There are strange, strange things that happen, things so inexplicable you can only understand them after years have gone by. The camera zoom...

TOM UTLEY: How to beat the blues - award yourself £10 every time you hear the phrase 'mental health' on TV or radio By Tom Utley for...

How can you mend a broken heart? It helps if Harold Lloyd is your doctor. In spite of the heartbreak of my failed novel (and let's not l...

This excerpt is from a much longer, and at times kind of tedious, bio of George Gershwin. The best part of it is the way they use paintings ...

My cat doesn't do stuff like this. But then - we don't have a mail slot, and it would be hard for him to get the mail out of the box...

My trolls are a great comfort to me in this time of trial. But they're taking over my office. . .

Abbotsford News, June 11, 2012 Lauren Gunning (pushing wagon) and sister Erica were among those participating in the Telus Walk to Cure Diab...

My dolls are very generous with their time (meaning, all they do is sit there being dolls), so they were happy to do this historic re-enactm...

Puppets are humans in effigy, which is disturbing enough in itself. But this little blonde girl is beyond creepy - she looks like someone I ...

This somehow ended up as a comment on a YouTube video, but it poured out with such force that I thought I would place it here and not just l...

From Golden Girls to Sue Ann Nivens to dozens and maybe even hundreds of appearances elsewhere - including a sitcom she starred in before I ...

SMASH!!                            

Or else.

This is one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen! I cannot imagine how long it took to set up, or if they needed different takes. ...

I swear, this is my LAST. Even with the new variant. 

A Christmas classic, taken several years ago. Bentley still slips under the tree and hides, or even tries to climb it. Last night he got his...

Children's programming hit a peak of surrealism in the early 1950s, when puppet shows abounded. These look like marionettes, with great ...

Would it be Christmas without bizarre Santas? Not MY kind of Christmas.

This is one of my favorite cat videos of all time. A seasonal favorite. My cat has never done this, but he''s known to go a bit wack...

I love capybaras! What's not to love about a 200-pound rodent who squeaks and squeals like a giant guinea pig? Their eyes and nostrils a...

  Mother of Muses Mother of Muses, sing for me Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea Sing of the lakes and the nymphs of the fores...

One of my favorite handmade animations. 

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...