I only knew Belzer from his writing of conspiracy theories including Hit List (JFK witness deaths and other topics) and Dead Wrong. I recently learned he wrote crime novels.
Since I never watched TV from about 1990-last year when my wife died (so it’s too grimly quiet without something TV or radio) I missed his shows but then I watched dozens of the old Law and Order and others. All crime or related.
Watched Homicide: Life On the Streets as well as the other use of the same Detective Munch character on L&O.
Here’s a joke he told: “You know what happens when you run a country song backwards? You get your house again, your wife returns to you and your dog comes back.”
May he rest in peace.
Lol! It’s true, at least of the traditional kind of country music.
Most old Southern Blues songs are also quite formulaic and template like, down to the 4/4 beats before the bridge or chorus.