On this day in movie history - The Mist (2007)

The Mist

directed and written by Frank Darabont,

based on the novella by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on November 12, 2007.

Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Sternhagen, Nathan Gamble, Alexa Davalos, Chris Owen, Sam Witwer, Robert C. Treveiler, David Jensen, Melissa McBride, Andy Stahl, Buck Taylor, Brandon O'Dell, Jackson Hurst, Brian Libby, Susan Malerstein-Watkins, Mathew Greer, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Walter Fauntleroy, Amin Joseph, Kelly Collins Lintz, Ginnie Randall, Tiffany Morgan, Kim Wall, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Ron Clinton Smith, Gregg Brazzel, Sonny Franks, Dodie Brown, Taylor E. Brown, Jay Amor, Kristin Barnhart, Kevin Beard, Derek Cox-Berg, Kip Cummings, John F. Daniel, Tammy Eaton, Ron Fagan, Ted Ferguson, Travis Fontenot, Cherie Gierhart, Louis Herthum, Walt Hollis, Brian Scott Hunt, R. Todd Jones, Jimmy Lee Jr., Cherami Leigh, Mike Martindale, Cindy McBride, Eric Kelly McFarland, Amy McGee-Harrell, Ritchie Montgomery, Michaela Morgan, Darrick Mosley, James Paul, Mark Robin Price, Charles Sutherland, Chuck Vail, Steven E. Williams.

On this day in music history - The album box set 1970 - 1987, by Ry Cooder (2013)

1970 - 1987

by Ry Cooder

was released on November 12, 2013.

On this day in music history - The album Arnulfo, by Laura Sullivan (2020)

Arnulfo

by Laura Sullivan

was released on November 12, 2020.

On this day in music history - The album Heavenly Voices, by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2021)

Heavenly Voices

by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel

was released on November 12, 2021.

Veterans Day:

In honor of all who serve, and all who have served.

We will never forget.

Photograph of Sgt. George R. Kost, shown in LIFE magazine.

December 25, 1944.

Volume 17, Number 26.

Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Laini Taylor, on writing and reading:

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough.

It does not, for example, contain dragons.

I find this unsatisfactory.

So I read.

And I write.

- Laini Taylor.

Recommended reading - The Blue Knight

 

The Blue Knight

by Joseph Wambaugh.
 
First published 1972.
Published by Grand Central Publishing.
Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0446509191
ISBN-13: 978-0446509190
 
Description:
 

Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his best – a tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life.

 

The Blue Knight.
 

Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in armor – they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips, and the hard respect a man can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a good woman waiting for him, a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and a tragedy looming, Bumper Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare him: the demons that he's been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...

 

“Marvelous … realistic, frightening, touching in its humanity. – Detroit Free Press.
 
“An extraordinary piece of craftsmanship.” – Los Angeles Times.