Random notes: March 5, 2010.

Serdar Argic, call your office, please.

Edited to add: Popehat is on a roll. Go here for more Armenian genocide commentary. Meanwhile, Ken has what I’ll go ahead and call the quote of the day:

Perhaps there is some equivalent in Louisiana law, which is cobbled together from the legal traditions of the French, the Deep South, riverboat gamblers, corrupt cops, bead-and-tit based economies, and people who clean up vomit for a living.

Ah, fair food. (Okay, so technically the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo isn’t a fair. I consider it to be close enough for government work.) Chicken-fried meatballs from the Mandola family.

Edited to add: The HouChron has thown up (and I use “thrown up” in multiple senses of the phrase) a slide show of items being sold at the rodeo. (Warning! Slide show!) By my count, of the 24 distinct items shown, six are “on a stick”. What’s that sound I hear? Oh, that’s my arteries slamming shut.

I was working on a post about this list of the “100 best crime books ever written” but I’m not sure I’m going to go through with it. The general tone of the post came across as kind of dickish and show-offy to me, plus I think The Rap Sheet says all that needs to be said. (Especially Ed Gorman in the comments.)

Instead, have this link to Terry Gross interviewing Henry Scott about his new book: Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential. I picked this up last week and haven’t had a chance to do much more than skim it, but it looks like a rather interesting book. I know at least one of my readers openly doesn’t care about Hollywood, or anything related to Hollywood gossip; even if you’re in the same boat with him, I still think there’s a fascinating aspect to this story. This is the only time in recent history (that I’m aware of; I welcome correction) that a government actually tried to put a magazine out of business through criminal prosecution, merely because some people didn’t like what that magazine was publishing.

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