RIP Charles Portis. Whom Jochen talked me into reading.

[rich]

yes, 'incompetence porn'! I hear a new season of Fargo is coming which
revolves around the various criminal gangs in Kansas City in the 1950s.
can't wait.

PS: On a personal note I just to have to say I spent some good times in
Hanau in the 1990s and was saddened to hear about the shooting there this
week.

rich

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:24 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Mike Ehrmanntraut is great, of course. I like "competence porn". Would
> "Fargo" then be "incompetence porn"?
>
> Am 20.02.2020 um 21:54 schrieb rich:
> > grand. I need to more writers to make me feel less mean. I cant think of
> > any others
> > There's something about Portis' work which evokes for me what fans of TV
> > character Mike Ehrmantraut would call 'competence porn'. men who knew how
> > to fix things but werent braggy about it
> >
> > rich
>