Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Friday, January 29, 2021

A Techno-Pastoral Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1950: The Chestnut Plague

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I am writing in late January about October of 1950, well after North America's Christmastime "chestnuts roasting over an open fire ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Postblogging Technology, October 1950, II: The Shogun and the Surprise

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R_. C_., The Mayflower, Washington, D.C. Dear Father: You find your darling Ronnie quite recovered from both her flu and her "tradition...
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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Postblogging Technology, October 1950, I: Double Brain with Garlic Butter

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R_. C_. Shaughnessy,  Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well here is the latest missive from the "unstable Pacific Rim." I'm a bi...
Friday, January 8, 2021

The Bishop's Sea (With a Literary Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1950): The Fishing Event Horizon and the Great Forgetting

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 Robert E. Howard was born on 22 January 1906, the son of an itinerant doctor, which doesn't sound like a real job, but, then, we're...
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Friday, January 1, 2021

A Pseudo-Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1950: A Watershed Year for Pseudo-Science?

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  Three of the biggest pseudo-scientific books of the Twentieth Century were published (in English) 1950. For example, Immanuel Velikovsky...
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Postblogging Technology, September 1950, 2: Pee Before You Go!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: September rolls to its end, and with it the peasants' attempt to challenge the migh...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

Postblogging Technology, September 1950, I: "This Calls for Champagne All Around"

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here's  your friendly letter from the frontlines of the war-to-come, the land of cam...
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