A particular aspect of Victorian culture was the sidesaddle. For the sake of modesty, women were not allowed to ride astride - such things w...

This is a bit of a classic: Bentley trying to be right inside a TV program. It was a Nature of Things documentary about CATS, and though he ...

Part Two of the Orson Welles wine ad that made me laugh for the first time in YEARS.

"AHHHH! The French. . ." I found this gem late at night, and COULD NOT stop laughing, until tears rolled down my face. Then it str...

What can I say? You could build some mighty muscles lifting one of these.

Come up. Come up. Come ALL THE WAY UP . . . to Kool. Or lung cancer.

  I can say nothing about this gorgeous work of art  (so I'll say something): it symbolizes every summer I ever spent at the cottage, sa...

This few seconds of film has haunted me for years. I did not give it a context, because I felt it was more powerful if I didn't - and Yo...

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 This entire post is a repeat from 2014, so you'd think it would be hopelessly out of date.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...