The thing I like about this feature from 1942 is the hint that Triceratops are doing their part for the defense of America.
I want to see that movie now, of course.
Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.
Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:
"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."
“Our Dinosaurs At War” has just become my favorite documentary/propaganda series which never existed.
You should have heard him during the Olympics. It was all “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” until the floors shook. But then one time I...
…and then when he was drunk, he’d put on his tri-corner hat (naturally) and yell “The British are coming, the British...