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Today — March 13, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's the Viscount pitching Grave Mood Rings in the new "Insane Signals" podcast, starting at 8:32
And here's a little profile we wrote for the new House of Scream Magazine about our Puerto Rican horror host friend Melevill:
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Feb. 1993.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1984.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Menagerie by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1987 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Days of miracle not yet gone."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sounds almost like an alternative to "Go take a hike."  "Go and catch a falling moose."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's very tiny head is from the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"It takes a slip on a banana peel to jar loose a thought."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.
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Sundials (permalink)
A sundial in a cave showing midnight.  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1968 yearbook.
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