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A Kolchak Christmas at North Texas 2023

I’ll be running another Kolchak: The Night Stalker game at North Texas in 2023, again using the Daredevils rules from Fantasy Games Unlimited.

1950 Cherry Pudding Dessert

A vanilla-almond custard covered with a thick cherry sauce, from a 1950 recipe calendar.

Our Cybernetic Future 2023: Entropy in Action

Studying the past, we can improve the future. Studying the futurists of the past, we can learn the tools to improve the future.

January birthday veal from 1950

The Veal Rolls from the 1950 recipe calendar of Hope Lutheran Church in Chicago.

Promotional Cookbook Archive

I’ve managed to acquire several old promotional pamphlets and cookbooks that don’t appear to be available elsewhere on the net. I’m making them available here.

Eddie Doucette’s “Home Cooking” episode guide

Home cooking episode guide gleaned from 1954 and 1955 Chicago-area TV Guides.

A home-cooking handful from Eddie Doucette

A glimpse at a long-lost 1954 Chicagoland television cooking show, including recipes. Some of them require creative interpretation.

Three OGLs walk into a bar: The Return of Gruumsh

It has never been a good idea to use the OGL. That’s become obvious to a lot more people over the last several weeks.

Morning Rant, January 23, 2023 linked on Editorials

You can’t just cut off the invisible hand of economic activity with a lockdown, shut down “nonessential businesses”, pay millions of people not to work, attack the fossil fuel industry which provides fertilizer and transportation, then say, “OK, let’s turn the economy back on,” and expect shelves to magically be full again.

The functioning economy that was destroyed by our best and brightest had developed over many years to provide services, supplies, labor, transportation, etc at the wages and prices that would keep it all functioning. Many years of economic evolution led to the bounty of pre-Covid lockdowns. No person could ever design or command the economy to function as it did, but destructive, ignorant politicians had the power to quickly destroy it. And they did.

Communists and Covidians think that shelves get filled when politicians give the command to allow it [and become] deeply puzzled why the shelves are empty despite giving the OK for economic activity to resume.

Shelves are often empty now because the golden goose of free market capitalism was killed by the Covid response. If government stays out of the way, stops paying people not to work, stops punishing farming and transportation, etc, etc, the shelves will eventually be full again. Eventually.

But golden geese take a long time to evolve.

The Morning Rant, January 23, 2023 linked on Editorials

You can’t just cut off the invisible hand of economic activity with a lockdown, shut down “nonessential businesses”, pay millions of people not to work, attack the fossil fuel industry which provides fertilizer and transportation, then say, “OK, let’s turn the economy back on,” and expect shelves to magically be full again.

The functioning economy that was destroyed by our best and brightest had developed over many years to provide services, supplies, labor, transportation, etc at the wages and prices that would keep it all functioning. Many years of economic evolution led to the bounty of pre-Covid lockdowns. No person could ever design or command the economy to function as it did, but destructive, ignorant politicians had the power to quickly destroy it. And they did.

Communists and Covidians think that shelves get filled when politicians give the command to allow it [and become] deeply puzzled why the shelves are empty despite giving the OK for economic activity to resume.

Shelves are often empty now because the golden goose of free market capitalism was killed by the Covid response. If government stays out of the way, stops paying people not to work, stops punishing farming and transportation, etc, etc, the shelves will eventually be full again. Eventually.

But golden geese take a long time to evolve.