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Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, shop although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, pharm author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County,…
Not so express, if that’s the expression
Yes, it’s taken me more time than I would have liked to post, as I’m traveling this week. But the idea of ‘posting’ got me thinking about what ‘posting’ would have meant during the days of the Pony Express. We…
“an infinite variety of beautiful forms”
Ancient Greeks probably invented kaleidoscopes, viagra buy but Scottish prodigy David Brewster (1781-1868) reinvented the toy in the 18th century, view making his first kaleidoscope at 10 years old. He wasn’t as clever a businessman as he was a scientist,…
Asperges à la Pompadour
Though the ancient Greeks ate asparagus, which grows wild in the Mediterranean, and the Romans did, too, in the East the vegetable picked up a sexy reputation as an aphrodisiac, one served in Tales of the Arabian Nights. (Asparagus’s success…
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