Mrs. Publicist: Middle of the month, so how about another edition of What’s In A Name, where we discuss a character name from one of your novels. Since Malachi Carter—the jazz trumpeter and mathematician who is also the dad of Esmé, Charlie’s pal—came up recently in a post about A Farewell to Arfs, the next #ChetandBernie novel, how about we do him?
Pete: Sure. First, should we explain for any newcomers that Charlie is Bernie’s son? That Bernie is a detective? That his canine partner, Chet, narrates the stories but is not a talking dog?
Mrs. Pub: I’ve got another call in three minutes.
Pete: Well, Carter is someone who carts people and things around. Carting Esmé around is a big part of his life. So, a little joke on my part. Malachi means messenger from God, and while the message Malachi gives Bernie in the soccer scene isn’t holy, it is important to the case.
Mrs. Pub: Missed that last part. Wonky connection. See you next month, peeps, for another edition of What’s In A Name! And pub date is August 6, so preorder the darn—
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LOL!
Good day to all.
Gee, the Carter part was sorta satisfying but the Malachi part wasn’t at all.
While it is closer to August still not close enough.
But….I still have a lot of yardwork to get done before Summer and August is middle to end of summer so I will have to practice patience.
Maybe I’ll make a cheeseball as it is National Cheeseball day. Also National Banana day and National Crawfish day. Don’t remember. Where there any crawfish in C&B or was that the Bowser and Birdie books?
Over on Jungle Red Writers (another mystery writing blog) they have a long entry specifically on it being National Banana Day. Did you know that bananas are technically classified as berries? I didn’t. And a group of bananas is a “hand” while a single banana is a “finger”.
Group!….WTAFP did youse know that a group of Pugs is called a Grumble??….chuffle!
We thought that’s the noise your stomach makes when it’s had too few or too many hot wings.
I did not know that.
Did you know that figs are a flower.
Cashews are flowers. Technically the seeds of the Cashew flower.
Whoa!…I did not know that!…snort!….Please tell me that Pistachios are really nuts….guffle!
Sorry.
“Pistachios are not true botanical nuts. In fact, they’re the edible seed of the pistachio tree fruit. However, like many other seeds, they’re still considered a nut for culinary purposes, as well as a tree nut among those with allergies.”
WTAFP: How many hands of fingers do youse think we can get in the back of the Franklin-mobile without displacing any Slim Jims?
Pub!…I like that Mrs. Pub…snort!…No time for timewasters that’s for sure…heh!