Bentley and I have a bedtime ritual which never varies. He has to beg for (no, ASK for his treats) by raising his paw. Undignified for a cat...

Newly Unearthed Time Capsule is Just Full Of Useless Old Crap TOPEKA, KS—A deep sense of disappointment gripped the citizens of Topeka, KS, ...

  (PLEASE NOTE. This entire post is a repeat from 2014, so you'd think it would be hopelessly out of date. It isn't. Since I publish...

  Why egg tubes? Because why not. Somehow the infomercial looks a whole lot better than this: detumescent appendages made of squashed-up egg...

  For several decades now I've been chasing down a Stravinsky album called  Favorite Short Pieces . It had some gorgeously eccentric stu...

This plastic pup isn't up to the standards of OTHER plastic pups of the day: Gaylord (a basset hound who SLOWLY walked up the stairs) or...

And the seal rolls over, just like that. . . 

In Soviet Russia, Forbidden Music Was Smuggled on X-Ray Records  Music may transcend borders but, in an oppressive place like Soviet Russia,...

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's £11m Montecito mansion is engulfed by foul smell that 'is like offal rotting in the sun' caused...

I love how people in the past predicted the future. The future that is now OUR past. For some reason, this almost always involved cooking an...

"EVERYBODY!!!!"

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 ...