There are also documented cases of knights slaying dragons and rescuing maidens with great success. Sadly there are several accounts of confused or inebriated knights slaying maidens while rescuing dragons.
Sure. That will sell really well. I have never met a vegetarian/vegan who wants to keep it a secret. "Nice day, isn't it?" "I'm a vegetarian." Nobody is going to want something that looks like meat so they can blend in with others. They usually want to feel morally/spiritually/ethically superior to people who eat meat.
I can do all of these things. In fact, I have done most of these things in the last year. Sadly, card catalogs have gone the way of the Dodo. I enjoyed browsing the subject listings in the card drawers. Cursive? I'll go you one better. On a daily basis, I still use fountain pens. My kids know most of these things. People should learn most, or all, of these skills.
Puget Sound is not "off the coast" of Washington. It is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, well inland from the coast. Is San Francisco Bay off the coast of California?https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Puget_Sound
As someone whose Star Trek experience goes back to the original airing (I was 12 when it premiered), I loved Galaxy Quest. It was an affectionate send up of '60s Sci-fi TV tropes. Too bad the studio did not know what to do with it.
I know he is a friend of yours, but don't you think he may have included a lot of extraneous material which diluted what he had to say? Instead of cutting it into smaller pieces, perhaps he should have edited it down. I get that the house/museum does not remain as Mr Howard and his mother lived in it. Here is a table like the one he had, but it is not the real one; here is a typewriter like he used, but it is not the real one. And did we really need to wonder if REH sat on that particular toilet in the remodeled bathroom?
Quite an interesting piece, albeit way too long for a format such as Neatorama. The narrative he presented in one piece could have been cut into a series of three or four articles. WTM certainly has a thing for REH, and it shows in his almost obsessive attention to tiny details. And as a person with a MA in history, I appreciate his inclusion of notes and links to citations.
In the TV special, I always got a kick out of the murder scene. As the Misfit Toys are dropped off to their new homes, the swimming bird (he cannot fly) falls to his death while the elf waves bye bye. The crime starts at 0:45 in this clip.
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
And of course, this project to create a star fighter which does not appear in any of the movies was launched with the intention of adding to the rich post modern mythos of Star Wars(tm). The thought of making money off gullible fans never crossed their minds.
My kids know most of these things.
People should learn most, or all, of these skills.
And therefore . . .