Honor and glory in a time long past
Another couple of random book reviews from my own blog. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne Freeman shows how the political leaders of the Revolutionary …
The Best Movies You Never Heard of
My wife and I used to co-write a site called “Blue Collar, Black Tie”; after not having updated it since 2017, we finally shut it down recently. There were a few posts there that fit well here, including a couple on the subject of movies that are unjustly forgotten today, “The Best Movies You Never Heard Of.” Rather than simply moving those posts over here, I decided to sit re-watch the films mentioned so that I can add any fresh thoughts to my previous opinions.
Was this when DC and Marvel started handing out the good drugs?
It’s common knowledge that back in the early 1970s, some among the new generation of Bronze Age comics writers were using drugs. The Golden and Silver Age generations, as far …
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 …
