1. Saw my first major league baseball game on Friday night. The Braves crushed the Pirates. Brian McCann hit two home runs (though I didn’t see the first one because we were ten minutes late) and Andruw Jones hit one. Kind of a boring game actually, since it was a blowout, but a game is [...]
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Random things
Posted in Baseball, Cinema and Film, Life in general, Scholarship, Webster Edgerly, ralstonism, television on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wow…
Posted in Webster Edgerly, ralstonism on May 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Go over to Google and do a couple searches if you’d like to see something sort of impressive.
This humble little blog of mine is the tenth highest rated hit (out of 634) for the word “ralstonism.”
It is also the seventh highest hit (out of 24,600!) for the phrase “webster edgerly.”
I’m frankly amazed.
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While we’re on the topic. [...]
random things
Posted in Cinema and Film, History, Life in general, Major League Baseball, Webster Edgerly, television on April 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
As there’s little time right now for any ‘real’ updates (thanks to end of semester workloads), here’s a quickie on some things I’ve been doing.
1. Things are going fine with Jennifer. For anyone who’s wondering. Though there’s little time to do anything particularly unpredictable or new.
2. My research paper / first chapter of work on [...]
Joys of old newspapers
Posted in History, Webster Edgerly on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My Historiography paper topic was greeted with rapturous applause by my teacher. He actually has been doing research on censorship and such in the early days of film in Atlanta, and this is an area he has yet to dig into. So he’s quite excited that I’m going to be doing some work in the [...]
The Research Explodes the Page
Posted in Webster Edgerly on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Not that anyone cares, but there’s been a gigantic update to the Ralston Research list thanks to the 48 hours of research.
Nothing has been added to the biography because, frankly, it’s detailed enough; that will only expand when I go to write the actual book – if such a thing ever happens.
But the list of [...]
Sleeplessness and research
Posted in Life in general, Webster Edgerly on January 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason, probably simply an over-active mind, I was unable to sleep much at all last night. I believe I slept for two hours between seven and nine a.m.
So I’ve kept myself busy, over the last 24 hours, on a Webster Edgerly research binge of epic proportions, as it’s the only thing that keeps [...]
Webster Edgerly: not popular with the ladies…
Posted in Webster Edgerly on January 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’m apparently getting relatively good at researching the history of this man.
This afternoon I managed to track his personal life back to Lynn, Massachusetts, as a young lawyer going by his first name, Albert W. Edgerly. In 1881, he was embroiled in a rather infamous infidelity suit against his first wife, which apparently reached quite astonishing heights of town gossip, [...]
Classic book dealers
Posted in Webster Edgerly on January 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I get the feeling that no one really knows what old books are worth…they just put a price tag on them and hope that someone is willing to pay it.
Case in point, eight Edgerly books currently on ebay.
The asking price of $525 is absolutely insane (though “The Great Psychic” and “Operations of the Other Mind” [...]
Webster Edgerly – theatrical impresario
Posted in Webster Edgerly on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
While avoiding finishing my mid-term exam in Japanese Lit and Film this afternoon, I searched a historical database of newspaper articles for Webster Edgerly and Ralstonism.
I do love learning new things about this man.
He was apparently Professor of Elocution and Oratory at the Martyn School in Washington D.C. It’s unclear whether he was hired or started [...]
