Well, gentle readers, today is the Wednesday where we anxiously wait for 2008 to become 2009. Since my edition of The Wonderland of Knowledge will become 41 years old today, it only seems appropriate that this Wednesday’s edition examine what Volume 9 has to say about “New Year’s Day.”
It was short, and didn’t have any pictures [...]

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I know what you’re asking yourself, and yes, behind the DVR alert that is Richard Karn.

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Recently I’ve been listening to episodes of the Groucho Marx radio show “You Bet Your Life” from archive.org during my morning commute. In the December 21, 1949 episode (in case you are writing a book about my blog and need to cite your sources) Groucho interviews a contestant from Holland and they talk about Santa Claus [...]

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The Wonderland of Knowledge deals with all topics, whether they be large (World War II) or small (hummingbirds (and I’m assuming here, because the person who threw out the seven volumes that I have either threw it out earlier or kept Volume 7 for some reason).
With this in mind, and because it’s just plain apropo for December [...]

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For the past few years, my girlfriend Mo Cahill and I have sent out elaborate e-Christmas cards to our friends and family. The past two years have featured animated Flash cartoons in which we save Santa Claus and thus, Christmas, but this year we decided to try something a little different.
We decided to cover that [...]

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The video itself is pretty self-explanatory and it also kicks off RamseyEss.com’s Deluge of Holiday Related Things. Enjoy in moderation.

Click here to see it larger, or click here to see it on YouTube.

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With the economy in the shape that it currently is, it’s important to remember that old axim, “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” What does 1968’s The Wonderland of Knowledge have to teach 2008’s Wall Street?
Let’s take a look at it’s five page entry on “The Board of Trade.” Despite the [...]

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I’m pleased to introduce a new segment here at RamseyEss.com: Famous Hamsters in History (brought to you by State Farm Insurance), celebrating it’s seventh appearance on the site!
David: Former Member of A Flock of Seagulls
 

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In case this website isn’t providing you with enough content on it’s own, allow me to present you with two exciting new options to get even more material culled from my brain.
A. If you’re on Facebook you can now tell everyone that you’re a fan of my website by clicking the following link: this link [...]

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(I was originally going to call this post “A Post for Book Lovers” but I don’t see any point in kidding anyone. I’m writing this for one person and one person alone: my favorite author and secret crush: Sarah Vowell. You might like it too, though.)
In college, as we were reading the classic Melville novel [...]

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