by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on October 31, 2018 It’s Halloween, the day when, according to legend, the veil between this world and the spirit realm is at its most delicate. A fitting time to remember Mark Twain’s love for a good ghost story. “Witches” from...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on April 20, 2017 Mark Twain’s world lecture tour in the mid-1890s, which he recounts in Following the Equator, was generally unpleasant for him. Not only did the humiliating stigma of bankruptcy that prompted the voyage haunt him,...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on October 23, 2019 As with other recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Dave Chappelle (who receives the prize this Sunday at the Kennedy Center) has a few basic things in common with the award’s namesake. The most...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 12th, 2018 Although I generally like Chris Rock as a comedian, one of his jokes has always rubbed me the wrong way. Rock told the joke back in 1999 as part of the Kennedy Center’s program honoring Richard Pryor as the...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 3, 2017 In marking the beginning of Black History Month the other day, President Donald Trump commended Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I...