I wonder

What is the most horrifyingly ancient and decrepit piece of infrastructure on which you are forced to depend?

I don't know if this is true for other people

Few things kill my WSOD as quickly as legal procedurals where the lawyers and cops make reference to the possibility of the death penalty in legal regimes that do not have the death penalty.

CBS Radio Workshop: The Toledo War

The Toledo War

This is a musical using as its subject matter the 1835–36 conflict between Michigan and Ohio War over the exact location of the boundary between Michigan and Ohio.

CBS Radio Workshop:The Enormous Radio (based on a story by John Cheever)

The Enormous Radio

A couple's seemingly perfect life is disrupted when their new, expensive [1] radio turns out to allow them to listen in on other tenants in their building. This leads to a series of increasing disturbing revelations, ones the wife can never unhear.

I think Mind Webs did this as well.


1: $400 in 1947 $ = ~$4100 in current US dollars.

Hope Johnson's The Natural Satellites Song -

Spotted in various places

Adventure Rocketship! is a new magazine in book form [...]

How many bookazines have there been over the years?

More developments in Ford Saga

The brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations in Saturday's Globe and Mail that he was involved in the illicit drug trade in the 1980s.

The Star's account.

I completely forgot having done this on shwi

(The seed was a desire for a timeline where Pacte des Loups was part of a long-standing genre of martial arts western films)
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CBS Radio Workshop: Lovers, Villains and Fools

Lovers, Villains and Fools

Helen Hayes provides a sampler of pieces drawn from Shakespeare.