Posts Tagged: television series

  • Wile E Coyote in court suing Acme for their product danger --- in the style of Warner Brothers cartoon

    The acme of cartoons

    The origin of acme The word acme means the best or most perfect thing that can exist or be achieved. It is quite an old word, being first used in English in the 1560s for the highest point. It comes from Greek akmē meaning highest point, edge, peak of anything (in English it was written […]

  • Man with smoking old gun in the shadows - we often talk about the "Italian mafia", the "Russian mafia" or the "Japanese mafia". In these usages "mafia" is used to refer generically to secret societies of criminals that operate primarily as private protection firms,

    Mafia – criminal fraternities

    I have been watching a dramatic series on SBS online called Zero Zero Zero. It follows the journey of a cocaine shipment, from the time a cartel of Italian criminals (the mafia) decides to buy it until the cargo is delivered and paid for, passing through its packaging in Mexico and shipment across the Atlantic […]

  • Crime fiction sub-genres - cosy and noir

    How do you like your murder?

    My wife is fan of English murder mysteries and for her birthday recently one of her friends gave her a boxed-set of the first eight seasons of Midsomer Murders.  She was excited, however, the rest of us were not looking forward to the prospect of having to sit through fifty episodes of murder at the village fete. I […]

  • Leavenworth inmate John Russell Willingham register number 27687 from U.S. National Archives not notorious

    Use notorious in a sentence

    Carl Williams, a notorious criminal, has died in prison. Notorious means being famous for a bad quality or deed. It does not mean dangerous, vicious, loathsome, despicable or even heinous.