I am in a mood of mild but pervasive dread, and I'll tell you why. I have not had my eyes tested in so many years, I don't even ...

       A stunning example of Baird's pioneering 30-line TV system, first broadcast in 1930.   (But who had a TV back then - ??)

I first heard this truly exquisite version of one of my favorite folk tunes many years ago on the radio, and tried to track it down for year...

A video from my "troll doll channel", which is a subset of ferociousgumby. I LOVE the Double Rainbow guy!  (Note: for those who ma...

' Though Christopher Walken insists he had a swell childhood, it looks as if he endured some nasty treatment as a child actor. Here Jerr...

Clarabell the Clown throws a HUGE temper tantrum on Howdy Doody. Buffalo Bob has to physically restrain him. Clowns were creepy then, too.  ...

The Dumont Television Network was a very big deal in the 1940s - the ONLY deal, for that matter, with programming so crude it's hard to ...

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I have tried to remain as apolitical as possible over the years, mainly because there are elements of politics that make me so physically an...

The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown...

Vintage Troll Figure. Tab Troll? Russ Troll? Dam Troll? Item Information Condition: Used Price: US $1,000.00    (approximately C $1,274.20)...

Clyde Crashcup was one of my favorite childhood cartoon series, and it wasn't even a series. It was a subset of the most DREADFUL cartoo...

  Happier New Year from Margaret and Bentley! 

Somehow I missed this one! I had to blink twice when I saw it. There were many other suggestions for "safe sex" that made no sens...

When things get grim, I gots to get me some Sunflower Farm baby goat videos. And kittens that are bigger than the kids! I am beginning to th...

Merry Christmas from The Blogger (and Bentley)!

Of all the horrendously dated, unenlightened videos I've ever seen, this one takes the cake - and the candles, too. In fact, it takes th...

 

Ye-e-e-e-e-ss, it's those crazy, wacky chipmunks again, singing The Chipmunk Song, which sounds about as festive as hitting yourself on ...

Weird dream #496. This one seems more pandemic-related, like everything these days. I had a hair appointment AT LAST, after nearly a year of...

This is one of my loveliest duck videos from Como Lake. Pure poetry on the water. Being in nature is the one thing keeping me more-or-less s...

 

Most of my videos get, like, 27 views if I'm lucky (they're a "success" if they break ten), but this one is fast approachi...

YESSSS , it's the Hula Cats Christmas - again. The cat singing or meowing Silent Night was the inspiration for the Jingle Cats - or shou...

I haven't even watched this yet, but the title was irresistible! I love this woman's videos - she's a costume historian from Pol...

  This was on the back page of a teeny little 2020 calendar that I got free from a realtor. You no longer get free calendars, but just as I ...

FINALLY, at long bloody last, this has posted, and I think it's OK. It was totally mangled by YouTube. When  it had been up for 2 years,...

More Mandarin ducks on Burnaby Lake! Since there are NO birds in the back yard (a bear once again ripped our feeders apart), this makes up f...

 

I took 45 minutes of footage of this incredible duck sighting on Burnaby Lake. Broke it up into 8 videos, all of which were good enough not ...

My cat Bentley has done some strangely wonderful things, and he tends to be smarter and more sensitive and tuned-in than any of the other fa...

  Amélie Diéterle (20 February 1871 – 20 January 1941) was a French actress and opera singer. She was one of the popular actresses of the Be...

OK. . . it's time for this one again. Somehow (unlike me) it never gets old.

  I can't say for sure. But his ever-open glassine orbs give me the shivers late at night, when he seldom blinks and sometimes grunts, n...

Trump praised QAnon during meeting about keeping the Senate  BLOGGER'S NOTE. Not everyone feels safe clicking on links, no matter how sc...

    I would normally go all soft and sentimental at this time of year, but I don't know. . . this year it's hard. I don't need t...

In times of trouble, in times of horror and dismay, what do I turn to? Old ads, of course. And these are classics from the Rocky and Bullwin...

A Ray of Hope The Rascals Most people got soul if they want to try Let love be your goal and let it fly 'Cause it's easy to hate and...