Riddle Me Now, Riddle Me Then…:The Answer
The solution to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
John Dillinger Goes to the Movies
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
Is it true what they said about John Dillinger?
I’m reasonably sure that most American boys who reached adolescence in the 1960s knew Dillinger’s dick. It was enormous, preserved in formaldehyde at the Smithsonian Institution. Friends of mine who grew up on the east coast told me years later that on high school trips to Washington, the boys would spread out and look for it.
Walter Cronkite and the Decline of the Evening News
Donald Ritchie says goodbye to Walter Cronkite.
Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller’s Big Brother removes Orwell’s Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
Michael Jackson, Nostalgia, and the 1980s
Elvin Lim looks at 80’s nostalgia.
American War Propaganda Top Ten
The top ten propaganda messages of the last century.
OUP USA on The AAP/ Authors Guild Settlement With Google
OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here. Below is a brief excerpt from the piece. “…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain […]
Dancing With A Cockatoo
Can birds keep a beat?
Friday procrastination: link love – 30 Rock, the Muppets, and literary losers
What Rebecca has been reading.
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: The Answer
The riddle answer!
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Clue Three
The third and final clue in Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Clue Two
Gordon Thompson provides clue number two.
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Clue One
Gordon Thompson’s first riddle clue.
Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That…
Will you be able to solve Gordon Thompson’s riddle?
How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal
Donald Ritchie looks at the reporting of Watergate.