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Third Times a Charm

With the sudden and disheartening disappearance of newtumbl, I took some time to decide it I really wanted to start a third version of my hardboiled pulp project. After mulling it over for five months, the answer is - what a surprise - yes.

I'll be working to rebuild what was lost on newtumbl and updated images from this post. The rebuild will take time - four years and thousands of posts are gone. But, what the hell. It's only time, right?

Join me, won't you ~ SMB Noir

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From now on, Seattle Mystery Books’ Hardboiled Blog can be found at the newtumbl. It’s new but it is put together by former tumblr folks and aims to be a viable replacement for those who wish to leave what tumblr had become.

As of now, newtumbl is not able to take in the archive that has been built over the years but they plan to be able to. So it is hoped that all that has been in this blog can be and will be available on newtumbl.

If you’re considering moving, check out newtumbl.

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.

James Crumley, “The Last Good Kiss” (via justfilmnoirthings)

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philsp.com

July 1967 issue

John D. MacDonald, “The Last One Left” (Doubleday hc 1967; condensed)

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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007

Goldfinger

Galore.

Honor Blackman, 1964.

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"John Evans" a pseudonym of editor and novelist Howard Browne

Halo for Murder published in hardcover by Bobbs Merrill, 1948

2nd of his 45 novels with Chicago PI Paul Pine

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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Dell10c15 on Flickr.

Red eye

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1951 Paperback Library paperback original

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Pulp covers for Raoul Whitfield’s Green Ice, 1930.

(via Davy Crockett’s Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West: Forgotten Books: GREEN ICE by Raoul Whitfield (1930))

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Book cover for Jim Thompson’s The Nothing Man.

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(via First Edition Covers of Every James Bond Book 1953-1966 « Airows)

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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Ian Fleming. London: Jonathan Cape, (1963). First edition. Original dust jacket.

“The girl looked past him again. Her clenched right hand went up to her mouth. She said something, something Bond couldn’t understand, from behind it. Then a voice from very close behind Bond, said softly, silkily, ‘Don’t move or you get it back of the knee.' “

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Strip for Murder (1955) http://bit.ly/1AAtQQZ

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dispatchesfromthelastoutlaw

original artwork

September 1951 True Crime Cases

Howell Dodd?

Seattle Mystery Bookshop