Joe Knowles Walks away from Civilization
On August 4th, 1913 Joe Knowles waved good-bye to on-lookers, and to modern civilization, and walked into the woods. He was dressed only in a cotton loin cloth (which he later took…
Odd This Day: The Greely Expedition Survivors Rescued
On this day, June 22, in 1884, the surviving men of the Greely Expedition were rescued from Cape Sabine. The USS Proteus in Lady Franklin Bay. In 1881 Adolphus Greely…
Odd This Day: The Bear Flag Revolt Occurs in Alta California
On this day, June 14, 1846, The Republic of California was established in the Bear Flag Revolt The Bear Flag Revolt Monument in Sonoma, California In the spring of 1846,…
May 25, 1876 – Adam Worth steals a recently discovered Gainsborough portrait, keeps it from the Pinkertons for over 25 years
On this day in 1876, the recently re-discovered and insanely valuable portrait of Lady Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire disappeared without a trace from a gallery in London. It would…
Odd This Day: The rhino seen in Albrect Durer’s illustration arrives in Lisbon at the Belem Tower, becomes a sensation
On this day in 1515 a magnificent beast arrived in Portugal from the far east, a nearly mythical creature unseen in Europe for a thousand years. This one rhinoceros lived a short life, but his…
Caption/credit: British crown jewels, circe 1870. Source: Wikimedia commons
Odd This Day: Irish adventurer Thomas Blood, disguised as a priest, (almost) steals the British crown jewels
On this day in 1671, a bold and daring attempt to steal the British crown jewels was narrowly thwarted, adding to a long list of bold, daring, and thwarted crimes perpetrated by one “Colonel” Thomas Blood.
Invocations: In Praise of Folly
In seeking inspiration for Odd Salon FOLLY, we looked to the words of Desidirous Erasmus and the intimate link between folly to happiness and to wisdom, and to the very "play of life".
Invocations: Seek & Ye Shall Transform
The author Robert Louis Stevenson mused on the idea of El Dorado as the ultimate unobtainable dream, a stand in for all of those personal quests in our lives where the perfect version always remains out of reach.
Invocations: Intercourse of Minds
Our memories are tricky things, adapting and evolving, sometimes unduly influenced by outside sources. Our own minds often can not be trusted to hold anything related to objective reality. But in a essay written in 2013 for the New York Review of books, neurologist Oliver Sacks, himself the author of many wonderful explorations of memory and loss, wrote on what is perhaps a silver lining.
Sketched in profile by the author himself, this Cthulhu doesn't exude planet-destroying rage. But maybe he's still in deathly repose patiently awaiting an opportunity to pounce.
February 1928, Chicago “The Call of Cthulhu” by H. P. Lovecraft is First Published
In February 1928 Weird Tales magazine publishes "The Call of Cthulhu" and Lovecraft's most celebrated story narrowly escaped the scrap heap.
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