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. This is from a seven-inch LP that was sent out to retailers to promote the Titano "Sounds Great" accordion, back in the 60s. It...

I have previously linked to a work of genius from 1915 (I was thinking 1908 before, for some undoubtedly persuasive at the time reason),...

. It's been quite a semester. I took a sociology class and did okay, and at the same time, I took a figure drawing class (okay, not sim...

Back in 1992, Jerry Beck sent out a survey that went to various animation people, including members of an animation APA (Amateur Press Asso...

My — our — longtime friend, Cuyler Warnell "Ned" Brooks, Jr., was repairing his roof today, fell off, and has died. Ned was a go...

I awoke, free of consumption and my mortal body, in a rather indefinite place without light or darkness in it. A disembodied voice was ...

. I think that I shall never see A pervert sicker than a tree. A tree that squats on Nature's breast And spews its seed upon her ch...

I was fairly relaxed that morning, just lying in. Nowhere I had to go that early in the day, nobody expected anything from me. I wasn't...

This, to me, is proof that P.J. O'Rourke used to be funny, and not just when he was a commie agitator thinking of ways to put tits in th...

Overanalysis, based on the stuff I've written on my copy of the music. Unlike a lot of pieces, where I've written just a coup...

I first became aware of Liszt's piano sonata right around my brief stint as a maid at Holiday Inn. I remember listening to Slobodyanik...

UPDATED! Somebody posted a full-color version of the cartoon in Feb, 2017, and I am now linking to their YouTube of it. See? I used ...

. A gigantic, bronzed statue of a dame, Gleaming limbs 'neath 'lectric sunlamp tanned; Below yon giant lamppost, see her stand— ...

. "A recent study by the Food and Drug Administration reveals that over 90% of all alcoholics started with beer. The yellow-ish colore...

. This has been festering in my head for a while. THE OLD COLOSSUS I met a human from a time-lost land Who said: “A woman, bronze, wit...

It's a long one this time! . ALEXANDER BUMSTEAD No disrespect to Dad, of course, but I never really understood Why Mom insiste...

It's Ben Light again (see also January 11, 2009)! Last time we had the science fiction utopian tale of the scientific robot man. This t...

. from January 26, 2001 (quoting myself): I've been reading Marlowe lately. Great stuff. Nobody could begin a story like him: For ...

RIP HAYWIRE Sweet Mother Macreedy! I hate to disappoint you, But if you’re here for a tearful admission  Of my gnawing fears and secr...