Canton, Ohio Road Trip: Part 2
The second day of our weekend road trip to Canton, Ohio contained planes, Presidents, and First Ladies. That’s because in addition to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton and …
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Canton, Ohio Road Trip: Part 1
You might ask: why would I time and money on a road trip from New England to Canton, Ohio? Sports fans will know the obvious answer: The Pro Football Hall …
Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …
Honor is much overrated
(Another repost from my own blog because I can’t seem to find time for anything more). Some years back, I read a quote from Lois McMaster Bujold that said “Guard …
A little thing that drives me nuts
So I just finished Jane Yolen and Adam Semple’s The Last Tsar’s Dragons. It’s a story of events leading up to the Russian Revolution, seen through the eyes of Tsar …
Gettysburg National Military Park: 2022 Road Trip
My East Coast road trip this year featured an overnight stop at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of a three-day-long Civil War battle that ended in a …
The Siancong War: Worse Than I Thought
Thanks to my local library I read History of the Marvel Universe by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez yesterday, hoping to clarify some of my questions about the Siancong War. …