Monday, November 16, 2020

The Grande Ballroom--Detroit's Hard Rock Mecca

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Mural painted on plywood used to board up the Grande Ballroom. Detroit empresario Harry Weitzman was the financier and original owner of the...
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Thursday, November 5, 2020

Alex Karras--Basketball Bully?

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Anybody know what this publicity shot was for? I recognize Alex Karras and Merle Olsen. Who are the other guys? I think the guy with his leg...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

California Kid/Midwestern Heart

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I'm proud to announce that my daughter Nicole Fribourg is a romance novelist. I asked her to write a brief guest post about her motiva...
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Sunday, October 4, 2020

FORNOLOGY Reaches One Million Hits

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Photo credit: Nicole Fribourg It took over nine years for my Fornology.com blog to reach one million hits at 2:45 pm, October 3, 2020. My fi...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Detroit's Stroh's Brewing Company--With Its Days of Future Passed

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Founder Bernhard Stroh Avoiding the German Revolution of 1848, Bernhard Stroh emigrated to the United States with knowledge of the brew...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

The Seven Deadly Sins: Then and Now

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Parishoner receiving the sacrament of Confession. Western Catholicism has always had trouble explaining the problem of evil in a world ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

MAD Magazine Pulls the Plug on Alfred E. Neuman

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Alfred E. Neuman On the occasion of MAD magazine's final issue, the New York Times wrote that Mad was the "Irreverant Baby...