20 May 2025

Easy Cases Make Good Law?

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The Washington Post and Forbes reported on how five US Supreme Court justices recused themselves on a copyright infringement case. Four ...
19 May 2025

“Seeing all those curls lying on the floor”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett finished Little Lord Fauntleroy with young Cedric still wearing the same clothes and hairstyle as when he started. ...
16 May 2025

“The Fauntleroy period had set in”

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The hairstyle and costume popularized by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy , as illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, didn’t rema...
10 May 2025

The Little Lord’s “Love-Locks”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy started to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885, then came out in book form in 1886. I...
21 March 2025

Pulled into the World of AI Language Models

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The Atlantic Monthly just published a searchable listing of works uploaded to the LibGen collection of pirated writing. I found two th...
06 March 2025

Raskin Returns, the Sequel

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As Publishers Weekly points out , there’s poetic irony in two previously unknown literary projects surfacing from the literary estate of El...
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28 February 2025

Who Stepped into Buddy McDonald’s Shoes?

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This is a footnote to my remarks on the short show-business career of Buddy McDonald . I posited that because one day Buddy showed up for ...
24 February 2025

The Strangeness of “Wiggle Your Ears”

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“Wiggle Your Ears” ( IMDB ; YouTube ; Lucky Corner ) was a weird entry in the Our Gang series. The storyline was not only adult, it was bl...
16 February 2025

Wisest Thing I’ve Read Today

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From Katherine Rundell’s essay “Why Children’s Books?” in the London Review of Books : It’s easier to trust a writer who writes great food:...
08 February 2025

“I just didn't know how to steer it”

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By the spring of 1932, two years after Buddy McDonald first acted in an Our Gang movie, there had been some big changes at the Hal Roach Stu...
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