I'm sure someone else has already pointed this out, but Delaware was a slave state. It did not join the Confederacy, though.

Good lord, I had never seen "Love is a Dream" before and it completely wrecked me. Spent the last half hour crying on the couch. I miss Hartman (and now Hooks) so damn much.

Reading Hampton Sides' Blood and Thunder about Kit Carson. Just finished Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star. Month of bloody Westerns, apparently.

Winner winner.

I just read Lonesome Dove a month ago and loved the absolute hell out of it. Never wanted it to end, but I've been keeping myself from reading the rest of the series so I don't overwhelm myself with McMurtry. Will definitely need to pick this one up, though!

I was thrilled to see Philipp Meyer's "The Son" get named a finalist for the Fiction Pulitzer. It was a spectacular novel, but I never saw much buzz around it.

For anyone that cares, John Green's Crash Course video series has a great entry on all this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

This movie is fantastic. I show it to my film classes all the time.

Year of Penny!

"I'm Bobby Five" is the greatest Mad Men line of all time.