“And just this thought of like these archetypes, but it's the kind of stuff you and I talk about so much of these boxes and labels and...

The only thing I love more than creepy old ads are bizarre old silent films. I will admit I "borrow" a lot from Pics and Portraits...

  I live for these things.

Just something I love, which I haven't heard for a very long time. Stumbled on it again while watching a harrowing documentary on the Du...

One of my more exotic custom trolls, from Lucretia's Lair. Does he have magical powers? Well, what do you think?

It's hard to imagine that, back in the day, no one thought clowns were the least bit scary - not even Clarabell, the clown that haunted ...

What can I say? I never knew my trolls could sing like this. Wakes me up in the middle of the night. I LOVE one of the comments a person lef...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'trying to create an alternative woke royal family' after th...

The same, only backwards.

I am still trying to figure out WHO this guy is and WHY he is so upset. In the olden days, we would have called him a Luddite, anyone who wa...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

 

  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...