Lemurian Congress

In January I read an extremely positive review of Elizabeth Bowen's short fiction in a 1930s New Yorker magazine. Unable to find any of ...

In the summer of '90 I had an amazing opportunity that I mostly squandered: I spent a few months working at WATFAC , the Waterloo Founda...

The P. Lorillard Company advertised these "little cigars" with an amusing ad campaign. While the name "Between the Acts"...

I love reading yearbooks. They're curious anthropological documents that capture certain elements of a subculture, allowing some degree ...

Some people seem like they're born to scam, even if they don't have to. It's like there's some part of the human brain devot...

Poetess Patience Eden nails it in this May 17, 1930 poem in The New Yorker: "Life's Problems." When I was twenty-three I could...

(See this post for background on what I'm talking about here) Give some creative and intelligent people a framework for creating games,...

Ahh yes, the drama of the depressed bug. I expect this would have happened pretty frequently if insect legs worked that way. (From the May 1...

I'm not just sitting hunkered over the computer with my torn cartilage, rheumatic toes, and carpal tunnel syndrome...no, I'm totally...

I have so many guilty pleasures that I'm in a permanent state of mortification, and one of my pleasures is a good old-fashioned dungeon ...