5 Awesome Things With Inexplicably Bad Reputations

Read it, it has GUNS. And SPACE. And SNAKE OIL.

Actually the very nice associate editor of Collector's Weekly, Lisa, liked something on this LJ and emailed me with an interesting article about the history of snake oil, and said I should use it in an article. I agreed that it was interested and said I would. That was like... over two years ago now? That's how long it took for the little notebook page with "SNAKE OIL??" on it to fill up with enough entries to make an article out of.

More work goes into this stuff than most people think, yo.