One of the things people do not talk about when studying serious history are the little pleasures and customs of life which have faded away. This is left to people who write mere nostalgia: a loving look back on such disappearing pleasures as the key you had to use to open canned meat orContinue reading “Bygone Wishes”
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Swizzle or Swag
I was going to write about something completely different today, but I was transfixed by one of those momentous question which can change a country’s entire culture. You know the sort of thing: the little spur of the moment butterfly cough that can derail whole civilizations and send them spiralling toward doom or greatness.Continue reading “Swizzle or Swag”
The Yocks of Yesteryear
While I am waiting around for customers to make use of my new consulting firm, I would like to establish my claim to be an evaluator of old pop culture things. There must be plenty of people out there whose grandfather left them a stack of old books, or old newspaper clippings, or oldContinue reading “The Yocks of Yesteryear”
Fish Story
Seventy years ago this spring, general Douglas MacArthur made his famous address to Congress, in which he reminded everyone that “Old Soldiers never die. They just fade away.” Though he was not the first to express the thought (it apparently comes from a song parody of around World War I) he made it hisContinue reading “Fish Story”
Go Fourth
If I have scared away my readership with the previous blogs this week, I now have a nice private moment to do something I was fairly certain I would never do. There will thus be no witnesses, giving me plausible deniability if someone says “I saw you were reminiscing about the Fourth of July.”Continue reading “Go Fourth”
Such Is Life
“Mister Farmer! Mister Farmer! How is it that your cow there has no horns?” “Well, Ma’am, cows and their horns are an interesting subject. Sometimes a cow never grows horns at all. The scientists are still working on why: it may be the Good Lord just never meant that cow to have ‘em. Continue reading “Such Is Life”
Four Cheap Old Comic Books III
So It’s taken long enough to get here, and I warned you we won’t be studying the contents of any of them, but I just wanted to let you know what happened when I obtained, and actually read, these four Tijuana Bibles I found online. As a brief recap, and to bore youContinue reading “Four Cheap Old Comic Books III”
Four Cheap Old Comic Books II
As you will recall from our last thrilling episode, I was going to tell you about some wildly collectible comic books I turned up after years of wondering if I would ever own, if temporarily, any comic books people were thirsting for. Then I got bogged down in discussing the theory of collecting things,Continue reading “Four Cheap Old Comic Books II”
Four Cheap Old Comic Books
The time to get into collecting anything is before anybody else thinks of it. If you wait until the market is established, rarities agreed upon, and prices set, you will look in vain for legendary items and have to settle for lesser choices. Do keep in mind, as you look over that lastContinue reading “Four Cheap Old Comic Books”
Travelogue
So it says here that Graustark is bordered by Axphain to the north and Dawsbergen on the south. I see no reason to doubt this. This does not, however, explain its general proximity to Ruritania, which is somewhere near Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). The two tiny countries have so much in common that theyContinue reading “Travelogue”
Blogsy Babbles 