Lemurian Congress

I live with a delightfully strange cat. People have asked me how Muffet and I have been getting along, and the best short answer I can give...

I've never had a sense of human history; other than Geography, History was the class I was LEAST interested in during school. But now I...

CHILD: So you don't want a hamster. FATHER: No I don't. CHILD: Have you ever thought that a hamster might save your life? I'd li...

I love this movie , and somehow this scene makes me happiest of all!

The P. Lorillard Company advertised these "little cigars" with an amusing ad campaign. While the name "Between the Acts"...

This makes me laugh and laugh and laugh: It's from season two, episode four of " Look Around You ," a bizarre British spoof of...

"Guestroom Books" by Newman Levy (The New Yorker, April 12, 1930). Beside my chaste and downy cot There stands a goodly number Of...

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...

Reading old issues of The New Yorker clarifies a lot of things about life in the '20s and '30s, but it also raises new mysteries. It...

Here's an excerpt from a documentary that Schnapps and I were in many years ago! Behind the Scenes Featurette I usually take a short nap...

Walking home from breakfast this morning, I passed a small boy on a crazy carpet trying to slide UP the bare sidewalk of Bluevale hill. He...

Drive safe! Don't trip over your tripods!

Since I didn't do anything last night except schlump around the house, I am not currently dealing with a hangover or the inevitable post...

The state of burlesque occasionally appears in the pages of the old New Yorker, and every few years the reporters mention Minsky's . The...

Everybody needs a great cartoon on a Friday morning. (The cartoon -- from December 28, 1929 -- by Leonard Dove, a frequent contributor of co...

"Oh the rent--the rent! What about my career !" (It's by William Crawford Galbraith, who did a lot of artwork for The New York...

If you've been reading this blog today, you've been wondering what yo-yos have to do with feces . I myself wasn't aware of any ...

During the latter months of 1929, The New Yorker ran a continuing series called "A Voyage to Purilia." Written by Elmer Rice -- a...

Rabbits Have horrid habits; Shad Are pretty bad; Pigeons Have no religions; Bees Expose their knees; Terrapins Parade their sins; Moles Have...