Divers and Sundry

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 film noir starring Gene Kelley against type as the bad guy and Deanna Durbin as his wronged wife. Robert Siodma...

I love a good movie. I even love some bad movies. We spend many a happy hour here with a hot cup of tea or coffee in front of a DVD, and th...

You and Your Sister : by Chris Bell , who died 36 years ago (on the 27th). He was born here in Memphis and is buried in Bartlett, a Memp...

Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous restaurant has a long and storied past and is a Memphis mainstay. We are spoiled for choice where BBQ is co...

Alias Boston Blackie is a 1942 film about a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes on Christmas eve. Paul Fix has a part in this. There...

Oh, how I've loved this since it first came out back in 2006 (I think): Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton . The joy never gets ...

according to the book of Luke, chapter 2 (RSV): In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled....

Old Christmas by Washington Irving is a collection of five writings on Christmas gone by, the quaint traditions of English celebration as...

We have a practice of tradition-accumulation. We do something, like it, then declare it a "new tradition". One that's continu...

Born Under a Bad Sign : as performed by by Albert King in 1981. King died 22 years ago yesterday of a heart attack. He had moved to Mem...

Murder for Christmas is a 1982 book of 26 short story mysteries edited by Thomas Godfrey and illustrated by Gahan Wilson . There's a w...

I, the Jury is a 1953 film based on a Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer book. It's the first filmed adaptation of a Hammer novel. Biff Elliot...

Isn't the main entrance to The Dixon gallery festive? Coming up towards the entrance are several signs of holiday cheer. The int...

The Man with the Load of Mischief is a 1981 detective novel by Martha Grimes and is first in the Richard Jury series, which is ongoing an...

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a 1942 film, directed by William Keighley. Monty Woolley (who was the professor in The Bishop's Wife ) st...

This is the part of Dickens' A Christmas Carol after Scrooge's conversion when he's trying to make amends. He tells his employe...

Respect Yourself : The Staples Singers - Respect Yourself from Soul Train from Domo on Vimeo . by "Pops" Staples , who ...

A Christmas Accident is a 1912 silent short. Sweet. Filled with the spirit of the season. via Youtube:

I'll Be Seeing You is a 1944 film that takes place during the Christmas holidays. It's directed by William Dieterle and stars Josep...

The Daughter and I recently went to the Pink Palace Museum to go through the Enchanted Forest. When I was a child back in the 1960s, this ...