Sunday, August 14, 2022

💥SWARMED! Nasty blackbirds on Burnaby Lake💥

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I could do worse than to be swarmed with blackbirds. The pickings have been extremely lean this summer, with maybe 1/10 of the usual number ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

🐟"INSTANT FISH!" Weird WHAM-O ads from the '60s🐠

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Oh, God, these ads. WHAM-O had this aggressive-sounding whip-crack as its signature sound (like an auditory logo), and their products were s...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Victorian Post-Mortem Photography: Readers' Comments from 2012

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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this blog, I'm repeating responses to the post that received the most attention  (125,000+ views ...
Monday, August 8, 2022

"I see dead people": Victorian Post-Mortem Photography (10th anniversary re-issue)

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There's a slightly macabre story about the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, a man so dissipated he expired from chronic alcoholism in his ...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

💗The Troll Doll Channel: TROLL VILLAGE!💜

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The only thing more gratifying than collecting trolls is displaying trolls on my YouTube channel. This has become an aesthetic exercise for ...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

DREAM HORSES

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Friday, August 5, 2022

KNOW YOUR POE: The Cask of Amontillado

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  The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know t...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

KNOW YOUR POE: The Life of Poe? . . . OH, NO!

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(In my recent quest to find a decent or even a complete biography of Poe, I was disappointed - twice. I was upset enough to do something I w...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

KNOW YOUR POE: The Happiest Day

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  The Happiest Day The happiest day–the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I fe...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

KNOW YOUR POE: The Raven

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  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore – While I nodded, n...