Month: January 2016

  • This Day in History: Trading House Scandal Tragedy Disaster

    This Day in History:  Trading House Scandal Tragedy Disaster

    This Day in History:  The Bombay, Singapore, and Hong Kong Trading House Partners Consortium, Limited, Scandal Tragedy Disaster. FOR THE PRESS:  For General Release A brief statement of the deepest and utmost regret from the Bombay, Singapore, and Hong Kong Trading House Partners  Consortium, Limited. Singapore January 23, 1892 It is with the deepest and…

  • Brian De Palma’s Body Double Stalks Creepy, Voyeuristic Arc

    Brian De Palma’s Body Double Stalks Creepy, Voyeuristic Arc

    Brian De Palma’s Body Double stalks a creepy, voyeuristic story arc that treads the inscrutable ground of an actor’s mental and emotional demons. Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984) is one of a long line of films which have breached the sometimes icy, sometimes heated, waters of creeping, watching, stalking and voyeurism.  But who is…

  • FCS Victories Over FBS: Bizarre World of Comparative Scores

    FCS Victories Over FBS:  Bizarre World of Comparative Scores

    In the bizarre world of comparative scores, two teams with FCS victories over FBS teams made a case for having been in the 2015 College Football Playoff. Well, I did say bizarre world.  But both Portland State and The Citadel would have made it all the way to the College Football Playoff, instead of Michigan…