A great example of retrofuturism. 

  VINTAGE STIFF RUBBER  GINGERBREAD LOOK BOY BANK  BY ROY DES of FLA  EARLY! I am not sure if he was a blank because the  bank slot is not o...

 

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  Something has been bothering me, a lot, and I’ve gone back and forth on posting about it. Originally I was going to make a YouTube comment...

    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...