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A diner booth built at home
The writer
Swartzwelder was one of the show's great writers. His scripts arrived so insane that the staff only had to cut a few of the craziest jokes, and what was left was brilliant. He was much older than the comedy writers around him, with an enormous mustache that made him look like the handsomest policeman of 1890, and he smoked and said little.
He drove the world's biggest Cadillac, a 1956 model, and he was always the last car in the parking lot, grinding the starter while everyone else drove away.
His weekends were a softball catch with his brother in front of their house for a couple of hours, followed by a diner. He told the staff Bush would defeat Clinton in 1992, and while Clinton was in office, he bet everyone that Clinton would be hanged.
His detective novels
Now he writes hard-boiled detective novels and self-publishes them. One is titled The Robot Did It, and one begins with the detective getting punched in the face. In another, a lie detector asks if it hurts, the detective answers yes, a little, and the machine calls him a liar.
Why did California ban restaurant smoking?
California's Assembly Bill 13 extended the state's workplace smoking ban to restaurants starting January 1, 1995. Bars and taverns followed on January 1, 1998. Behind the law was research on secondhand smoke, including a 1992 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that classified it as a known human carcinogen.
How did hard-boiled detective fiction begin?
The style took shape in American pulp magazines of the 1920s, especially Black Mask, which published Dashiell Hammett's stories about a nameless detective called the Continental Op. Hammett had worked as a Pinkerton detective before writing, and his plain, tough prose set the tone. Raymond Chandler followed in the 1930s and introduced Philip Marlowe in his novel The Big Sleep, published in 1939.
Why did 1950s Cadillacs have tail fins?
General Motors design chief Harley Earl added small rear fins to the 1948 Cadillac, taking the idea from the twin tails of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane. Other automakers copied the look, and the fins grew taller each year until they peaked on the 1959 Cadillac. A 1956 Cadillac sat in the middle of that climb, with fins that were visible but far smaller than the 1959 extremes.
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