Your mouse pad is boring.

You know it is.

And I know it is.

That's a problem.

However, it is a problem with an easy solution.  

How?

Why?

The answer is that my shop has over SIX HUNDRED (or, if you prefer, over 600) different mouse pads.

Not a bore in the bunch.

Wanna see some?

(as always, note that the watermarks are not on

the actual items, and are only here to protect YOU

from flying monkeys.)

Speaking of flying, ain't this a dilly?

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A 1950s Plymouth Whatziz 88

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a hussy

True hussies are hard to come by.

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From a whole bunch of 1930s Sunday newspaper comics I got an an auction awhile ago: 

Flash Gordon's Dr. Zarkov, in paper doll form

 AND

One of many Jane Arden fashion paperdolls (also once found in the Sunday comics) 

 in my store:

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Dad's old fedora

True fact: My father used to wear these to work.

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1920s Ziegfeld Follies female pulchritude times two

See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products?dp=252154836656836858&pg=1&ps=204?rf=238225004668148127Z

The Tuesday Song of the Week

Suh'm dreamy and romantic...

'Drowning in Your Eyes' - Ephraim Lewis

Tickets, please

Nobody's Fool

What a predictable by-the-numbers flick this was.  Not a single honest moment in the whole 110 minutes.

T is for

TV.

Specifically early 1950s TV.

TV sets, that is.  Not TV shows.

See more, get more here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&st=date_created&dp=0&cg=0&vt=&qs=tv?rf=238225004668148127Z

And then there were nun

Or nuns.

Plural.

Actually, they're all the same nun, who looks to be about age 18.

But who was probably somewhere in her early 20s.

I wonder if she stuck with it

 And if so, I wonder if she's still wearing the habit or what.

Above was a real live nun; following is La Belle Otero (google her) masquerading as a nun.

See more, get more here:  

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&st=date_created&dp=0&cg=0&vt=&qs=nun&pg=1?rf=238225004668148127Z

S is for

Scottie.

Aka Scottie dog, Scottish terrier, Scotch terrier.

Wanna see?

scarves !

print fabric ! 

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jigsaw puzzles !

mugs !

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notecards !

giftbags !

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wallets !

tote bags !

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mousepads !

and ties !

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and ties !

Don't I hand-color good??

and clocks !

I hand-color real good

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As of today there are 208 (!) items in my store with adorable Scottie dogs on 'em.

Have a look see here: https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products?dp=0&qs=scottie&pg=1&ps=204?rf=238225004668148127Z

Keywords for your interest and entertainment: scottie dog gifts, scottie dog presents, scottish terrier gift, Scottish terrier present, scotch terrier gift, scotch terrier present

R is for

RABBIT !!

We have oodles of adorable bunny rabbit-related merch in the store, such as...

magician with his rabbit necktie

magician with his rabbit note card

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fashion bunny print pillow

and equally adorable bunny print gift wrap aka adorable bunny print wrapping paper

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 rabbit reading a story to a little rabbit jigsaw puzzle

 identical twin rabbits reading to identical twin little rabbits mouse pad

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crazy cute dressed bunny doing farm work print bag

 and the same crazy cute dressed bunny on a clock

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cute little girl from the 1920s holding her equally cute rabbit doll, in notebook form

don't I hand-color good?

She's also on a mug !!

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As of today, there are 131 bunny rabbit-related items in my store.  And none of them have the watermark.  As you probably already know, watermarks are only here to protect my audience from flying monkeys.

To see all 131, go here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products?ps=204&st=date_created&dp=0&cg=0&vt=&qs=bunny&pg=1?rf=238225004668148127Z

His name was Lester

Above is his baby picture from 2013.

I met Lester on Ash Wednesday, 2013.  When I exited my car to attend a noon Ash Wednesday service, I was approached by a lady wringing her hands about a kitten crying in the church yard.  

Instantly, I climbed into the church yard, captured the kitten, handed him off to a crossing guard who was on the corner outside the church yard, then climbed out.

I put the kitten in a box in my car.  The car was still warm - at that time of year the heat in my car is ramped up to the high heavens.

When the service was over, there was the kitten still chilling in the box.

I took him home, then took him to the vet to be examined, then named him Lester.

He was always a very very good boy.

A year or two ago, he came down with kidney stones.  After getting treated, he was back to normal.

The stones returned in force three weeks ago.  The vet said only once in his career had he seen a cat with as many stones as Lester had.  

Lester got surgery, but even after a two weeks on pain meds, it was apparent that he was still very uncomfortable.  This past weekend, he stopped eating.  I ran him to the vet on Sunday.  Later that day, I was told that his kidney enzymes (or whatever they're called)  were  waayyy too high.  And yesterday, his kidneys shut down completely.

It's currently 5:32 where I live (Cape May County), and approximately 24 hours ago, Lester crossed the Rainbow Bridge, a little shy of his 5th birthday.

He will be sorely missed.

RIP

I'm somebody with very bad luck, as in

all my favorite actors - the ones that set my gizzard aflutter - have this horrible habit of dying on me.

Raul Julia - 1994

Dennis Farina - 2013

Alan Rickman - 2016

And just a few days ago, on January 15 went this guy:

Peter Wyngarde - 2018

I didn't see him in a whole lot of things - a very memorable spot on The Avengers and another on The Prisoner, and the last 15 minutes of an episode of I Spy.  But he was pretty much the very very hottest hottest hottie ever to appear in a horror movie.  

A very classy, rather intelligent horror movie at that.  Even without his insane deliciousness, it's well worth seeing.

The US title is Burn Witch, Burn.  Original UK title is The Night of the Eagle.

Here's the trailer:

The Tuesday Song of the Week

Put on your Latin dancing shoes !

'Elizabeth' - Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra

Ticket, please

The only thing I remember from The Madness of King George is when Queen Charlotte told some heavily pregnant woman that she had to stand (for what event I forget) and that she should suck it up because Queen Charlotte herself had given birth to fifteen kids.