https://drsusanblock.com Dr. Susan Block's Journal Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:22:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-family-history https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-family-history#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:27:10 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=175603 by Dr. Susan Block. Collages are collisions of images and emotions. This “Family/History” collage is made up of images of my beloved Max, featuring his early life in Rome, Naples and Genoa, Italy; the great ship Italia that took Pr. Maximillian R. Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri (11/8/1943 – 5/13/2025), aka “Mickey,” aka “Captain Max,” and […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-family-history/feed 18 https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-valentine-2024 https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-valentine-2024#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:50:52 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=110920   by Dr. Susan Block       Friends, Romans, Countrywomen, lend me your ears, I cum to bury Valentine’s Day, not to praise it… Sorry to mangle Marc Antony’s classic eulogy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, but Valentine’s Day is fake news. A sugar-coated confection of disinformation concocted by the early Catholic Church, developed by the Victorian […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-valentine-2024/feed 9 https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2020 https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2020#comments Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:30:24 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=87627 Length 01:23:39 Date: Feb. 15th, 2020 by Dr. Susan Block. Brothers and Sisters, pagans and Pan paniscus–bonobo sapiens, whippers and snappers, heart-shaped butts and ancient history nuts… Friends, Romans, Countrywomen, lend me your ears… I come to bury Valentine’s Day… Not to praise it… Sorry to mangle Shakespeare’s words, but here’s the deal: Valentine’s Day […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2020/feed 12 https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2016 https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2016#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:30:11 +0000 http://drsusanblock.com/?p=52258 Length 1:35:37 Date: Feb. 20, 2016 by Dr. Susan Block It’s a whip-cracking, she-wolf-howling, floggerific Lupercalia to whip all other Lupercalias’ horny, heart-shaped butts into shape. Date-wise, we’re actually a tad late for the Lupercal. That’s because Capt’n Max and I were up at UC Berkeley for Valentine’s Day (the sanitized, Catholicized, Hallmark remake of […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/lupercalia-2016/feed 14