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Here's the latest question that's been nagging at me. After having spent some time browsing through 20s-50s dust jacket art online, I'm wondering: were dust jackets intended to be kept with the original hardcover, or were they viewed as disposable and quickly discarded? Were they just a bit of...

This children's book is probably the oldest thing I own (that can be accurately dated). It's from 1881.

The Way Some People Die by Ross MacDonald.

Way too cold and foggy where I live (even in the Summer) for this, but I let my shirts dry indoors on hangers whenever possible. Takes a couple of days!

Rereading At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, by A. Roger Ekirch.

Urk! I can't even handle the Disneyland Skyway.

I share your interest...and have picked up a lot of the same stuff. Also recently found an interior design book from the late 1970s called High-Tech that was supposedly used as reference for Deckard's apartment, but the connections are pretty tenuous. While it's not technically a "Deckard"...

A Freudian analyst would have a field day with your boss, by the way.

Neat! Though in a perfect world she'd play Sue Storm in a Fantastic Four movie set in 1962.

When I started my current job, years ago, I made a point of wearing a tie every day...partly to appear more professional, partly to show off my collection of vintage neckwear, and partly to bring a little swingin' hipness to the environment. That was the idea, anyway. Eventually I realized I...

Depressing childrens' book from 1881: My wife supposedly has a couple 18th Century textbooks lying around the house, but they're lost in all the clutter.

Yes and no. I've worn vintage or vintage-inspired stuff ever since I was old enough to buy my own clothes, but know very little about brands, the evolution of styles, and how all the bits and pieces are supposed to fit together. I can't contribute a lot to threads about suits or hats, but am...

Weren't Sta Prest trousers part of the 1960s skinhead look, along with Fred Perry shirts and all that?

Lights Out and Quiet, Please seem to be the best-written and most consistently scary of the genre. Dark Fantasy, Diary of Fate, The Hermit's Cave and Hall of Fantasy are worth a listen, too, though they all feature a liberal mix of gems and clunkers. I subscribe to The Horror, a podcast run...

Michael Lark is indeed great. He and Dean Motter put out a really neat graphic novel a few years back called The Batman in Nine Lives, which was a fun, intelligent merger of the Batman universe with a Raymond Chandler-style noir setting. Including Dick Grayson as a cynical Philip...