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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
On the Bookshelf: American Lightning, by Howard Blum
I knew that battles between wealthy industrialists and labor forces during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were fierce. In my high school U.S. history class we talked about little else. But “American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood” told a story that I had never heard before.
In 1910, the [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Holy punctuation, Batman!
This was the case with a 32-year-old Slovakian named Mitja Valencic – he set a breakneck pace, and was beautiful, but you could tell, watching him, in his ski suit, and really, these things are too damn tight, he knew it would not hold up.
There were many crack-ups, especially in the first heat: Bode [...]
