cold war – VoVatia (original) (raw)

It Creeps and Leaps and Glides and Slides

WARNING! SPOILERS for these four movies! Picnic at Hanging Rock – An Australian film based on an earlier novel, and a mystery that’s never actually solved. A group of schoolgirls go on a picnic to Hanging Rock, a landmark in … Continue reading →

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Show Me the Way

When I was in the sixth grade, I received Greg Bear’s Eternity as part of a gift exchange. I read part of it, but for some reason I never finished. It was actually the sequel to another book called Eon, … Continue reading →

Let Me Finish

I checked out the third volume of Walt Kelly’s Pogo strips, Evidence to the Contrary, which runs from from 1953 to 1954. As acknowledged in the notes at the back of the volume, this is when the strip started getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, History, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants | Tagged albert the alligator, churchy lafemme, cold war, deacon mushrat, evidence to the contrary, howland owl, indian charlie, joseph mccarthy, mole maccarony, patrick mccarran, pogo, president richard nixon, simple j. malarkey, walt kelly |

Domino Domination

I remember playing Dominoes as a kid, but I’ll be jiggered if I remember all the rules now. I know you had to match adjacent tile patterns, but not much beyond that. Really, several different games can be played with … Continue reading →