I have some serious issues with the two people who came to my door on a freezing-cold evening, right at supper hour, and said, "Thank...

Psalm 74 A maskil of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? Remember...

My favorite version of our national anthem. Even without words, it expresses so much about what it is to be Canadian - with breathtaking gli...

 

Anyone who follows this blog (and, admittedly, that would be mostly me) will notice I come around to certain subjects on a cyclic basis. Hav...

There’s an ad that comes on TV during the news (which I still watch to see my daughter the reporter), I can’t remember what the ad is for, a...

 

My Grumpy Troll Sextette sings an old-timey tune, while Hugo the white-haired Lothario tries to woo the fair Simone. This leads to bitter ri...

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...

 

Links to my YouTube channel, YouTube, and Blogger Margaret Gunning magunning@telus.net https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd9Gtf_dCA7fkyDE62Z2...

              The SLINK-U-LATOR!

  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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