Archive for December, 2005

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Two Things

December 10th, 2005

Two things tonight. I finally finished the little site dedicated to our California Sun ‘n Sand Vacation from October 2005. Follow us as we journey to Huntington Beach, Anaheim and points West!
Also, a TV tip. For those with access to the BBC America network, check out Creature Comforts. This series was created by Aardman Studios […]

Busby Berkeley Dreams

December 9th, 2005

Specs on the forthcoming Busby Berkeley DVD box, due in March from Warner Home Video. In addition to the films 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 and 1935, Footlight Parade, and Dames, each disc will have new featurettes and vintage shorts. What delights me the most about this set is that they’re including those insufferably […]

Notes and Comments

December 9th, 2005

Weblog maintenance note: I installed a plugin called EmailWhitelister which catalogs regular commenters so their fine observations will instantly show up, instead of having to wait for my approval. I tested it on Safari and it seemed fine. On Mozilla, it goes through a weird behavior that makes it look like the comment disappeared while […]

Weblogs of Note

December 8th, 2005

“Matt, when is the blogroll returning?” is a question I’m asked often around here (okay, nobody’s ever asked that question). I can only answer vaguely that it will be back someday, on its very own page. Whenever that day comes, I will have to add these other ones that have taken my fancy recently:

a sampler […]

Sketches: Tourists at Disneyland

December 7th, 2005

Last October when we took a vacation in the L.A. area, I brought along the digital camera. It went unused much of the time, but the few pictures that were taken will appear online sometime soon. “Take a trip, make the website several months later” has, after all, become something of a tradition here in […]

Gruesome Twosome: Bad Santa Edition

December 6th, 2005

Lenny Dee: “Mister Santa”
LP: Happy Holi-Dee, c.1961
Gisele MacKenzie: “Too Fat for the Chimney”
LP: Christmas with Gisele, 1957
These two frisky odes to Santa Claus came from a compilation I received five years ago from Vern Stoltz, author of the late thrifting ‘zine Cannot Become Obsolete. Organist Lenny Dee’s “Mr. Sandman” rewrite is utterly charming with a […]

It’s An Honor To Be Nominated

December 4th, 2005

Aw, gee … scrubbles.net has been named as a finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards, in the Best Blog Design category. Thanks to whomever got it there. Actually, I can only claim half-credit on this weblog’s design. It’s basically an out-of-the-box Movable Type template that underwent a few tweaks to make it look less, eh, […]

Very Scarry Christmas

December 3rd, 2005

An interesting flickr set contrasts the 1963 and 1991 editions of Richard Scarry’s The Best Word Book Ever. In the publisher’s efforts at appearing more P.C., the book became just a little dumber and more condescending. And so it goes.

Studying the wonderful Scarry illustrations in The Animals’ Merry Christmas is one of my favorite childhood […]

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