Category Archive: Big Sensations
“The Cabaret of Ghosts is running performances day and night”
In 1920, the Ouija board was all the rage. Fingertips poised on the pointer, legions of Americans glided their way through its alphabet, to yes, no, and eventually to goodbye.”Everybody’s doing it,” one journalist reported. “It is the new fairyland….
Image Factory
“Put a peephole in my brain Two New Pence to have a go I’d like to be a gallery Put you all inside my show….” So sang David Bowie in his early 70s tribute to Andy Warhol. For the next…
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,…
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