December 15, 2025
Tag: Spanish culture
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The Last Serious Thing!
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(I plagiarized this title from Bruce Schoenfeld*.) Bullfighting. The very word raises the hackles of some people, and you know who they are; I shall be quiet about who – for now! I have opinions about a lot of things but not bullfights. This is a topic that is too complex and inter-disciplined to understand…
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November 26, 2024 4 Comments
The cadre of characters who entertain us in literature and TV shows as crime detectives is a diverse group, but most of them have one conceptual ancestor – Dick Tracy. Tracy became an American pop-culture icon before it was popular to be one. Here is only a speck of his story. And the Dick Tracy postcards – we have most of them!