A historical inaccuracy I can’t help noticing
Anyone as old as me (67) knows how much Americans (and Brits) used to smoke. For much of the last century, tobacco use was commonplace. Cigars. Pipes. Cigarettes. Snuff. Chewing …
Category: History
All this and World War I
I read a lot of books. Since I started my blog back in 2009 (jeez!) I’ve blogged about a lot of books. It occurred to me that I could add …
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 …
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 …