I have a history with this piece. My father had a large and eclectic collection of recordings - we'd call them vinyl LPs now - repres...

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It all started with wanting a bird. Wanting a bird sort of came out of the blue, except that it didn’t. Our cat had just died at ag...

It's that time again, and I'm wondering WHY it is that no one seems to like fruitcake. Fruitcake is festive. Fruitcake is frie...

Can't find good Christmas gifs no-how: I have a whole file of Mad Men, another of Anthony Perkins (the good kind like a small video...

Nobody believes me, but this is where the Muppets got started: in commercials. They did two-or-three-second ads for some kind of coffee...

This started off as a search for snow globe gifs. They all looked cheesy, and for some reason Elvis kept coming up. So the search was o...

I do try to get into the season. Not always easy, for there's something in me that resists. It's not just the Charlie Brown feelin...

  Kung Fu Fighting, chicken style When good turkeys turn bad. . . Stereophonic suit poop. At l...

Oh my, oh my. Went to my granddaughter Erica's Christmas concert this afternoon - she appeared, grave and serious, in a gorgeous blac...

Dylan Thomas was once quoted as saying, “There is no gaiety so gay as the gaiety of grief.” Somehow I sort of know what that means, ...

This is an odd little clip. I can't find out much about Coronet Blue because there are only fragments on YouTube. I probably never e...

This is one of those TV shows that I thought I'd made up or dreamed about. Turns out it was on for one season or something. I'll h...

I confess I never watched a single episode of T. H. E. Cat. I think I heard my brother refer to it once, so I knew about it. "Oh boy...

Kathleen Wilhelmina Gunning GUNNING, Kathleen Wilhelmina (nee Hitching) - Pe...