Friday, December 10, 2021

WHY is there a SQUIRREL in It's a Wonderful Life?

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This is an annual mystery which I have never solved. WHY is there a squirrel in the middle of It's a Wonderful Life? Uncle Billy has a p...

🎅BADLY-ANIMATED (but pretty!) CHRISTMAS CARD🎄

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This started out life as a gif, got filed away, and has been resurrected on YouTube. It's incredibly cheesy, but that's part of its ...

🎅🙄SMOKING SANTA!😳🎅

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It wouldn't be Christmas without bizarre Santas smoking pipes.This is from an incredibly weird Christmas puppet show from the 1950s. 
Friday, December 3, 2021

Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby (Official Audio)

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It might be a BIT early for this, but not by much. How many versions have I heard of this Christmas classic by various female singers who al...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Home movie! Grandgirls having a hoot

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  A tiny home movie taken on Bill's phone. As usual, the girls are hilarious! Here's the gif version - cropped with no sound.

Why I Quit AA

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BLOGGER'S NOTE. As I celebrated 31 years of sobriety today, I remembered something I had written WAY back - in 2010, as it turned out. I...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Boyhood photo of Thomas Edison (and hilarious comments from Vintage News!)

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Boyhood photo of Thomas Edison Comments (from The Vintage News) This is what a young thief and con man looks like. A con man and a thief? A...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

PANDEMIC HAIR UPDATE: two years and counting!

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I cannot believe that it has been nearly TWO YEARS since I had a professional hair cut. I was cutting it myself for a while, with a razor co...

🌺The Troll Doll Channel: THE CAROUSEL WALTZ!🌷

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Some of my more gorgeous trolls go for a spin. 
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Stereoscopic images shimmer into life. . .

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    I have had these on file for YEARS and have just made them into a YouTube video, but I kind of like them the way they are. Call them the...

Oh God, this is the BEST video ever.

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No, I mean it. On a relatively crappy day, this was just what I needed.
Monday, November 15, 2021

😲DAISY: "ONE MORE TIME!"😲

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Oh God. This "Daisy" thing - it started out with another video, a creepy thing featuring the FIRST EVER computer to be programmed ...
Friday, November 12, 2021

😳ROBORAMA! Robot imitates human speech: AGAIN!😳

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

I Contain Multitudes: the songs seem to know themselves

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  Bob Dylan    On writing "I Contain Multitudes" I didn’t really have to grapple much. It’s the kind of thing where you pile up ...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells

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The Bells   Edgar Allan Poe   I.         Hear the sledges with the bells—                  Silver bells! What a world of merriment their mel...
Monday, November 8, 2021

The Gorgon in her Lair

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I do not soon forget. In fact - never.  
Sunday, November 7, 2021

🤡PRINCE HARRY JUGGLES HIS BALLS!🤡

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

Ghost Elephants

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Elephant Eternity Elephants walking under juicy-leaf trees Walking with their children under juicy-leaf trees Elephants elephants walking li...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Lost, found. . . and found again: The Elephant Song

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THE ELEPHANT SONG Tong, tong, tong-a-tong, a-tong! That is thc rhythm of the elephant song, As the big grey elephants shuffle along. To the ...