> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tuesday - URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/45495/ - Published: 2018-03-13T06:26:28.000Z - Updated: 2018-03-13T06:26:28.000Z - Author: Eric Scheske - Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk ![misc-rambling-pic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Misc-Rambling-Pic-300x225.jpg) Birthday Rambling ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Happy birthday to me! It's fitting that I share my birthday with heavy-hitter saints whose feast day is today: Gerald of Mayo and Roderic of Spain. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Yeah, I'd never heard of them either. Sigh. Oh well, In lieu thereof, I'll dedicate the rest of my birthday post to substitute saints of the virile sort. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) "While filming Predator, Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1” bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Arnold they measure arms, winner gets a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, as Arnold set this up with the wardrobe department." From Reddit's "Today I Learned" page. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) "Robert Aldrich's 1955 film *Kiss Me Deadly* \[was\] an adaptation of *Kiss Me, Deadly*. Hammer once asserted his authorial rights so aggressively that an entire 50,000 print run of *Kiss Me, Deadly* had to be pulped because on the cover someone had accidentally left the comma out of the title." [Link](https://www.steynonline.com/8512/hammer-and-tongues?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) During my late teens, I went on a Mickey Spillane kick. I can't find the books now, but I know I read *Kiss Me, Deadly* and *I, the Jury*, and greatly enjoyed them. *The Manly Handbook*, incidentally, recommends a few Spillane novels: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/widgets/q.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/e/ir.gif) The Ten Greatest Manly American Books 1\. *I, the Jury*, by Mickey Spillane 2\. *My Gun is Quick*, by Mickey Spillane 3\. *The Virginian*, by Owen Wister 4\. *Death in the Afternoon*, by Ernest Hemingway 5\. *Deliverance*, by James Dickey 6\. *The Big Kill*, by Mickey Spillane 7\. *Will*, by G. Gordon Liddy 8\. *An American Dream*, by Norman Mailer 9\. *Me, Hood*, by Mickey Spillane 10\. *The Girl Hunters*, by Mickey Spi8llane ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Speaking of G. Gordon Liddy (#7 above), anybody remember his radio show? I listened to it all time during its early years. Really enjoyed it. I wonder if he returned to his Catholic faith? I checked the Google Machine briefly, but nothing turned up. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) "Mike Hammer drinks beer instead of cognac because I can't spell cognac." Mickey Spillane. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/widgets/q.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/e/ir.gif) ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Mark Steyn, however, indicates we shouldn't be fooled by Spillane's posing: [He was no hack, not at all](https://www.steynonline.com/8512/hammer-and-tongues?ref=thedailyeudemon.com): > In 1956 a ranking of the all-time bestselling American fiction found that six of the top ten books were by Spillane; a quarter-century later the all-time top fifteen boasted seven of his titles. Sales aside, I disagree with Chandler: I don't think you can love the English language and not love what Mickey Spillane does with it. Once, for a satirical column about the monumental uselessness of the British police, I attempted a Spillane parody based on the whimsical notion of Mike Hammer taking a job with some slothful pen-pushing paperwork-shuffling English constabulary. I discovered, like many would-be parodists (Mordecai Richler, for example, who attempted something similar for a chapter in Solomon Gursky Was Here) that writing Spillane is a lot harder than reading it. He's got so much precision in even the most unimportant sentences.