I had a very strange dream about Harold Lloyd.  I was listening to some gospel music, or rather watching it performed live, and it was...

Oscar, reclining and reflective, begins to dream. He dreams he is in a vast concert hall. . .  . . . playing Gershwin's ...

The gigantic black bear that terrorized the small town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, holding its citizens hostage for a tense tw...

Hello, and welcome to the silly hour. Or, at least, the silly story of the week. I didn't get to see this bear, and yet, in some remo...

I had almost forgotten about this monstrosity, yet another self-playing musical contraption from Siegfried's Museum in Rudesheim, Ger...

Having finally found a much better video of the automaton-orchestrion from Siegfried's Museum, I wondered if I should completely rewr...

I have yet to see any really decent video of Siegfried's Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments in Rudesheim, Germany. It looks lik...

Welcome to my nightmare . One of my continuing feverish obsessions is with, what, old stuff? Old stuff connected to music, to m...

Not long ago I posted a long screed about how horrible name-brand cheddar has become. Over the years, it's gradually morphe...

Local authors fume as Bezos holds secret Santa Fe retreat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos watches a from the wings during the June 18 launch of ...