Lemurian Congress

I have been slogging my way through a giant 1000-page collection of H.P. Lovecraft's better (or at least "more significant") ...

My Canada Day song contribution is one just finished from 2005 called "Think." It really IS sort of appropriate to the day, as it ...

As children, we Canadians are taught a bizarre and shameful footnote to our history: immediately after settling in Newfoundland, our ancesto...

Well Dr. Seuss, I've learned a lot of interesting things by viewing your Flit advertisements, but this one from the June 1, 1929 New Yor...

Every issue of the '20s New Yorker is bound to have a disturbing racial stereotype or two. I don't generally post them because they ...

I've said in the past that I enjoy Lois Long's contributions to the 1920's-era New Yorker, particularly her somewhat acerbic ...

I need to get this off my chest: I just finished reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and I don't have a clue what I s...

During the late '20s jungle documentaries were EXTREMELY popular. Everybody seemed to be making films about stoic Caucasian explorers an...

Maybe this shouldn't shock me -- I tend to move in a very educated, socially-capable, easy-going crowd -- but twice this past week I...

Hmmm. There are a few things to be said about this June 30, 1928 advertisement from The New Yorker. First, there was simply no escaping this...

For a self-proclaimed asexual blog, there's been a whole lot of sex-talk here for the past month. I say this now because, tomorrow night...

Morgan James just emailed me this link -- a sort of "photo caption" contest for people who engage in baby-slash-cat talk -- and y...

Okay, this one isn't as nasty, I can live with it. Be sure to read this post first to understand the context behind this "editoria...

Nothing politicized me more than the 2004/2005 same-sex marriage debates. It wasn't same-sex marriage per se that got me going, it was t...

Update: I can't possibly do this subject justice during breakfast, but this is simply a quick "off the top of my head" writeu...

Police today think they got it tough? "The New West" -- a collection of reports filed by the North-West Mounted Police in 1889 -- ...

This entry was written with a generous amount of "Knock On Wood"-ing. I don't want to jinx my extraordinary good luck. I don...