Shroud of Turin

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Dear Broadway Stars: I Have To Apologize To You

I'm basically bowing and scraping before your fabulous feet and saying "I'm so sorry". And why am I apologizing? Because I'm old! I've been around. I've seen revivals upon revivals upon revivals of the shows you're currently reviving. In fact, I even saw the originals! So I'm always writing stu ... More >>

Playbills For Bomb Shows, Part II

​Welcome to my show-and-tell of printed proof that I've seen a whole mess of turkey trots and even kept the evidence. This time, I'm showing the dreaded Playbills for: Shogun, the Musical, which boasted a shipwreck and an earthquake, all inside a big bomb;

New "Shroud of Turin" Discovered in Harlem, Kind of Looks like a Dementor

​Yesterday in Harlem a divine message was bestowed upon this city, in the form of a misshapen cut-off tree branch. A blogger from Harlem Condo Life was on his way to a music festival in Morningside Park when he encountered the holy shape of a robed Druid-like figure, which is, obviously, Jesus ... More >>

NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum; Megan Prelinger's Another Science Fiction

An exhibit and book look back at the future

Shroud of Turin Debunker Writes Children's Books

​I'm a terrible Catholic and never believed much in the shroud of Turin, especially when I saw a really bad Broadway musical about it in the '80s. And sure enough, some years ago, N. D. Wilson did a study that proved how through ancient methods the shroud could easily be duplicated today. Fee ... More >>

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