Hit List:Antia Blake and Edward Ride Again

Laurell K Hamilton goes old school with Anita Blake in the 20th book in the series.  Hit List is more monster hunting and vampire slaying and a lot less wicked sexual powers and Ardeur induced orgies.  This is a good thing. The story opens up with Anita and Edward investigating a series of murders where weretigers are the victims.  It seems that the Harlequin are following the orders of Marmee Noir and that they are still after Anita. The story takes place far from Jean Claude and Richard and the rest of the cast of thousands that make up Anita’s…

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Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

While doing a bit of ritual cleaning I came across a stack of old LPs.  Double Fantasy was among them.  This is one of a handful of albums I bought new when it came out.  I was never as big a music fan as I could have been.  Oh, I love music, but I tend to love it after it’s been around for a while.  For example, I was really into the Beatles when John Lennon was murdered. Like most Beatles fans, I was never very fond of Yoko Ono.  As far as his Asian women went, I always thought…

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