I just bought my kid a book on Paris circa 1890 to 1920, and I thought I'd excerpt a few pictures here. My intention was to focus on th...

A long time ago I wrote about this subject, and I might even have used some of the same Weegee pictures to illustrate it. If so, don't ...

It's amazing how many many good comic strips just never caught on with the public, maybe because  they didn't contain appealing regu...

That's Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence above. If you ever read a Noel Coward play, you might have come away wondering what all the f...

This is a post about nerd girls. Just for contrast here's (above) a girl who's definitely not a nerd. Ditto for the two below. ...

There's different kinds of evil. What I'll be talking about here is creepy evil...the kind that gets under your skin and makes yo...