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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Reprieve for Pharmacy Technicians in Michigan

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In response to concerns about the ability of pharmacies to resolve conflicts with outstanding licensing applications prior to June 30, th...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Elbert Hubbard Dissects Dr. Kellogg and C. W. Post, ca 1905

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Elbert Hubbard received fleeting mention in the Winsor McCay film, "Sinking of the Lusitania," as one of the passengers on that i...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Remembering Phil Austin (1941-2015)

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A founding member of The Firesign Theater, Phil Austin passed away this week.  I had the good fortune to work with another member of the gr...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Stargate through Pennsylvania

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Through the mountain ... horn a-blarin' the whole time! (cc) MMXV The Animating Apothecary  

Gettysburg Ghostly GIF #1

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At dusk, on 14 May 2015 --- near Devil's Den --- five flash photos over 60 seconds --- dusty or daemonic?  OooOoOooooh! (cc) MMXV T...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Gettysburg Visit from 1999

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These home movie clips keep falling from the shelf, so one is moved to do something with them.  And then, there are those brown wax cylinde...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

DOS Test loop from 1997 - or was it 1998? Where did those notes go....

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A weekend of nudging crumbling and grumbling Genlocks and VHS duplications.  And some hand-scanned material.... so many formats ago... A...

Editing Keaton Exercise - Doughboys (1930)

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Keaton at MGM is one lesson after another in how that venerable studio just couldn't fathom comedy and comic timing.  So many things fr...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

"Battle Creek" - the TV series - Begins In Earnest

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The locals in Battle Creek who like to complain about, well, everything, were certain that this series would be a hash job on this once-...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Some Shameless Self Promotion

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It's a slow news day at some newsletters, and a pharmacist who also makes the occasional animated film makes for good filler. Here...
Monday, December 29, 2014

An Observation on Child Rearing - March, 1849

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Before scanners or digital cameras, heck, before DOS 6.0, this typing exercise came from a newspaper clipping found in a moldy scrapbook at...

Skit for the Closing of the "San" after 127 Years in Battle Creek

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I have become rather proficient at closing pharmacies over the years, and when I had the chance to work at Dr. Kellogg's Sanitarium in ...

Text to Dr. Kellogg's "Health Ladder" (1923)

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In 1923, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of the Battle Creek Sanitarium released a five-record set of 78rpm records through Columbia.  With them...