The Fatal Glass of Beer by W C Fields, 1933
Speaks for itself
https://youtu.be/RgpHfQpYxl4
Melancholy, a Ten-Minute Indulgence
Just to shut you down for about ten minutes, remind you of your place...
...and our place.
Both from Ken Burns films:
Lewis and Clark
https://youtu.be/llhs1p2xNgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTONjssOqc
Ashokan Farewell, Civil War
https://youtu.be/uZmxZThb084
Ashokan Farewell-Sullivan Ballou Letter
https://youtu.be/1VK1KcZoDu0
Maria Georgieva Tracheva, an Art Friend in Bulgaria
...could use your business.
I've known her as Mimi since I first visited the Sofia Flea Market in the center of the city in 1994. I last visited her in 2008, and in those years,...
Comparing 20-year old music tastes in 1965 and 2022
Culturally this is no small matter. Moreover, natural laws of cultural survival are at stake as well.
It's not that bunch of old farts simply think their music tastes were more civilized. You should make...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
One of the first history books I ever read was Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker. He was America's "Ace of Aces" in World War I, flying French bi-planes (since we hadn't made...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...