- The Last Good Kiss by James Crumely. "When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon."
- The NYer of July 7&14 "Cake sounds good,/and after cake, being older/and missing cake. If the dead/could speak, they'd tell us to start/with the dessert menu. The best thing/about my mother's apple pie:/she was here to make it." ("The Eulogy I Didn't Give (XXXVII)" by Bob Hicok)
- The Wrong Case by James Crumley. First Milo, and my favorite.
- Dancing Bear by James Crumley. Second Milo. "We had been blessed with a long, easy fall for western Montana. The two light snowfalls had melted before noon, and in November we had three weeks of Indian Summer so warm and seductive that even we natives seemed to forget about winter."
- The Mexican Tree Duck Second Sughrue. ("Sugh as in sugar and rue as in rue the day.") "When the 3:12 through freight to Spokane hit the East Meriwether crossing, the engineer touched his horm and released a long, mournful wail into the wet, snowy air of our second early fall storm in western Montana. It sounded a hell of a lot like the first note of a Hank Snow ballad."
- Bordersnakes by James Crumley. Where Milo and Sughrue work together (Milo showed up at the end of Tree Duck.) "Maybe it was the goddamned suit. Tailor-made Italian silk, as light and flimsy as shed snakeskin."
- Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter C. Willet. So... avoid unsaturated fat.
- Silver Surfer: Requiem by JMS & Esad Ribic. There is no definitive SS story because he is by definition peripheral.
- LSH: Teenage Revolution by Waid and Kitson. The premise, of intergalactic teens who are obsessed with mid-20th century pop culture and band together to stick it to the man, is delightfully absurd.
- Secret Wars by Shooter et. al. Doom in this is just great.
- The NYer of 8/4/25. The black/white wealth gap in was 6:1 at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. It is now 6:1, meaning... what exactly?
- NYer of 7/28/25. Head of CIA's office on Soviet analysis, on looming fall of the USSR: "There are not many homes for old wizards of Armageddon."