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WELCOME
Thanks for dropping in. As you’ll quickly see, pictures, links to songs and writings eclectic to the point...
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The Bottle Conjuror
If you checked the newspaper on January 16, 1749, the choices were these: Orazio at the Haymarket. The...
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Dixie This
I try to keep intemperate rants off the menu, but the [Dixie] Chicks really lit me up a...
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Just No
From Charleston, South Carolina, once slavery central, comes the world’s worst Christmas ornament: Song of the Day: I’m...
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The Thin Man Goes to the Head
I’ve just been reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man again and discovered something odd in it. Well, two...
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Once in Love With Mary
In delighted receipt today of the complete box set of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, recently released a mere...
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Buddhist Paints Taj Mahal in Acrylics
The other day I ran across one of my old reporter’s notebooks in which I found raw notes...
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Roxies Hart
Prompted by the Fosse/Verdon eight-parter, I’ve been following Chicago in its many manifestations backward into the past. Among...
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Stuff for School
Here’s an easy way to do a lot of good: donating school supplies to teachers in need around...
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Anchovies and Sheep
For reasons that need not detain us I recently bought a South African cookbook published in 1891. Old...
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Order More Sackcloth
The touch of malicious joy I expected to feel about this news story didn’t materialize because the whole...
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Blackface, Age 6
Like all old saws, the old saw that the past is another country isn’t always true as the...