. When he moved it was with the ponderous grace of some jungle animal, dangerously deceptive, because he could move a lot faster if he had to.
          When we were ten feet away he pretended to see us for the first time and a wave of charm washed the cautious expression from his face and he stepped out to greet Dulcie with outstretched hand.
          But it wasn't her he was seeing. It was me he was watching. I was one of his own kind. I couldn't be faked out and wasn't leashed by the proprieties of society. I could lash out and kill as fast as he could and of all the people in the room, I was the potential threat. I knew what he felt because I felt the same way myself.

"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:48 AM

GIXXER

He owns The Benchmark.

If you ever need to check if anything might be badassed, lean it against "Kiss Me Deadly" and see if it stacks up.

(from IMDb)
The Kefauver Commission, a federal unit dedicated to investigating corrupting influences in the 1950s, singled this (film) out as 1955's number one menace to American youth.

Well worth a round of applause.

G

Velda: Christina Georgina Rossetti. Poetess, English, born 1830, died 1894. Your Christina was being held in that hospital for interrogation... What's the point of all this, if it's any of my business?
Mike Hammer: She told me if I dropped her off at the bus station, I could forget her. But if she didn't make it, she said, "Remember me."
Velda: So, remember her. She's dead. But I'm not dead. Hey, remember me?
Mike Hammer: Yeah. I remember you from somewhere.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:48 AM

DAYVE

Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Robert E. Howard, Lovecraft, P.K. Dick, Bradbury and even Louis L'Amour.... all great pulp fiction writers - i've burned through so many of these pulps over the years i can't remember them all - but Spillane and Thompson were real favorites.... i think i'll start over....

"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:31 AM

KANEMAN

Mike Hammer? I had no idea Spillane did pornos

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