Jerry Stratton's Blog

The third printing of my Eddie Doucette recipe collection features several new matchbook recipes, more recipes from his All-American Hot Dog pamphlet, and Chicken Dinner with a French Accent, among many more general recipes.

I have a post on According to Hoyt that combines and condenses all of my Sestercentennial Meals posts. Please read!

Adams and Jefferson both dying on the Jubilee was hailed as “a most singular coincidence… A more signal and impressive combination of circumstances is not to be found… Nothing so sublime could have been conceived by human thought… Who does not envy such a death after such a life?”

Marie Kimball’s Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book provides several pot-luck friendly dishes for your Fourth of July celebration this Semiquincentennial.

I tried these recipes as part of Lisa Padol’s Alarums and Excursions festschrift, a farewell celebration for Alarums and Excursions. These are recipes from the family, science fiction, and gaming community of Lee Klingstein Gold.

Alan Moore’s view of progress and the coming singularity combines the John Von Neumann’s optimism with Norbert Weiner’s pessimism.

A simple adventure with an exotic antagonist, for Kolchak and Daredevils!

One of the reasons HIV spread so quickly through the gay community of the late seventies and early eighties is that researchers refused to acknowledge how casually the gay community treated sex.

Walt Disney’s The Swamp Fox was an influential take on Francis Marion’s life—very possibly an influence on Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, too.

As I complete my long-delayed projects folder, it’s time to bring my superhero roleplaying game, Men & Supermen, back to the future. Or at least back to the current decade or so.