The above title is from the Black Mass performed by Boris Karloff
in a classic 1934 horror film. An illustration —
Sunday, November 12, 2023
“Cum grano salis”
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Fake Religion
(A companion-piece to Fake Eliot.)
The President at Rutgers on Sunday —
“Point number one:
When you hear someone longing for the ‘good old days,’
take it with a grain of salt. (Laughter and applause.)
Take it with a grain of salt.”
Boris Karloff as a modernist architect in a 1934 horror film —

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Monday, May 12, 2014
Mass Appeal
For those disappointed by the cancellation
of this evening’s Black Mass at Harvard,
here is a somewhat less exciting substitute.
See also Peter J. Cameron + Magic.
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