“I’ve broken my soul!” wailed Egbert, looking left and right for a door in the wall. “I know it. I’ve broken my soul and I shall never be happy again!” The egg had not, as a matter of fact, broken. On the other side of the wall was the garden of the King. Continue reading “QUAINTUPLETS: Egbert’s Soul, Pt. 2”
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I See By Your Outfit
Today’s consideration of fine old jokes takes us to the wild west, and the garment known as chaps. The word is short for chaparreras, which American cowboys shortened to chaps, at first pronounced shaps. They apparently start appearing in tales of the west in the 1830s, and were intended to keep a cowboy’s legsContinue reading “I See By Your Outfit”
Middling Mysteries
If you’ve been here before, you know that one of our chief activities is looking at old postcards to see what we can learn from them (and to see whether I can sell them, but that’s a different issue.) From time to time I run across a card with a joke that has soContinue reading “Middling Mysteries”
QUAINTUPLETS: Egbert’s Soul, Part 1
A power of years ago, but not so far from Fairview, there lived a fool named Egbert. Egbert was a good, honest fellow, understand: a man who grew vegetables on his little farm, went to services of a Sunday, and never fought with his neighbors. He was just not so very clever. Everybody knewContinue reading “QUAINTUPLETS: Egbert’s Soul, Part 1”
Seaside Plus
This was mentioned in our last examination of old postcards featuring round people, but it is largely borne out by this latest acquisition of postcards. These folks DO seem to know how to have a good time. Last time, we discussed gentlemen in their fancy gaudy suits. The ladies, however, tend to goContinue reading “Seaside Plus”
The Big Round Dude
Four years ago or thereabouts, we considered in this space the postcards featuring round people, a race of jolly cartoon characters whose figures paid homage to the globe. A goodly number of postcards with suchlike folk on them have come into my inventory and, looking them over, I noticed something I don’t believe IContinue reading “The Big Round Dude”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 7
Looking back now on the six surviving silent movie versions of A Christmas Carol (there are at least three lost versions), while remembering that two of the six are fragments AND that we are seeing them on a small screen, what did we see? SETTINGS: The 1913 version does the most with exterior scenes.Continue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 7”
FICTION FRIDAY: Midnight Quandary
On the last day of the year, there was a terrible argument in King Sinson’s War Room. He wanted to bring a couple of his allies from the haunted forest to help in the battle planned for the next day against the nether-elves who had been plotting against the kingdom from their lairs beneathContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Midnight Quandary”
Resolving Things
The time approaches once again for making New Year’s Resolutions, that combination of confessional and strategy which will make the impending 365 days a successful quest for happiness and joy (at LEAST until January 3.) As usual, your Uncle Blogsy, being so full of wisdom that he finds it hard to lift his headContinue reading “Resolving Things”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6
There is occasional confusion online between the 1922 “Scrooge” and the 1923 “A Christmas Carol”. Each was made in England, and each was part of a longer series of films based on literature. The Gems of Literature series ranged farther afield in its sources, including Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. If you go huntingContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Silent Supplement 6”
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