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Serious dinosaurs
These are serious dinosaurs--no dorky dinos here. From my boxes of dinosaur toys. Yes, these dinos are serious, in contrast to the occasional caption. Well, as serious as made-in-Hong-Kong and...
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Dinosaurs in Space!
Dinosaurs in space!! Only at MY(P)WHAE!! Dig in and enjoy!! Why am I writing like this!! I don't know!!Dinos, non-dinos, spaceships, robots, dino-quartets, used rocketships, and a host of fake...
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I... what??
The classic pin-the-fox's-tail-on-the-gingerbread-man game. Definitely a favorite from my youth. Yours?Lee
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Today's sick and sorry joke--Windstream DSL
Windstream DSL--the closest thing to having none at all. Remember dial-up download times? Triple those, and you have some concept of Windstream DSL performance, to the extent that Windstream DSL...
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Dinos meet Dracula!
So, I am back with more Halloween-dinosaur images. Today's set of dino funnies features dinosaurs from my collection as they interact with Count Dracula, Frankenstein (a.k.a., the Frankenstein...
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Music for "Dinos Meet Dracula"
And here's the music I promised for the "Dinos Meet Dracula" post. I wrote this around 1993, and I'm repurposing it for this post, having already reused it in my Burroughs Suite. So, I guess I'm...
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Spooky art for Halloween--A Deep Sea Dream (1887)
This wonderful, spooky woodcut (?) comes from an 1887 Chit Chat annual And I've always wanted to type "...from a 1887 Chit Chat annual." Chit Chat was one of D. Lothrop Co.'s children's...
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Halloween keeps on comin'.
MSNBC's ratings have "hit one of the deepest skids in" the network's history, says the New York Times. I can sum up the reason for this dip with five letters: MSNBC. I say this as a once-faithful...
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Not a new concept, apparently...
The Walk-a-Matic, from a 1967 Sunset House catalog.Lee
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Two terrifying 1967 ads for our Halloween!
Ready to be terrified? I hope so.From the same Sunset House catalog that gave us the "Walk-a-Matic" ad, here are two horrifying products guaranteed to, well, horrify. Not sure which is the scarier of...
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The Magic Pianist (1927)
A fun collection containing the kind of material found in silent movie music folios. From 1927. I don't remember where I bought it.Lee
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Halloween music by Lee, 2014
These Lee originals are all from 2009 or earlier. In fact, Godzilla Rag is from 1993. Most of these were step-recorded, which means I cheated. The first and fifth tracks are piled with Magix...
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Happy Halloween!
Oh, wait--Halloween was yesterday. Oh, well. It's the SPIRIT that counts! (Buwa-ha-haaa!)This ad is from 1966. I strongly suspect that the "7 amazing plant creatures" advertised above were, in...
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Take our electorate--please!
Americans, tired of "gridlock," have done the logical thing by voting into total power a party which has loudly, and quite publicly, vowed to bring down the President by any means possible. (Or, no...
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Wow! The impossible has happened.
It's news enough when Google gives us a Doodle that's not stupid--it's universe-rattling news when Google gives us one that's charming and clever. Am I dreaming? Everything about their Vet's Day...
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No, our modern image of Santa Claus did not originate with Coca-Cola in 1931
Snopes has an excellent piece debunking the ridiculous myth that Coca-Cola invented our modern image of Santa Claus, but I thought I'd add to it with an assortment of pre-Coca-Cola images that show a...
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Another Santa assortment from the late 19th century
So, Coca-Cola came up with the fat, jolly, human-looking Santa in 1931, eh? Riiiight. In fact, here's our man in a Dec. 11, 1884 Youth's Companion ad, dropping Waterbury pocket watches onto the Earth...
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