Sophie Lancaster

I am posting about this simply because it needs to be posted about, in my opinion. It needs to be remembered, at least for a moment.
Sophie Lancaster died at age 20, murdered for being unusual. My prayers and deepest condolences go out to her boyfriend and her family. I don’t know why this moves me [...]

Movie Night

It is with a great deal of pleasure that I place before you, my dear readers, certain video files which got me through the weekend.
While certainly not Caledonian in content, they are with a doubt Caledonian in SPIRIT…and after all, that IS what counts, isn’t it.

A Houdini Moment

One of my heroes since I first began to read of him as a boy is Erich Weiss, better known to the world as the great Harry Houdini, a world renowned magician, escape artist and debunker of hoaxers. No Victorian figure, save perhaps Phineas T. Barnum, could be said to have had a larger effect [...]

War and War

Certainly there are few classics as well known (but as little read) as Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The book, originally published as a magazine serial between 1865 and 1869, has been the butt of more Tonight Show jokes and lame Sitcom one-liners then any other literary work save perhaps the Bible.
War and Peace is again [...]