The Atlas of Men

When I was in college in the mid 1980’s, a friend of mine gave me a very odd book. It was an old oversized hardback, entitled The Atlas of Men, by William H. Sheldon. The dust jacket was still mostly intact, though the copyright was from 1954. It may have been the first (and only) [...]

The Day I Was a Rock-n-Roll Roadie

At the end of November 1999, the World Trade Organization held a conference here in Seattle. The proceedings lasted several days, and generated huge street protests. Some called it “the Battle in Seattle”. At the time I was working as a pharmacist on Capitol Hill, rather removed from the fracas which was occurring mostly downtown. [...]

To Live and Die on Halloween

Anyone who has known me for any length of time knows that I’m more or less obsessed with the movie To Live and Die in LA. Because of the film I became interested in the subject of counterfeit currency in the mid 1980’s.

A recent post on the aag blog reminded me of a similar document [...]

A Halloween Post Mortem

I can’t remember exactly when I discovered the books of Jan Harold Brunvand. His first book, The Vanishing Hitchhiker, was published in 1981. His second, The Choking Doberman, in 1984. I suspect I may have read The Choking Doberman first. I was in college at the time, at the University of Montana. The notion of [...]