I just wanna lock my bike
Millions for parking lots, but not one cent for bike racks! Or: Making Al Gore Cry Twice in recent days...
American Scoundrel
Cover via Amazon It wasn’t an abiding interest in the Civil War that caused me to tuck into Thomas Keneally‘s...
I need a reset button
This morning’s recipe for disaster: Just-cleared sink drain completely clogged again Need to fill gas tank Find out I’ve forgotten...
I miss letterhead
If you got a letter from Nikola Tesla in 1900, it would have been on this gorgeously printed letterhead. Related...
Hoxsie!
For reasons that mostly have to do with how much I love this 1862 advertisement, bits of local history will...
The other one
Barnes & Noble 3-20-11 DSC_2176.jpg, originally uploaded by carljohnson. I could have put up the pic where she stuck her...
Swimming is forbidden
From the 1884 “Albany Hand-Book, A Stranger’s Guide and Residents’ Manual”: “Swimming in the river near the shores or wharves,...
Park & Shop
Just by chance, a post on another blog caught my eye a few weeks back and brought back memories long...
Letter from home
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s blog has an interesting article on a little piece of correspondence from George...