Author: Dan Hull

Catherine Deneuve, 52, in 1995.

Based on my various news aggregators and feeds, Western culture is now so fragmented and degraded that we’ve raised minutia and trivia […]

Young Ben Disraeli: “I rust like a Damascus sabre in the sheath of a poltroon.” Is being a good lawyer enough? Consider […]

I raptly watched the first Super Bowl with my dad and brother in 1967. To us, a jock clan, nothing was cooler. […]

When will my beloved AA get back to getting people clean and sober to participate in real life?

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Chekhov with Maxim […]

Ten soldiers wisely led, will beat one hundred without a head. –Euripides (480-406 BC)

Neither the tiny rural village of Lindsey nor the surrounding countryside has changed much since 1634, when one side of my family […]

RIP Wayne Kramer. “I’m sick and tired of playing these blues/And I’m sick to my guts of the American Ruse.”

Damn. It’s getting cold again in the northern hemisphere. Cold as a witch’s tit, Jack. The purpose of this post””which over the […]

Comparisons between old Rome and modern U.S. are exciting and instructive. ~ What About Paris? When in Rome, do as many Romans […]

Indian Hill. I miss growing up in Indian Hill, Ohio. A community that protected its own. If I were driving around at […]

“You and your firm are judged by every piece of writing that goes out the door.” –A wise person, possibly Dan White, […]

Bring back real women and girls: Annabelle Wallis, English, b. September 5, 1984

I like E. Jean Carroll. Always have. Fine and accomplished writer. Hoosier. Midwesterner. Funny as hell. Former super-jock. Cheerleader. Ex-beauty queen. Former […]

Don’t forget. My new Colonial Predator Unfair Trade Coffee product launches March 1. All the Oppression,Twice the Caffeine.

Center bottom photo: My Great Aunt Helen Hull in 1922. Born 1906. So that makes 4 generations and counting of serious Hull-McCracken […]

ÃŽle Saint-Louis on the Seine, seen from a famous bridge. Americans, the Alpha-humans, the elect and the “winners” in modern world history, […]

Lucien Carr: Beat icon, pro, original, work ethic rich kid, excitable boy. I met Beat badboy legend Carr once and briefly when […]

John Shields, 1971 Class Valedictorian, Indian Hill High School, Indian Hill, Ohio, on April 30, 2022. No, he’s not dead. I just […]

It’s scary. If you’re working, you’re marketing–and that is Rule 6 of the 12 Rules.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – J.L.

“Oppression Coffee” is a startup I’ve joked about but I am now thinking seriously about launching it. Unlike ‘fair trade’ coffee products […]

HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more […]

Let’s hear it for those who create. Babies, books, music, art, new ideas. New forms and new minds. Below: Romain Rolland, 1866-1944. […]

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]

You think you’re scrappy, resourceful, resilient and tough? Robert Frost spent his life as a poet, student, teacher, newspaper reporter, farmer, factory […]