I made this  slide show from small, grainy photos taken from newspaper morgues about unsolved murders. The headlines on some of t...

A pure white doe in an emerald glade Appeared to me, with two antlers of gold Between two streams, under a laurel's shade,...

  A truly terrible animation - but I couldn't help it.  Watching g reen jello getting violently ill is just too irresistible. 

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885, is widely regarded as the world's first production auto...

Oh my goodness. And they say cats make such good Moms!

The Fiddle and the Drum Joni Mitchell And so once again My dear Johnny my dear friend And so once again you are fightin' us all And...

It's not that I have nothing to say. Quite the opposite. I have too much to say, and have learned to censor myself. It's a sad t...

There is something perfectly intoxicating about these early Maxwell House coffee ads. Whoever came up with that coconut-clopping or bloc...

A typical cartoon ad from the 1950s, with primitive, highly stylized animation. There's no doubt what the product was, which I b...

This woman faked ataxia in order to get insurance payments after getting a flu shot. Inside Edition nearly fell for it, until they follo...

Old film is a time machine - I think we're agreed on that - but never more so when someone has so lovingly restored a film from the ...

Elizabeth Holmes pretends to agree while one of her critics rips her to shreds. Note the foreward hunch with ankle resting on her kn...

Click on bottom right corner to go full-screen/hear the waves!

I know I've posted this before, but I still consider it a work of '60s art, every bit as culturally significant and evocative...

BREAKING MEWS! Local cat has never been fed, EVER! Cruelty charges pending

"A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample...

It strikes me that all these portraits of women (well-to-do women, apparently, who could afford sumptuous gowns and having their port...

Someone, somewhere, some Mad Man of the 1950s, must have thought this would be a good idea for an ad campaign. And there were at lea...

That adorable little Mexican girl in the taco commercial!

(Blogger's note. Yargghh!  I see this sort of thing all the time, posted over and over and over again, in the comments section o...