Not too many people know this, but I'll tell you right now: Dylan Thomas was a really bad writer. He crammed adjectives together in a wa...

This is one of the rare videos where I appear in person. These little trolls are adorable, but as usual I have no place to put them. I love ...

In case you think things haven't changed. . . they have. Back in the day, women wore a lot of armour under their clothing. Even the slen...

"Methigel is extremely palatable," the directions on the tube of medication said. "To stimulate taste interest place a small...

I've written about The Outer Limits before - I always thought it was far scarier and even more thought-provoking than the more-celebra...

I'm back in a Hitchcock cycle again, kind of like the way my orbit takes me around to Dylan, Gershwin and Poe (and a more mixed bunch yo...

This lovely domestic white dove has joined the flock of wild pigeons on Burnaby Lake. Originally we saw TWO white doves, and I swear I  saw ...

This was one of those rare sights that makes birdwatchers turn cartwheels of joy. It's what a fellow birdwatcher called "a gatherin...

This is just damn funny! I haven't laughed out loud at a YouTube video in a long time. It has all become oh-so-earnest, everybody wantin...

This is an example of advertisement as a high art form. Everything about this ad is beautiful, as if it was conceived and directed by a mast...

Tuesday, Nov 8th 2022   SARAH VINE: Being a doctor is supposed to be about helping sick people get bette...

Hamster, frog, hamster, frog. These images are from an old British TV show of the '60s, Tales of the Riverbank. This was a sort of basta...

What I love best about these early Fleischer cartoons is how inanimate objects are animate - in other words, animated. Things suddenly sprin...

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ALL RIIIIIIGHT! This may just be the BEST two minutes in all of YouTube. Here Jack Gibbons plays the HELL out of Gershwin`s first hit song,...

I have listened to this a thousand times, and never get tired of it! Gibbons is considered the master of Gershwin's piano pieces, mainly...

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This is an incredible shot I accidentally took while trying to film the moon, which was glowing orange due to local forest fires. In the slo...

  Some dreamy images of the house I grew up in, as it looks today. The pale blue is so beautiful (it used to be yellow), and the outside has...

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This came out of the blue! But not really, because a few years ago I got an email from someone who had just bought my childhood home on 20 V...

Boots look very nice on pussy cats. (purrrrrrrrr) The photo I used for the thumbnail is Bentley's "mug shot", the picture tha...