Sorry, Kevin--didn't mean to hit a sore point! When I think
of northerns, I tend to forget about the Dudley Do-Right
stuff in favor of the northerns written by folk who knew what
they were talking about and weren't afraid to write so, from
Jack London onward.
Btw, the fantasy you have of DC below (incorporating both One
Man Standing Tall and his cell phone), as I think George
Pelecanos can attest, is currently being played out every
week on CBS as THE DISTRICT. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Burton Smith
[mailto:
kvnsmith@colba.net]
It would be almost like Canadians expecting to see slaves
picking cotton in Colorado, or to see the Washington, D.C.
chief of police wearing a big star on his vest and twin Colt
Peacemakers hung low, marching down Main Street alone at high
noon for a showdown with some dangerous desperado. Instead of
just using his cell to call in the SWAT team.
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