Real Wild Bill
This is the Oklahoma Veterans Home, in Ardmore, OK, circa 1910. My great-great-grandfather, William Beard Hull, died in this building on February […]
Ozark boy turned Hoosier makes good.
Big Johnny Hull, Depauw 1949. Played at Wabash a year. Then transferred to a school with girls. He excelled at hoops, too. […]
“The Church Militant and Triumphant,” 1365, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze
The Church Militant and Triumphant, 1365, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (1319–1377), fresco, 30′ by 36′, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. Some […]
Joshua Crossing River Jordan with Ark of the Covenant, Benjamin West, 1800
Joshua Passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, Benjamim West, 1800, oil on panel, Art Gallery of New South […]
“Make Mine Colonial.”
Make yours Colonial Predator Coffee. Stock up before the weekend begins. “All the Oppression. Twice the Caffeine.”
Snap-Apple Night, Daniel Maclise, 1833
Maclise (1806-1870) started painting this after attending a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland in 1833. Oil on canvas. 25 × 33 1/4 […]
“The Third of May 1808”
Francisco Goya, 1814, Oil on canvas (106 in × 137 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid
“The Arrival Of Columbus’ Flotilla”
“The Arrival Of Columbus’ Flotilla,” Ivan Aivazovsk,1880, oil on canvas (50 in x 72 in), Private Collection
Eddie Guest, The People’s Poet
Enormously popular for the first half of the 20th century, Detroit’s Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959) charmed America with simple and often funny […]
Sandburg on Legal Midwest
“The Lawyers Know Too Much” Carl Sandburg, 1922 The lawyers, Bob, know too much.They are chums of the books of the old […]
Sainte Genevieve
“I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come.” ~ Sainte Genevieve (422-512) Lifelong miracle worker, consecrated virgin, and Gallic […]
J. Dan Hull, Jr.
John Daniel Hull, II, 1900 – 1987. My grandfather. I spent his last 10 or so Thanksgivings with him in Missouri with […]
New Mind
“Without invention nothing is well spaced, unless the mind change, unless the stars are new measured, according to their relative positions, the […]
The World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if eternally annoying 12 Rules will get you there, […]
Sparta: Money, Guns and Mothers
“War is the last of all things to go according to schedule.”— Thucydides (460 BC – 395 BC) in The History of […]
O Rare Partner Emeritus
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
1971
On June 4, 1971, 55 years ago, on a fine Friday evening on our football field on Drake Road, near the 3 […]
Memorial Day
Memorial Day need not be maudlin but is always about our deepest respect, appreciation, admiration and longing. You can drink Miller Lite, […]
Duke Chanticleer 1975: Gonzoid Specimen No. 1.
People don’t want to accept that about themselves, that they’re part of the general rot, and they react to that angrily, which […]
Wild Men 2026 Rankings
The Rankings 1 through 100 as this blog sees them as of April 1. Living or (mainly) dead since the beginning of […]
REDUX: The Shakespeare Edition. Blawg Review #318: Fully-Engaged, Participatory, Risk-Taking, Pro-Immersion, Get-Off-Your-Knees, Change-the-World Will Shakespeare-Hunter Thompson Edition.
HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more […]