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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Out Like a Lamb, My Eye!

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A Bedtime Story for Sleepy Children (so it doesn't matter what you tell them)   With more stories at Amazon -  https://www.amazon.com/...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Colorizing the Archives

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(c) 2020 The Animating Apothecary (c) 2020 The Animating Apothecary (c) 2020 The Animating Apothecary (c) 2020 The Animati...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Our Beautiful Great Grandmother Eva Thompson

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From a 19th century family album, ranging 1860s-1890s.  She was fraternal twin to Emma, daughter to James and Margaret, and one of five d...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

New Michigan Pharmacist Regulations - Increased Authority (and Liability)

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In accordance to  Executive Order 2020-25 , pharmacists are authorized to:   Dispense 60-day emergency refills of any non-controlled ...

Not for the Squeamish - or perhaps, for those in need of a bit of squeam...

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Naturally, once the jpgs were mastered, the software deleted all the color layer files... but, after all, that's why Thursdays were in...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

In Case I Miss Someone's Birthday

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Birthdays come every year, if we're lucky, and I'm notorious in forgetting them all, including mine.  This year, I made a resolutio...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Gertrude Lawrence - She's a STAR!

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A couple of tunes sung by Gertrude Lawrence, recorded for Victor during the run of "Oh Kay!" in 1926.  She originated the role f...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

CoVid from the Surreal City Perspective - continuing

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Two in Michigan now, and the students at Kalamazoo's WMU return tomorrow from their spring break, bringing who knows what in the meanti...
Monday, March 09, 2020

CoVid-19 - loving all that winning... (3-9-2020, 7:35pm)

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Another non-info presser about CoVid-19 just extruded from the TV a few minutes ago, more concerned with the stock market than health gui...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

It's Linear Acceleration Time! - The SEQUEL - updated 3-24-2020

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PROLOGUE Three weeks after an all clear in the left ocular adnexa, there appeared a familiar discoloration in the right eye.  A strip o...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2020

India, India, India....

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FUN FACT: In each square kilometer of India, there are 464 people. India has reported a total of 6 CoVid-19 cases, with 3 already listed as...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

So Indiana is the Gold Standard for Healthcare?

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I'm no big fan of UnitedHealth, but they do keep statistics. And they do make overall standings of the states available for comparison...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

ASIFA Central Notes - 22 February 2020

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So IAD is coming in October, we have up to 15 international participants, a deadline of 1 June 2020, and what are the rambling notes to tha...

Turntable fun with Audio Technica

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The 1923 acoustic Victor recording of Alfred Cortot performing Weber's  "Invitation to the Waltz" seemed nearly incomprehensi...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Because EVERY DAY is McCay Day!

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Found an Edison recording from 1909 with selections from the operetta "Little Nemo" by Victor Herbert's.  Of course it just H...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Hey, I'm trying to sleep here!

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         Well, the latest reverie was me being inserted into an intervention led by Nick Nolte and a Keanu Reeves-ish counselor for a su...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Puttering with Logos ....

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                                                   (c) 2020 The Animating Apothecary Or for the giffies out there....
Monday, February 03, 2020

The Mystery of the Elusive CDs

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Animation for the Ear  (public domain music discussion series) The other thing I have noticed is the challenge in tracking down copyrigh...

My Favorite Columbia Recordings These Days...

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Animation for the Ear  (public domain music discussion series) - with Jim Middleton First of all, what does public domain (PD) look like...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

More Public Domain 78rpm Recording Links on Archive.org

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All the links take you to Archive.org, all are from the Animating Apothecary archive, built using Audacity as it fights with Windows 10.  A...