by david allan van nostrand | Jun 29, 2026 | Americana, Inventions, Items in the News, The Wayback Machine
Three very bad man are after the money they think Audrey Hepburn has because her husband stole it from them and he has turned up dead, thrown from a train in his pajamas. The police gave her the small travel bag they found with his body. Inside were a few francs, a...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 22, 2026 | Items in the News, The world around us
Greetings, faithful readers of this space. You don’t know me. I’m Mike Strange, a retired sportswriter, who was once, in a galaxy far, far away, a college fraternity brother of David, your usual host. David asked me to step in for a week while he is tasked with a...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 15, 2026 | Americana, Herds, Marketing, Rituals
Butch Cassidy’s Hole-in-the-Wall Gang were mostly robbers of banks, stagecoaches, and trains at gunpoint, sometimes dramatically, as portrayed in a dynamite explosion the gang set off when Woodcock stubbornly wouldn’t part with Mister E. H. Harriman’s money. But to...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 1, 2026 | The world around us
As usual, I have four or five stories somewhere early in development, as the film folk like to say. Some are pretty good late drafts. Most are just early drafts, notes, ramblings, musings, maybe even a rough outline. A few are still in the incubator. Dozens more exist...
