“This is the shop with the magic devices and legendary weapons for heroes of quests?” “I don’t insist on heroes, sir. Just customers.” “You would give magic weapons to a grim lord of evil?” “No, sir, Sell them.” “Well, that’s your business. Do you have time travel rings?” “Well,Continue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: There and Back Again”
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If You Don’t Ask….
Along about 1904, that is, just before the first Golden Age of postcards, an author published a novel featuring a heroine who was looking for a man. The book gained some notoriety (and sales) because she was not looking for a good husband, a good provider, or a good father for her children. TheContinue reading “If You Don’t Ask….”
Dark History, True Facts, and Mother Goose
I am seeing an uptick in the number of articles the Interwebs has to offer on the True Story Behind various works of literature, and it is obviously time to take advantage of the trend. I shall therefore indulge in a pastime which has obsessed people since the early nineteenth century, and enlighten youContinue reading “Dark History, True Facts, and Mother Goose”
Summers Behind Us
Labor Day no longer means an end to the vacation season, of course. Like wearing white or buying watermelon, vacations are available at any time of year. In fact, we are moving right into the season when the snowbirds will start their annual migration away from snowy parts of the world to those withContinue reading “Summers Behind Us”
FICTION FRIDAY: Holiday Good
“Ah, Heinrich! I’m glad you’ve arrived.” “It sounded urgent, Vincent. You have located your creature?” “The reports must be about him: eight feet tall, wearing a lab coat too small for him, and still dragging one of the electrodes that was attached when he broke out of my lab.” “So weContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Holiday Good”
Dogs By Themselves
If you have been following along, and why would you not, you will recall we have recently looked over the lives of dogs in postcards. We spent one column looking over recent additions to inventory which covered the relation between dogs and their pet humans, and then another on the number one activity ofContinue reading “Dogs By Themselves”
Dogs Resting
One of the things which has aroused distaste among some observers and amused jealousy among others is the things dogs can get away with doing right out there in public. Yes, other domesticated animals do the same things, but few people walk through the streets with their cows or ferrets or reindeer. TheContinue reading “Dogs Resting”
Dogs and Their Pets
As mentioned in our last thrilling episode, I have been checking through the new arrivals to the inventory, looking over the adventures of dogs. Here it was that I discovered the existence of the Bystander Beast, animals whose conduct in a postcard is minor. But there are plenty of postcards where the dog isContinue reading “Dogs and Their Pets”
Bystander Beasts
I was checking through the new inventory, searching for bloggable data and found, as usual, that there are plenty of outhouse cards, fishing cards, and dog cards. What this says about the priorities of our ancestors I am hesitant to declare. In any case, the dogs are busy with all the usual dog activities:Continue reading “Bystander Beasts”
Rolling Right
The question of how to install the roll of toilet paper is, I am told, one of the most hotly-debated questions of the past century or so. Only the fact that the roll takes a while to be used up is apparently the only thing that keeps it from being as large an issueContinue reading “Rolling Right”
