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Aftermath of the disaster Picture sourceCurious Expeditions has a good overview of The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, as well as a little on the London Beer Flood of 1814. Highly recommended article and site. (I had previously linked their wonderful post of beautiful libraries) An excerpt from the Wikipedia article which Curious Expeditions […]
I’m not much on academic-type studies, but Brian Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction looks interesting. From the product description: Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our […]
For a different spin on mythology from someone reading The Iliad, check out his Top 5 GILFs (link is dead, but I’ll leave the post here). I’m still laughing at the premise. Thanks to… well, I won’t out you here. Update: I should have added my usual equations on god/human relationships: Male god / female […]
… watching Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady… wow… ahem… OK, back to your regularly scheduled programming…
Your cause of sorrowMust not be measured by his worth, for thenIt hath no end. (Macbeth Act V, Scene 8) Things that could not be known on that wedding day: Franklin Delano Roosevelt would complain of a headache the next day, passing away in nearby Warm Springs, Georgia Victory in Europe was less than a […]
I’m not really sure. But here’s an article I enjoyed: Steeped in Shakespeare “Shakespeare’s plays were ubiquitous in antebellum America. They inhabited the schoolbooks, including Scott’s Lessons in Elocution, which Lincoln read as a boy. Dozens of editions circulated through the states and territories. The plays visited rural and urban stages in scenes and declamatory […]
I apologize for the lack of posting but I haven’t had a chance to read anything in the past month, much less write about it. Home and work are taking up all my time, with no time for anything else. Not to mention lots of turbulence at work (today’s fun is preparing a separation agreement […]
Feel free to skip this…it is essentially me thinking out loud… This blog originally started as a conversational place for personal finance bloggers who liked to read. It floundered quickly for various reasons, not the least because it was everyone’s second or third place to post on top of having to deal with everyday life. […]
While I try to exclude personal items from this site, I did want to pass on a recommendation as well as a tribute. My father passed away last month and, as part of the preparations for the funeral, the minister presiding over it talked quite a bit with the family. Here is an expanded version […]