Popeye first appeared 10 years into the run of Thimble Theatre, a comic strip started in 1919 by E.C. “Elzie” Segar for the King Features Syndicate. The strip initially focused on Olive Oyl, her family, and her boyfriend Ham Gravy.

Here is a story of Rome’s staggering contrasts – extreme poverty amidst the wildest extravagance; treacherous dungeon life in darkness; chains amidst the splendors and amusements of luxurious court life. The story’s dramatic unfolding will grip your heart as you experience the true test of loyalty and the triumph of faith!

One could hardly find a more Gilbertian absurdity in the conjunction of ideas in the whole of the “Bab Ballads” than the idea that the success of some gentleman in the society of ladies depends upon whether he has previously at some time or other slightly irritated an ox.

Loathing of insects, loathing of snakes, loathing of things that squashed and squelched, all played their horrible symphonies over his nerves.

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, our hero awaits deportation to the space colonies. But why?

There is really something that appeals to the imagination about this notion of the ghost of a flea being a tall vampire stalking through tall corridors at night.

He took acid (and later heroin), but sought to develop a different sensibility in the manner of what he later referred to as “twisted French aestheticism,” i.e. more Arthur Rimbaud than Rolling Stones.

You hear in Judith Butler the voice of the Seducer, the voice of the Diabolist.

One of the regrettable things about the current state of the Cuckservative meme is that it seems to have undergone semantic shift.

The phrase “civic grief,” meaning an acute suffering over social ills and inequities, was widely used in the Russia of the 1860s; the disease itself became fashionable in Petersburg, where the deaths of some high-school students and cadets were even ascribed to it.