Fred and Loathing on The Internet

It’s been said before here on the blog that I read these big fat non-fiction books to either learn a great deal about something, or to see some familiar historical characters muck it up in closer detail, or maybe to see them weaved into a greater context. Before reading this book I knew Petain...

It’s not all chit-chat about comic books or old sitcoms here at the fredlambuth.com blog!

This time it will be my thoughts on all +1000 pages of Judgement in Tokyo by Gary J. Bass. A mammoth single volume, published in 2023, dealing with the convening of a court made to find...

We’re back on the X-Men beat. The groups suggested for me on social media I find while scrolling through my feeds keep the X-Men coursing around in my day to day thoughts. Mostly the images. Cool as the X-Men are as secret outsiders fighting for truth and justice, they would be nothing if it was...

I was a victim of circumstance. There was another James Ellroy novel floating around me. One I have had in my possession for years. A novel I have read ten percent of yet never found myself finishing the book. The reason I never found myself ready because I remember that first ten percent of...

The second promised blog post about Marvel Comics X-Men! I don’t mean the on-screen X-Men of the past twenty years. I do not mean the fighting game characters in Capcom’s video games. I also do not mean the 90s Saturday morning cartoon that had a smashingly good sixth season produced this year...

Although it was mentioned in the last blog post that the X-Men stuff would have more than one entry, it will arrive on a later date. Instead, today we will be talking about a volume of the incredibly bombastic writings of James Ellroy; American Tabloid.

Published in the mid 90s. It...