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flickr hates you part 2 . Let's see if I can finish this tonight... Well, that's the lot, so far. It takes a significant part of an ...

flickr hates you part I . Flickr takes action often to keep people from viewing my photos there. God knows why. You'd think they would...

Jukebox for January 11, 2009 Ben Light was another musical master who worked within the field of "Party Records." He has a handf...

Jukebox for December 22, 2008 EVERYBODY WANTS MY FANNY by Benny Bell Everyone is out to get my Fanny Everybody wants to see my Fanny Everybo...

Joshing with Cal Stewart About 1975 I was visiting family in Brookings, SD, and my aunt dropped me off at a little museum on the campus. The...

Toon River Anthology part 4 POPEYE THE SAILOR I played me part, see? I ate me spinach and saved me girl And helped the kiddies and told ...

the Bad Humor man First you'll hear somebody snarling, Then a clash of cacophanous bells. Frozen dill pickes and vinegarsicles Are what ...

Toon River Anthology part 3 ANNIE WARBUCKS "Daddy" made me feel loved and welcome. He even got rid of that wife of his Wh...

Toon River Anthology part 2 PHILLIP WINSLOW Dottie and I saw him in the window, A small puppy, looking helplessly at us Canting his he...

Toon River Anthology part 1 (originally from The Comics Curmudgeon ) PRIVATE BEETLE BAILEY I trembled between them. There was no escap...

Cheer up! Smile! There were so many cheery, upbeat songs in the Depression. And there were some downbeat ones as well. This is the best one ...

tiny aspirations (Picture snagged from WFMU's "Beware of the Blog") That's where it started. They sold the little record p...

morbid makeover In one of my last photo expeditions to local graveyards around West Springfield, I took pictures of photos of loved ones tha...

here's a fine how-do-you-do I've raved before about the 1970 Bell Telephone Hour recording of "The Mikado" in which Grouch...

two great tastes We all love middle English, and we all love legacy comic strips, whose creators have moved on to that great bullpen in the ...

from memory My prepared cutting for theater auditions in recent years has been a composite speech taken from various utterances of a charact...

charlie's apocalypse . [The scenario has just described a brief subliminal of Chaplin being chased around a corner by a cop as The Bomb ...

I'm pretty sure that this was written in the summer of 1971, while waiting for my friend Dave to come back to his house. I waited becaus...

While fetching a copy of FitzGerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" for my iPod , I happened to distract myself with Project Gute...

glory Leonardo DaVinci writes: OF THE WAY OF REPRESENTING A BATTLE. First you must represent the smoke of artillery mingling in the air with...