Author: Dan Hull

Nancy Susan Hull McCracken (1925-2023). Family hero. Born Springfield, MO. Died Chicago, IL. Photo: DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, circa 1947.

Slave Owner. Womanizer. Rebel. Founding Father. Writer. Inventor. Sage. Wit. Polymath. All-Round Badass.

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Thank you for Free Verse, young man.

McCrae in 1912 Veterans Day””or Poppy Day in the U.K. and Europe””is always on November 11. We Americans on Veterans Day honor […]

Can we stop feeding the Monster every time we get the chance? Some legal memos, cases summaries and strategy documents “you can […]

There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess […]

Or just happy to see me? Judges should not have “constituents.” But in most American states, they still do. And there is […]

John Keats (1795-1821) by William Hilton, 1822 Oil on canvass 25″ x 20″ National Portrait Gallery, London

Viking dinners are awesome and rad. Let’s bring those back.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825″“1905) The Day of the Dead, 1859 This is All Souls Day.

Best book ever written about November 2.

Speaking of Halloween and the musical occult. Cincinnati, Ohio. Saw my first live rock show here in summer of 1969. The late […]

Fra Angelico, 1424, The National Gallery, London

Today is All Saint’s Day, a Christian (here, read Roman Catholic) feast day. It is also known as All Hallows Day, Hallowmas […]

Allhallowtide is a Western three-day observance (or triduum, a word I learned today) between October 31 and November 2 when we remember […]

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, “Remains of the Temple of the God Canopus in Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli,” from Vedute di Roma, 1768. The […]

Speaker Mike Johnson’s a character out of a novel and all people can do is argue about which box he fits in.

For what else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to the gods?* —Epictetus (55-135 AD), The Discourses, Book […]

At once playful and dead-serious, Paris is “the city where artists love and starve together, shock the bourgeoisie, then die tragically young.” […]

Since the summer of 2005, this blog has showcased a number of pet issues and themes. We’ll keep doing that. One topic […]

Over-Communicate: Bombard, Copy Confirm. It’s from our annoying but dead-on accurate 12 Rules. And it’s short. Rule Five: “Over-Communicate”: Bombard, Copy and […]

Bring Back Real Women. Educated. Smart. Curious. Elegant. Thin. Pretty. Healthy. Feminine.

“Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, […]