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Ghost Touring Cambridge
I bought the tickets for a ghost tour through Living Social (which essentially got me 2 tickets for the price of one) back in July & scheduled it in August. It's pretty low-key & history-based, but a cute event. (Apparently there's a competing tour group with costumes, drama, & made-up stories ( Read more... ) -
Documentary About THE MILLION YEAR PICNIC Comic Shop
This is my comic shop. It was not my first shop - that one was back in New Brunswick, NJ. But it has been my shop longer than that other store (since 1994) and I've been working there for 7 years now. (HOLY CRAP, SEVEN YEARS!)
If you love comics, maybe you'd enjoy pitching in for this project? It's a documentary about The Million Year Picnic:Adventures!
Tonight, I braved the Commuter Rail to meet up with muffyjo in Woburn, near where she's currently working, so we could zoom over to Salem & visit the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) exhibit of The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, which is closing on SUNDAY, 1/8/2011, so get yer ass over there if you want to see it before it's gone ( Read more... )Thoughts on Horror Movies (or A Meditation on Monsters)
Even if only tenuously, the various Frankenstein movies were based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name ( Read more... )One Of My Clients Published!
I edited this really neat dissertation a while back and the author got it published!
Kautilyan Antecedents of the Westphalian Order by Sunny Jiten Singh
How cool is that? It's $105.45, or I'd buy a copy. Wicked interesting stuff, especially if you like political history along the lines of Machiavelli's The Prince and some of the most advanced ( Read more... )History of Food
Random Fact: Up until about 120 years ago, lettuce was always cooked.Historical Relevance
This is an interesting article about a forgotten piece of phone phreaker (and therefore hacker) history: http://www.counterpunch.org/price06302008.htmlRead more... )