Lemurian Congress

Let's have a quilting party tonight in our cute quilted robes from Best's! Pajama parties after ten will soon be known as quilting p...

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

Melon fetishists like their ellipses, but HAND fetishists go for double-barrel adjectives: How do these gay, clever women keep their busy ca...

A person who collects "gimcracks" is NOT a person who collects the bones of 18th century race horses . Nope, that person has an af...

I'm continuing my survey of early New Yorker advertisements with this one from Watson Stabilators. I'm not sure exactly what a ...

Considering the revived (and generally posthumous) fame that sideshow freaks achieved during the grungy Jim Rose '90s, it's surprisi...

The August 30, 1927 New Yorker is trying to convince me that the term "buff" -- as in "enthusiast" -- came about in 1865...

What's a "potboiler" and why's it called that? Think about it for a second and I'll give you the answers at the end of...

As part of my personal mission to learn more about the country I live in (and to have fun doing it), I'm reading a fascinating book call...

Quoits : A lawn game where you throw a ring (the "quoit") over a peg (the "hob"). Similar to horseshoes. Spats : A sort ...