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. Not long after moving here, I was looking at a cemetery about a mile from our house, and found the grave of a likely relative. Likely, be...

. It makes sense that I should post this somewhere I can point to it, since I still do that. Up to now, I've simply given a link to som...

. filtered through a radioactive Michael Jackson impersonator — title and tune at end You still together? Did your cable come back? How ...

. Back in 2003, a friend in a newsgroup (who I haven't met) queried: Where could I find the "Canterbury Carol"? This was ...

. Minas Morgul was Minas Ithil Now it's Minas Morgul, not Minas Ithil. Now the shadows grow in old Minas Ithil On a moonless night, ...

. (to the tune of Paperback Writer, by Lennon & McCartney) Pasty basement dwellers, won't you view my blog? I had eighty hits la...

. Okay, not really. But here's the thing. I get daily emails from the Mechanical Music Digest, which consist of the day's postings t...

. Oh, say, did you see On the truck that just passed? Some poor star-spangled banner Is waving its last. With six stripes and nine stars T...

. AMOS VAN HOESEN Edda and I were kids together And she bugged and pestered me, Put things in my desk and gave me wedgies Until I gave...

. The greatest, most glorious retraction I ever read ran on December 17, 2003, on the front page of the first section of the Virginian-Pilo...

Here's two minutes of, for me, pure unadulterated joy from an old LP of songs from the Mickey Mouse Club. Buddy Ebsen, just then wor...

The Dust is Whirling in the Dust Arthur Kraft — Private First Class Arthur Kraft, at the time — painted this during World War II. It wa...

Toon River Anthology, part 9: BARNABAS "BARNEY" GOOGLE Why am I summoned To return to the world To be among men? Years ago, I want...

by Randy and me, from 1980 (odd panels by me; more detail at flickr): . .

well, I'm back . Oh, yeah, we're back from China. Flickr photoset here (~340 pix): Shorter flickr photo subset here (~120 pix) bec...

public service I made this form when I was an academic secretary, and updated it recently so it wouldn't look like it came off of a dot-...

Toon River Anthology, part 8 NO NAME* [*in the Bandar tongue] I was born to follow the proud destiny of my father And his father, and hi...

my wish for you What are you waiting for? Start living it up! .

adjusted I was looking at a Mona Lisa book and thinking that she looks sort of green-ochre. I leafed through the volume, which has x-rays an...

a clown's clown I was reminded today of a Superman episode where a clown goes bad (yeah, yeah, I know) and falls off of a roof. Superman...