Arcata Eye.Arcata Eye PO Box 451, Arcata, CA 95521-0451 www.arcataeye.com Crime logs: you may have them in your own local paper, often buried towards the back pages and dutifully du·ti·ful adj. 1. Careful to fulfill obligations. 2. Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation. du recounting all reported crimes from stick-ups to graffiti and drunks. Well, there's more to it than simple narration of criminals and victims, especially if the "Arcata Eye" and Kevin L. Hoover are involved. The Police Log (0974766208, $12.95), taken from the pages of the Arcata Eye, adds an extra dose of insight to reports: "Imagine the creep-out factor: a resident of the 1600 block of 11th Street went out to her car and found the door opened and the inside rummaged through. What scaly scal·y adj. 1. Covered or partially covered with scales. 2. Shedding scales or flakes; flaking. scaly skin condition characterized by scales; scalelike. , wraithlike Adj. 1. wraithlike - lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" shadowy hands had passed over her stuff?" Arranged by type of crime reported, from 'Critters' to 'Love', The Police Log alternate poignant observation with laughs. Want more? Then his Police Log Ii: The Nimrod Nimrod, in the Bible, descendant of Cush who is recorded as a mighty hunter. Nimrod Biblical hunter of great prowess. [O.T.: Genesis 10:9; Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Hunting Imbroglios (0974766216, $16.95) is the item of choice, providing even more laughs and oddities from the small California town of Arcata's police logs. It's an offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. brand of media humor evident in these wonderfully refreshing slices of honesty from the police logs of life, and you don't have to be from Arcata to get the jokes, either. |
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