From Pillar to Post

• For his 55th CrimeWAV.com podcast, Seth Harwood has recruited a contingent of contributors to the new, third edition of The Lineup: Poems on Crime. Works by James Sallis, Wallace Stroby, David S. Pointer, David Hernandez, James M. McGowan, Henry Chang, and others are featured. Listen to the episode here.

• Thanks to a lead from Cover Junkie, I just discovered a very entertaining new blog called Dedicated to Ditzy Wallflowers. Pseudonymous proprietor Snidely Whiplash demonstrates a

dexterous hand in Photoshopping hilarious text of his own onto exemplary old book covers and advertisements. Check it out here.

• Since today marks my (wow!) 19th wedding anniversary, the video clip embedded on the left, taken from the classic Flintstones animated TV sitcom series, seems entirely appropriate to include here.

• Who knew this is also National Weed Day? Not me, that’s for sure.

• After posting helpful lists of “Man on the Run Films” in various genre categories and “Man on the Run Films” with urban settings, the Mystery*File blog now offers David Vineyard’s fine rundown of “Couples on the Run Films.” Consider this an opportunity to add to your Netflix list.

• No, Spock, say it isn’t so!

• Disappointed with some of the artwork offered in Vertigo Crime’s line of graphic novels, blogger Dan Wagner of My Life in Crime has put together a list of his favorite crime comic illustrators.

• Production of the 23rd James Bond film, which was originally planned for release later this year or next, has been “suspended ... indefinitely.”

• Bond fans will just have to content themselves with new books about Ian Fleming’s Agent 007 being released soon by DK Publishing.

• Meanwhile, even before its fourth season begins on June 3, USA Network has already ordered two more seasons of the spy action drama Burn Notice, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar.

• A little adult leadership is what the Republican Party needs.

• Actress Barbara Hale is only familiar to me because of her role as secretary Della Street on the long-running TV series Perry Mason and in the Mason teleflicks that followed. I was completely unaware that she was quite the hottie in her younger days.

• Is this really the episode of Dragnet “with the least amount of action”?

• Interviews worth reading: Cullen Gallagher talks with Duane Swierczynski, Philadelphia author of the newly released novel Expiration Date; Julia Buckley grills Chicago writer Michael Harvey about his incorporation of real-life events into his fiction, his almost “sinister vision of the Catholic Church,” and his new book, The Third Rail; Paul D. Brazill interrogates Charlie Williams (Stairway to Hell); and novelist-blogger J. Sydney Jones chats up the very popular Jacqueline Winspear (The Mapping of Love and Death).

• Oh, boy, just what the world really needed: another addition to the Law & Order TV franchise, this one titled Law & Order: Los Angeles. It’s set to debut on NBC in the fall.