When I tried to find hurdy-gurdy music on YouTube, I first had to wade through innumerable versions of Donovan's lame '60s song, w...

Now this one is strange, very very strange. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the tromba marina , that huge horn-like thing tha...

This video proves that sometimes the ridiculous is. . . sublime.

"I had ECT yesterday, & the main thing that I remember about it is (other than hardly anything at all) that when they dragged me...

Whoa, boy! What do we have here?  Yesterday I started digging around for info on medieval/baroque instruments. There were some lulus. Cr...

Since this is a lovely and balmy day, Let's look at a certain man today. Not just any man, you see But a man who is funny, ho h...

This was another instance of coming in the back door: I was trying to find the name of one of those old penny-arcade flip machines where y...

OK, this is really a weird one (as if my other posts aren't - ). I've been collecting oddities to write about, but it was such a ra...

As usual, this started out as something else: I got thinking of a documentary film I saw years and years ago, in French and overdubbed wi...

A friend and colleague of mine,  Matt Paust, recently passed along a link to a post on Open Salon by Ann Nichols. It recounted the ordeal...

( Author's Note : believe it or not, this whole story poured out in one blurt this morning. I have no idea how long it is, but it ...