In the "Let's Make a Sandwich" thread the other day, someone brought up Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, the absolutely bonkers 1906 film about someone who eats too much Welsh rarebit (and OK, too many beers) and has a some crazy dreams. This is the...
Author: Erik Loomis
In the big scheme of everything that is going wrong, Trump rescinding the order to not shoot wolf puppies and bear cubs in their dens in Alaska may not be.
Gizmodo has this series where they ask experts this or that. For this week's version, they asked a bunch of historians about which technology has led to the most accidental.
I am now in on the LGM podcast game, interviewing scholars with recent books that I have read and enjoyed. I was very happy to start with Jennifer Holland, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Her new book, Tiny You: A Western...
What would make more sense for a day of fundraising than a video of classic fundraising? If you don't give us an appropriate amount of money, this series is going.
Nobody likes fundraising. It's the worst. You all want good quality content. We want to write good quality content. And yet, here we are, forced to raise funds once a.
This is a genuinely astounding document. An hour of interviews with old musicians concluding with them playing the Dr. Pepper theme song. Doc Watson, Muddy Waters, Maybelle Carter, Bill Monroe, Bo Diddley, Grandpa Jones, etc. The interviews themselves are great and then it’s actually kind...
Tonight's entry is this more than slightly terrifying 1993 Canadian PSA. What's really notable about this, other than the horrifying puppets in your face and of course the potential to.
Let's start with this interview with the great Sonny Rollins, still alive and active at the age of 89, even though he can't play anymore. But he's still politically aware.
To distract us from all the horrible things in the world, here's a great story on how a Catholic library in Cairo began collecting street-level Islamic religious texts in the 1950s and have compiled an invaluable collection of material that would have otherwise been lost....
This is absolutely horrifying and also fits into 500 years of genocide against Native communities in the Americas. A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from.
Mt. Rushmore is a racist abomination. The blasting of presidential faces into a South Dakota mountain was an openly racist act of the early twentieth century. This land had been.