Blood at the Source: Research Tips for Mystery Writers http://www.barbarafister.com//BloodattheSource.html Librarian Barbara Fister takes writers by the hand and teaches them how to get the most out of their libraries and librarians as well as the internet and field experience. You don't need to be a mystery writer to find this useful. If you haven't wandered into a modern library lately, you are missing out. Libraries have changed radically over the past decade and are an invaluable source of information for writers and researchers. The Internet does not have all information (nor particularly correct information), no matter what the myth is. Anyway, FYI if you are interested.

Thanks.. this is the second lead you have given me on my infinite quest for information. First the wombats..now blood... :) Thanks for your suggestions.

I'm glad you found it useful. Wasn't sure anyone really was all that interested but it's worth it to me if one person is. :)

I am fanatical about knowing stuff.. geesh if I only knew a few things myself.. or .. could recall one or two things now and then. I have enjoyed the obscure facts that I have disscoverd on the wombat site. Had no clue such a site was even out there until your post.

It's a secret of the sacred order of librarians. don't let them know I told you...they don't know they've been infiltrated by a non-librarian. ;)

lol... I will dissavow any knowledge of this mission impossible team (and or site) if I should be captured

If you're really good, I'll teach you the secret handshake. That gets you into the inner vaults of knowledge. Dangerous stuff hidden there. Information. They have...information!

hmmm.. this makes me want to say ... hey rocky... watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat. don't ask me why...

Just call me Natasha.

ah.. another graduate from WMU ( wattsa matta U )... such a grand school

I had a duck named Dudley Doright (actually, because he was one heck of a mean duck, his full name was Deadly Dudly Doright). Loved that show. Especially the fractured fairy tales. The good ole days!

Yes.. my kids think I am crazy when I talk about them. Seems they are more into Dragon BallZ...not sure I understand that one at all

There is no understanding Dragon BallZ, as far as I can tell. Animae is kind of cool looking but the storylines are a mess. Not like Rocky and Bullwinkle! It was the one show my brother and I could agree on. "Not that sleeve...the other sleeve!" And Mr. Know-It-All...I guess I wanted a dog like Mr. Know-It-All and thus became a librarian want-to-be.

LOL.. wasnt the dog Mister Peabody ?

Oh, yeah. He was Mister Peabody. But he was a Know-It-All. How could I forget that? Mister Peabody and boy Sherman. Gads. Too funny.

Attached Link: http://www.stevens-tech.edu/~dbelson/bullwinkle.html

Ok..think we are both telling far to much about our age with this string

That's great! Thank you. I've got to print that out for my brother. He's a member of the fan club! I'm not old. I'm vintage. :) And you probably saw the series in repeats, right?

uhmmm.. yeah.. yeah ..thats the ticket.. it was repeats.. I saw them all as repeats.

Don't forget Fractured Fables! I'm pretty sure Mr Know-It-All was Bullwinkle. Rocky would always come out and introduce him and Bullwinkle would nearly kill himself demonstrating some ludicrous "fact." Mr. Peabody and his faithful human Sherman were involved with the Wayback machine. And I did see them as repeats only. Sorry y'all! ;-)

You're right. I guess I was thinking Mr. Peabody was Mr. Know It All because he was a know it all. Can't believe I forgot that! Sigh. I don't think any any other half hour show managed to stuff so much into 30 minutes until the Muppets appeared years later...and they weren't nearly as sly with their humor.

So true... never has another managed to capture the same level of humor. Hmmmm.. sounds like crescent is bragging about her youth.. wonder if she has ever seen the samurai delicatessan.. or maybe the killer christmas trees.. or .. perhaps the land shark. If not.... to quote the immortal rosan rosanaa danna ... "Never mind".

I was allowed to stay up and see those! Yes, I vaguely remember the floor polish that also makes a great non-dairy desert topping, I do know who Father Sarducci is, I have to explain to some of my coworkers the significance of "Candy Gram," and I did see the episode that launched the phrase, "Get a life!" And wasn't it Emily Latella that always said, "Never mind!" (Of all the facts to fill my head, these are the ones I kept!)

LOL .. how far we have strayed from the original post. I am sticking to my original statement about the never mind. Pretty sure it was Gilda Radner ..as Rosann Rosanna Danna.. after going off on a tangent during the weekend news skit.

Oh, dear, I didn't have to get permission to stay up and see "Saturday Night Live"....how old am I feeling right now!!! But I can tell you right now, I wouldn't use the Way Back Machine to return to the good old days. One time through is quite enough, thank you. The memories are fortuantely edited What was the original topic...oh, yeah. Resources for mystery writers. I think some free flowing associations kicked in. ;)

Hmmm.. some free flowing something .. for sure... I will not speculate as to what. 8c)

I had a male friend with whom I'd have dinner with once in a great while, and I was complaining to him bitterly about how long it had been that I'd had a date. "Well, what is this?" he asked, "if it isn't a date?" I said, "This is free flowing socialization. Not a date." It seems that free flowing associations work fine in this case. :) But isn't that how conversations in real life go? When we write, we can make sure everyone stays on topic (if we choose) but in reality, we flow off into interesting detours. If you write a conversation, you want it to seem (perhaps) realistic but you really want it to contribute to the story, which is an artificial restraint. Especially in a mystery, where each conversation should contribute toward the solution, no matter how trivial it seems. Now, see, there is always a way to curve a conversation back to the topic. At least when you're writing. :)