I think this is my second attempt to portray in photo collage what I think is an astounding chan...

Arsenic and old (green) lace    (Excerpted from an article in Racked, a now-defunct historical website) In 1...

 Flee to me, remote elf--Sal a dewan desired;  Now is a Late-Petal Era.  We fade: lucid Iris, red Rose of Sharon;  Goldenrod a silly...

I don't know how I've lived up 'til now without hearing this song! Weird Al has been around forever, my kids grooved to &quo...

(From eBay page for Lucretia's Lair)  This is "Candy". She is a vintage Scandia house troll doll 2-1/2...

The car that looks like a mini-vac.

Primal Pete Seeger. His last song. I just watched, for the second time, the PBS bio of Seeger, and could not help but shudder at how muc...

This is actually much better without the sound. Lame Bossa Nova music does not add anything. How I wish they had left in the natural sou...

Ye-e-e-e-e-s, it's those crazy old guys, the Lotharios of the locker room, the Munsingwear Men! Here we provide you with more ...

I don't often publish long personal essays on this blog, unless something is really bugging me.  And something really is. I hav...