Tuesday, March 31, 2026

My Gabor-rant: when Dr. Mate stole my stuff

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I found this letter (written in 2008) deep in the files, and I doubt that I ever sent it to Gabor, but I needed to write it  at the time, an...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Guru of Gloom and Doom: Amazon Reviews of Gabor Mate's The Myth of Normal

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My counselor suggested this book after hearing many reviews about it, and 1/3 of the way through or so, I had to put it down. It was very ha...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Gabor Mate: Guru of Gloom and Doom meets Hapless Harry

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  'Trauma expert' Gabor Mate says he bitterly REGRETS controversial Prince Harry interview because of 'demeaning, dismissive...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Rosamunde by Schubert

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Shosty's Waltz!

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Bill Prouten on Sax 2!

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Bill Prouten on Sax!

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

The Waltzing Cat by Leroy Anderson!

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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Meowy Cats SING!

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Space Cats — Magic Fly

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OK  THEN! If anyone is still reading this blog, you'd notice I'm mostly posting clips from YouTube. There's a reason for this! I...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

NBC Peacock Logo (this scared the hell out of me as a kid!)

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Underdog!

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Friday, January 2, 2026

The! Ice! Is! Gonna! Break! Christopher Walken's Finest Moment

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Peacock Display!

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William Shatner: It's a weird world. AND I LOVE IT!💗💗💗

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Crunchy Cat Luna: CRUNCH THAT KIBBLE!!

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It's SUNDAY, SUNDAY (Much better than FRIDAY!)

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Songs of the Pogo: Plinky, plunkety plank!

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The PATHE ROOSTER: Best Film Logo EVER!

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  This is the 20th time I've tried to post this clip! I seemed to have forgotten how, then I remembered, then I deleted it. Now this SEE...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

The Adventures of Superman (1959): 💥SUPERMAN to the RESCUE!💥

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PSSHHHHHHT! Superman comes in for a landing. This show was so primitive that it's laughable now, but we ate it up. George Reeves didn...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Love, Health and Loss (. . . and Beethoven!)

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Alrighty then, I wasn't going to either make this video or post it, but my return to Beethoven (and music in general), no doubt due to t...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

So did I take my health for granted? (The short answer: YES.)

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OK then, I guess I break my own rules sometimes, regarding oversharing and droning on and on about health matters. (I won't say "is...
Monday, December 1, 2025

The gaiety of grief

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  No less a legend than Dylan Thomas once wrote that "there is no gaiety so gay as the gaiety of grief." When I learned that a man...

Lonely Hearts and Fractured Minds

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I recently deleted a couple of blog entries that were just too depressing (read: too real). I badly needed a distraction, so I decided to w...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain

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  Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages we were pressed In love...