Day 527: When Molasses Attacks!

originally published June 10, 2013 I know – 1919 was a very different age. Morals were gauged by what now seems an antiquated perspective, cultural dynamics were driven by significantly different forces, and the very fundamental tenets of American life existed within parameters and motivations that would have been radically different than those which we […]

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Day 523: The Pilecki Affair

originally published June 6, 2013 Anyone with even a little Polish blood fluming through their veins may want to pour themselves a tall glass of national pride while they read today’s article. There are war heroes, there are kick-ass war heroes, and then there’s Witold Pilecki. In August of 1943, Pilecki singlehandedly changed the very […]

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Day 517: With A Six-Gun & A Skirt

originally published May 31, 2013 I love a good story from the Old West, I did even before last fall when I was required to love good stories from the Old West in order to pass a film class on the westerns genre. More than anything, I love finding quirky stories that have slipped through the cultural […]

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Day 509: If She Looks Like A Pig, Sounds Like A Pig And Eats Like A Pig…

originally published May 23, 2013 Next time someone calls you pig-headed, you’d best confirm whether they’re referring to your stubborn nature or likening you to a seventeenth-century mythical medical mystery. Remember that Seinfeld episode when Kramer was convinced he’d seen a pig-boy in the hospital? It turns out that was actually a folklore reference to […]

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Day 502: Coco Chanel… The Nazi?

originally published May 16, 2013 As a middle-class white North American shlub, blindly stumbling in the direction of forty, and choosing a day’s wardrobe based on wrinkle content, embedded bulldog hairs and whether or not I have to leave the house and (ugh) interact with people, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about […]

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