Why is everything so bittersweet this time of year? This Glade commercial from 2010 caused great hilarity in its day, when my grandkids Cait...

An all-time YouTube classic, from back in the days when YouTube was all about sharing the fun. This cat must enjoy the sensation of being sw...

This is an annual mystery which I have never solved. WHY is there a squirrel in the middle of It's a Wonderful Life? Uncle Billy has a p...

This started out life as a gif, got filed away, and has been resurrected on YouTube. It's incredibly cheesy, but that's part of its ...

It wouldn't be Christmas without bizarre Santas smoking pipes.This is from an incredibly weird Christmas puppet show from the 1950s. 

  

Who says the roof has to be pointy? This one might be harder to construct than it looks, however. It has a certain house-of-cards lo...

When I began to research Harold Lloyd to write my novel The Glass Character, there was almost nothing about him on the internet. The...

Harold Lloyd was a Christmas fanatic. He was a fanatic about a lot of things, including painting, h...

Up to now I haven't even posted any pictures from our vacation in Maui. We got back shortly before  Christmas, and it was the bigges...

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