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Showing posts with label Travis McGee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travis McGee. Show all posts
May 25, 2015

A Travis McGee bonus: Little Doll

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For those of you who, like me,  had never seen this picture. John D.and Dorothy.
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Feb 17, 2014

Vote Vet

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I always miss Travis McGee but especially so when I want to sort out some newish thing. Of course, to miss Trav is also to miss Meyer, the...
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Aug 10, 2013

Travis McGee is sad

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He mentioned her more than once. She got him through one lonely night aboard The Busted Flush,  balladeering in Spanish with Trio Los Pancho...
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Feb 21, 2013

Sexy me

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Some childhood values linger into the mature years. A three-year-old with a cut finger will tour the neighborhood showing off his bandage. ...
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Jan 11, 2013

Travis McGee, economist

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I can't recall which adventure, but in one of them Travis and Meyer have rescued a beautiful young widow from villainous clutches and re...
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Feb 21, 2012

Learning Politics with Travis McGee

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Our friend John D. MacDonald pauses in his narrative of the search for Bix Bowie's fate in the Oaxacan highlands. Travis and Meyer are i...
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Jul 20, 2011

Poor Sean Hoare

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The world media tread lightly on the mysterious death of Sean Hoare, the whistle blower who brought down the News of the World  and put Rupe...
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May 6, 2011

..fish nor fowl nor good red herring; the .22 long

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We didn't know anything about ballistics. We just knew .22 longs were a dime a box cheaper than .22 long rifles. Shorts were cheaper yet...
Apr 30, 2011

Travis McGee, depressed

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Meyer has just returned to Bahia Mar from a conference of economists. Travis welcomes him aboard the Busted Flush with bourbon and ice, one...
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Mar 2, 2011

Jane Russell addenda

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(1) -- A yen to spend your quarter on a Jane Russell movie occurred after one of those frightening life changes that affect boys in about th...
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Feb 18, 2011

McGee in the Morning

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Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism — all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary p...
Jan 30, 2011

Yes, Travis McGee was that good

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And we have it on excellent authority, courtesy of the Harvard Business School Alumni Review.  It offers a letter to John. D. from an admire...
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Oct 27, 2010

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The Green Ripper  McGee has lost both Greta and his own confidence in his feelings: " We are all at the mercy of the script writers...
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Sep 27, 2010

Smashing the Cities

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A reader commented on the previous post, McGee Speaks : Should we be stocking up on supplies before you start smashing, or is this just a...
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Sep 26, 2010

McGee speaks

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"I remember one of Meyer's concepts about cultural resiliency. In the third world , the village of one thousand can provide itself ...
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Aug 25, 2010

Root Hog or Die

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Most of us, even my fellow raving libertarians, are somewhat more compassionate than that toward  unfortunate people -- at least the poor wh...
Jun 30, 2010

The Lonely Sliver Rain

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'Too many had gone away and too many had died. Without realizing it, it had happened so slowly, I had moved a generation away from the b...
Apr 3, 2010

Oliver Stone, Leonard DiCaprio, and Travis McGee

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I may be a little late to this party, but the entertainment reporters are saying Stone may direct " The Deep Blue Good Bye " whic...
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Feb 24, 2010

Penis Pants

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Things you learn from opening links on Facebook . Travis McGee once remarked in a discussion of mortality something very close to, "Ev...
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Dec 22, 2009

Flying home for Christmas?

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Travis McGee on a winter flight to O'Hare : Passengers reached up and put their lights on. The sky had lumps and holes in it. It become...