Things Turned End-Over-End
[From this page, which includes a YouTube tour of the interior: "The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski... The house is also...
View Article$25 Worth of Hallmark Cards Just Turned to Ashes in My Hands
Videographer, filmmaker, camera operator, whatever you want to call him, Jared Foster makes some very sweet video-based “family Christmas cards.” Here’s his first, from a couple of years ago (over the...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2010 ed.)
Just the latest in an annual series… All I’m going to do for the music portion here, as before, is just add ten songs (and pray that, over time, I won’t blow the little WordPress audio-player thingie...
View ArticleHolidays — Bloody, Cutthroat Holidays
[Note: I don't know any of the people in the above image (click on it to see it where I first did, in its original form). I found this Santa quite unnerving, though.] The RAMH regular who goes by the...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2011 ed.)
[Image (click to enlarge) from xkcd, where its little pop-up title reads, "An 'American tradition' is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice" -- ha!] Today’s mid-week music break continues an...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2012 ed.)
[Image: "Christmas on the Moon" (1970), recorded -- perhaps even written -- by four-year-old Troy Hess] Welcome to this year’s installment of what’s become an annual series here. Once again, I’ve...
View ArticleHoliday Traditions: “The Christmas Date”
[Scene from A Christmas Story. The Peking duck no longer smiles at the Old Man.] In 1993, The then Missus-Eventually-To-Be and I went on our first one of these, and we’ve done so every December 23rd...
View ArticleGobsmacked by Natural History
[Image: Cover of The Golden Treasury of Natural History, by Bertha Morris Parker. Colors tinkered with a little to match its present look as closely as possible.] A holiday, a small bedroom in a small...
View ArticleAn E-Publishing Experiment (2): Short Holiday Reading for Under a Buck
Moving right along… So I’ve had a short story for sale for a week so far, as described in this post. (The book itself can be found on Amazon.com; that’s the Amazon US link, although it’s also available...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2013 ed.)
[Video: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (with She Her & I), "All I Want for Christmas..." See note at the bottom of this post for more information.] As in every year beginning in 2008, I’ve added ten songs...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2014 ed.)
[Video: note the bass with a truncated bottom. It’s called a Czech-Ease road bass, sold (and apparently designed) by one David Gage of New York. As for the performance, lauded by Penn Jillette as “a...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2015 Ed.)
[Video: Anaïs Mitchell, “Song of the Magi”: a subtly subversive “Christmas carol” if I’ve ever heard one. (Lyrics)] Want to visit the pages for earlier playlists, which include videos, other songs,...
View ArticleWinter’s First Week
A bit of a changeup from the usual Friday routine here. Let’s start with a couple of things not from whiskey river (because, well, why not)… ...a song for winter PlayStop Popout X …and: Christmas...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2016 Ed.)
[Video: “The Wexford Carol,” performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Kraus.] Want to visit the pages for earlier playlists, which include videos, other songs, and some background material not in the...
View ArticleMidweek Music Break: I Moderni, “Carol of the Bells”
[Video: “Carol of the Bells,” by I Moderni] I Moderni — Italian for “The Modern” — was at the time they made this video an a-capella quartet who placed second in the fifth (2011) season of the Italian...
View ArticleName Time
[Image: “La Otra Navidad (The Other Christmas),” by Oiluj Samall Zeid; found on Flickr and used here under a Creative Commons license. The site is a mausoleum in León, Spain, commemorating Republicans...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2017 Ed.)
[Video: Wikipedia describes Gayla Peevey as “a former singer and child star from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.” Her first performance of of “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is the one which opens this...
View ArticleGrace at a Distance, Grace Close at Hand — But Grace
[Image: “Winter Forest Illustration,” by Jim Basa. (Found it on Pexels — thanks! — and used here in reduced scale; the thing is huge.)] From whiskey river: Are you willing to forget what you have done...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2018 Ed.)
[Video: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, and the Steep Canyon Rangers, “The Strangest Christmas Yet.” You can pop open a transcript of the lyrics here.] Want to visit the pages for earlier playlists,...
View ArticleA Quirky Eclectic Christmas Mix (2019 Ed.)
[Video: “Santa Claus Is Watching You,” by Ray Stevens. (Lyrics here and elsewhere.) Among its charms, the song has Santa’s sleigh towed not by eight, but by about two dozen reindeer, not all of them...
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