Category: Vugraph

Fortune telling using cards is a popular pastime and profitable industry. Halloween is the time of year where it makes a strong comeback along with other forms of divination, including hovering pendulums, casting runes and gazing into balls made of obsidian or quartz. I’ve always believed in drawing a card from a deck as a…

Don’t Play Bridge with Your Wife is a short 18-minute cinematic gem from 1933, made when bridge reached a notorious peak as a popular household game. (Partially, we can thank Ely Culbertson’s Contract Bridge Blue Book for this.)  The 30s made an interesting time for cinematic history. Gone with the Wind (1939), King Kong (1933),…

The game of “would you rather?” can be a lot of fun (and it’s a great way to propose absurd, rude or gross situations where one option is as bad or worse as the other). What people might not realize when they do it is that it’s a perfect example of a classic thought experiment. …