Quote of the day
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Marshall Fishwick

Born: July 5, 1923
Died: May 22, 2006 (aged 82)
Bio: Marshall William Fishwick was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture.
Known for:
- Seven Pillars of Popular Culture (1985)
- Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture (2006)
- Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace (1999)
- Popular Culture in a New Age (2002)
- The Virginia Tradition (1956)