Jerry Stratton's Blog

The legend of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown says that the band played “The World Turned Upside Down”. It probably didn’t. But we’re going to print the legend anyway.

Various songs, and the history of the songs, that made the Revolution—sometimes decades later.

Pumpkin cornbread allows you to take your pumpkin leavings straight to the oven without any further preparation other than grating them.

The very first modern refrigerator/freezer came with a very revelatory cookbook that treated customers nearly the same way computer manuals would exactly fifty years later: as partners in a revolutionary new means of creativity.

“The algorithm” is designed to cause strife, because strife increases eyeballs on ads.

This month is the fiftieth anniversary of C.W. McCall’s hit Convoy, part of the amazing CB radio fad of the seventies and the inspiration for a very unique Peckinpah western.

In the Mirror, Mirror parallel universe of the original Star Trek series, many of the pivotal moments in the history of the Federation happened in the opposite way. This includes the history of the Enterprise itself. This adventure takes place at the start of the Enterprise’s storied history as a naval vessel.

Refrigerators started to take off during Prohibition, and became ubiquitous following World War II. This Westinghouse refrigerator manual and cookbook gives us a glimpse at home refrigerator/freezers in the Great Depression.

Universal Music Group appears to be attacking their own musicians when they appear on Rick Beato’s music show and play and discuss their own music.

The contradictions of a superhero world require that you either ignore them or love them. You can never analyze them.