Since I write so many negative things about "those other royals" (or EX-royals, though they continue to cling to the tatters of th...

  You're better OUT, Harry. NOW.

  The world according to Prince Harry! The Duke of Sussex's tips for achieving 'mental fitness' (from the Daily Mail) AIM FOR TH...

Obscure excerpt from an even more obscure linguistic study of "Slavic" language sounds. I left out the sound track and the horribl...

  "Thus, while her husband paints with large brushes on a huge wall surface, his wife, herself a miniature-like little person with her ...

This is why cute cat videos are still a "thing" on the internet.

These are stereoscopic photographs, double images taken from slightly different perspectives, which when viewed through a stereoscope look e...

  Jan. 23, 1936 One Thirty-Two East Seventy-Second Street New York Dear Elizabeth - After much patient waiting I finally was rewarded w...

What can you say about a piece of music you've fallen wildly in love with? Having barely recovered from discovering the Makoto Ozone ver...

I am sorry.  I know I will never stop posting videos of The Dancing Pig . I keep finding new dimensions to this horror, and thus I must shar...

This is a kinescope of (obviously, given the long awkward silences) a live stage show which was typical of very early TV. Nobody knew how to...

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 ...