Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • The Dodgers, Christian Slater, and Me (2)

    One thing I noticed at the ballgame. Before the gates there are big signs listing all the things you’re prohibited from bringing in. They include alcohol and weapons and there’s a bag search to check for them. As soon as you’re inside, they’ll sell you beer and a baseball bat!

  • The Dodgers, Christian Slater, and Me

    On Sunday I went to my first-ever ball game. The Dodgers vs the Chicago Cubs. Christian Slater was the day’s celebrity first-ball pitcher, and he’d invited the cast and crew of The Forgotten to attend the game as his guests. I dithered a bit, I admit… I’m not really a sports event kinda guy. But…

  • The Autry

    I got to the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park yesterday – looked as if there might not be much to it at first but it was good fun. Like a pocket version of the Cody museum in Wyoming. Even has a Buffalo Bill section, and a series of rooms dedicated…

  • Mystery and Imagination

    In the comments section, Good Dog wrote: …if you’re stuck for something to do next weekend, the Mystery & Imagination Bookshop at 238 N. Brand Blvd in Glendale is having a signing/celebration for Ray Bradbury’s 89th Birthday on Saturday 22nd, August starting at 1:00pm. When I last stopped by (some years back) they were still…

  • New Work, and Some Old Places

    I’m thinking of going to the Gene Autry Western museum in Griffith Park this weekend. See if there’s anything that helps my ideas for the new book. (That’s the new new book; the new book, a big historical in the same vein as The Kingdom of Bones and from the same Random House imprint, is…

  • PS Publishing Summer Sale

    Pete Crowther is currently applying a walloping 60% discount to almost all of his back catalogue titles, which means that the hardcover editions of White Bizango and Out of his Mind can be had for ten quid (or sixteen dollars) each. The indie presses often have to price their titles on the high side to…

  • Callan

    Blog follower dvikib asked this question in the comments to Rockford Redux, and I thought it worth giving some prominence because it’s another opportunity to direct attention to one of the best TV series the UK ever produced: “I envy you that you were able to see the TV version of Callan. Amazon US recently…

  • Rockford Redux

    So here I am, midway through my boxed set of The Rockford Files season two, when I see the news today that David Shore, creator and showrunner of House, is lining up a revival of the show. It’s a task both enviable and unenviable – Rockford is probably the best show of its kind, but…

  • You Don’t Say…

    “But as he came to the door of the salubrious squat close to Guildford dressed as Delores in a blonde wig, sheer black tights, a leopard skin skirt and a cropped top with prosthetic breasts, before explaining that the world as it is known will end on 23 December 2012, it is perhaps clear why…

  • Travelling in Time

    I’m seeing trailers for the new movie The Time Traveller’s Wife (as we’d spell it in the UK), and they’ve reminded me that a while back I did some thinking around the uses of time travel in fiction and on the screen. And what’s a blog for, if not to share? The most obvious form…