2:30 minutes of animated butterflies and dragonflies. Well worth your two minutes.
1. I tried to post a movie a long time ago, The Bat (epic fail).
2. I saw an advert for a book in the 100 years ago today New York Times called When A Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart.
3. I thought Hmm, that looks like interesting... I checked gutenberg.org, and there it was/is.
4. Also in her list of books was a title I recognized, The Bat.
5. I thought, could that be the same story-line of that movie, The Bat, I tried to post so long ago? It was! I had no idea The Bat was based on a book.
Aside: Agnes Moorehead is one of my favorite actresses and she's way under-appreciated. She was such a good actress I feel badly that she's only remembered for her campy role as Endora. She was in an episode of the Twilight Zone called THE INVADERS that CREEPED ME OUT when I was a kid. CREEPED ME OUT, but I remember even at such a young age thinking she's a marvelous actress to pull that role off.
Oh My. LIFT!? Just what is that supposed to mean, lift?
December 4, 1939 Life magazine ad.
The holidays are in full effect, so tell us: What's your favorite holiday song? Bonus points if you share it with us!
EDIT 2: As I went through my collection of Christmas Carols I was going to post Sleigh Ride, by the Ventures and then I saw this and had an Aha moment and this is the one - Santa Claus by Thee Headcoatees:
EDIT: I take back my answer, first I almost posted Sinterklaas Kapoentje, then decided on "The Misers" but I re-decided, and I really hate to admit it as I stopped liking REM years ago, but Christmas Griping has to be the best Christmas Carol ever....I am a big fan of the MR. MISER brothers...
One hundred years ago today the fastest pacing race horse of the day, DAN PATCH, ran his last race. Dan was fleet footed and quick as hell. You can watch his story - The Great Dan Patch at the Internet Archive.
Learn more about Dan at the Dan Patch Historical Society.
Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. When are you planning on beginning your holiday shopping?
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Never... I'll be visiting Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping (formerly known as the Church of Stop Shopping) and Buy Nothing Christmas instead...
Wow. The title of this book is too long for blog header title...
Letters from a cat: published by her mistress for the benefit of all cats and the amusement of little children (Helen Hunt Jackson: 1880, c1879).
but the printing was pretty bad, and they were signed by
Pussy's name ; and my mamma always
looked very mysterious when I asked about
them, as if there were some very great
secret about it all ; so that until I grew
to be a big girl, I never doubted but that
Pussy printed them all alone by herself,
after dark.
I haven't read it yet, I did leaf through it yesterday and was so enchanted, but I didn't have the time to actually read it, but now it's first on my list
