Torsade Literary Space Assorted Opinions: With Malice Towards None (part four)
Assorted Opinions To Whom Do You Refer (With Malice Towards None: part four) Scenario One: Darrin has a habit of walking up behind Willa while she works at her desk, putting his hand on one of her shoulders, and leaning over the other to see what she […]
Adventures in Research: Huckstering
My Curious Reading Adventures in Research Huckstering As the news patron leafs casually through the daily pages, he may simply overlook the advertisement that doesn’t reach out and grab. A brief selection of quirks and ingenious notions, from advertisers of the 19th century. […]
Assorted Opinions: With Malice Towards None (part three)
Assorted Opinions To Whom Do You Refer (With Malice Towards None: part three) To Whom Do You Refer One future day, a rumor will rise, spread by the older people, that some new use of language, or type of conduct, some new […]
To Whom Do You Refer: Malice Part Two
Assorted Opinions To Whom Do You Refer (With Malice Towards None: part two) When I speak of good taste and of good moral tone I do not mean the kind of good taste which is offended by every reference to the unpleasant things […]
The Yellow Press: William Randolph Hearst
The Yellow Press A mini-bio of William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) America’s most recognized name in newspaper barons, W. R. Hearst, was also an active figure in politics; a collector, a real estate investor, a media mogul, who came into public […]
Adventures in Research: Garfield Edition
Adventures in Research: Garfield Edition I’m currently writing All Bedlam Courses Past, the sequel to A Figure from the Common Lot. In Bedlam, the assassination of President James A. Garfield, (shot July 2, 1881, died September 19), bears on the characters’ lives…and the interest, for me as author, is in those […]
Advice for Misfits: The Snobberies
My Curious Reading Advice for Misfits The Snobberies Change comes about when complying with a new idea is more rewarding than defying it. The reward may be pure gain (spring-cleaning your closets to earn a few bucks at a yard sale). Or, procrastination may reduce reward to […]
Adventures in Research: Klan Signaling
My Curious Reading Adventures in Research Klan Signaling Don’t Break Up a Set An integral aspect of conscientiously preserving history, is not allowing its component parts to become detached from the source. To offer a variation on the well-known […]
On Marketing: Advice for Misfits
My Curious Reading On Marketing: Advice for Misfits Misfits Are Made, Not Born Just as you learn the language (with seeming effortlessness) of your household, you learn social skills by example and teaching, in the home and neighborhood, and don’t learn them if these things […]