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Here you will find a brief description of my blog and links to my other social medias.

Laurel Zito Blogging Leave a comment March 20, 2023March 23, 2023 1 Minute

Lucille Garrard Doll Artist

Lucille Garrard Doll Artist 1983 Rainy Day and Sunny Day Dolls

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 2 Minutes

A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro

In the story “A Village After Dark” by Kazuo Ishiguro a man comes back to the village where he used to live but nothing is the same.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment February 4, 2023 2 Minutes

Harold Brodkey New Yorker Digital Subscription

I can not read “Dying An Update” on the New Yorker Digital Subscription by Harold Brodkey.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, Literature Leave a comment February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 3 Minutes

My Life of Crime

My Life of Crime by The Psychedelic Furs 1984 New York Remix.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, music Leave a comment February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 2 Minutes

Delmore Schwartz and Jean Stafford

“Children are never bored on Sundays” by Jean Stafford is a fictional story about a woman who goes to the Metropolitan Art Museum in Manhattan. I take a deeper look into the character Eisenberg who was based on poet Delmore Schwartz.

Laurel Zito Literature, poems Leave a comment February 1, 2023February 2, 2023 6 Minutes

Geraldine Largay Conspiracy

Was the disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail really a disappearance or was it a conspiracy?

Laurel Zito Missing Lost People Leave a comment January 30, 2023 6 Minutes

Creating a Habitat for Wildlife

This post is about what needs to be done to restore habit land for animals, plants, birds.

Laurel Zito Environmentalism, Gardening Leave a comment December 26, 2022March 21, 2023 12 Minutes

Yog-Sothoth Review

I look at a dipiction of Yog-Sothoth from the book The Gods of HP Lovecraft by Aaron J. French.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment December 19, 2022 3 Minutes

Big Butter From the Udder

An experimental band called Big Butter. Unfortunately they are impossible to find online for listening, and have no Wikipedia. There is an article from the LA Weekly.

Laurel Zito lost songs, music Leave a comment December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 1 Minute

The Great Pyramid Monument

A book review of Solution 9: The Great Pyramid Book

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Internet Culture, Literature Leave a comment December 11, 2022 3 Minutes

What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man by Art Garfunkel

Book Review: Art Garfunkel Biography is more like a magazine article that will be recycled eventually and forgotten. This book is not a keeper.

Laurel Zito 70s music, Book Reviews, history, Internet Culture Leave a comment November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 3 Minutes

Sandra Payne: A World of Shine

Barrett Barrera Projects Art Gallery is located in St. Louis. I hope this will be the first in a series of looks at local artists. Sandra Payne died before her first exhibit could come to fruition.

Laurel Zito Art and Craft, Modern Art, The 70s Leave a comment November 17, 2022 1 Minute

Orange Juice with Vitamin C from The Florida Sunshine Tree

The Florida Sunshine Tree Commercial was song by Anita Bryant and I did not even know she was a singer. Orange Juice with vitamin C from The Florida Sunshine Tree.

Laurel Zito 70s music, lost songs, music, The 70s Leave a comment November 17, 2022 1 Minute

Five Years: Briefwechsel Book of Letters

Book Analysis annotations and translations

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Internet Culture, Literature Leave a comment November 15, 2022November 28, 2022 24 Minutes

Marie Antoinette The Rose of Versailles Doll by Asahi Toys

I have collected both types of The Rose of Versailles Doll by Asahi Toys by from the late 70s.

Laurel Zito anime, dolls, The 70s, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment November 2, 2022February 26, 2023 5 Minutes

Junky and Queer Characters and Joan

The books Junky and Queer by William S. Burroughs have a lot of interesting characters. Someone should create character list to keep track of them.

Laurel Zito Burroughs and Friends Leave a comment September 21, 2022September 25, 2022 4 Minutes

Tumblr Death Moon Youtube

This Moon Youtube Video tells about a scam Tumblr convention. It makes me want to delete my Tumblr account.

Laurel Zito Blogging, Internet Culture Leave a comment September 11, 2022 2 Minutes

Against Nature Book Review

Against Nature is a book about a man's desire for total isolation. Of course, it did not work out. No man is an island. Read my review after you have read the book first, as it contains spoilers.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, history, Literature Leave a comment September 6, 2022 5 Minutes

Email from WordPress

Email from wordpress indicates I don't own this domain name from Anne Frank?

Laurel Zito Blogging, Internet Culture Leave a comment September 1, 2022September 1, 2022 3 Minutes

Lunar Park Book Review

I thought at first I Lunar Park was better then Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis's first novel), but when it morphed into a horror novel it became unenjoyable.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment August 21, 2022August 21, 2022 3 Minutes

Progress Report Land Restoration

Removing aggressive and non native trees to help the good native trees.

Laurel Zito Environmentalism Leave a comment August 6, 2022March 19, 2023 1 Minute

Literary Magazines

The New Yorker and The Paris Review Ideas for increasing readership of literary magazines.

Laurel Zito Literature Leave a comment July 27, 2022 3 Minutes

Clearing Native Land of Invasive Non Native Plants

Clearing out native land to create a healthy environment for plants animals and pollinators I am updating my progress which so far is not much.

Laurel Zito Environmentalism, Gardening Leave a comment July 10, 2022March 22, 2023 4 Minutes

Jefferson City Doll Club

The Jefferson City Fashion Doll Club features Modern Dolls from 1960 onwards up to the newest dolls of Today.

Laurel Zito dolls, Internet Culture Leave a comment June 14, 2022 1 Minute

The Runaways and Cherie Currie Book Review

My impressions after reading and listening to the “Neon Angel Book”. I found the book to have a serious creditability issue. I never knew who the Runaways were at the time in which they were famous.

Laurel Zito 70s music, Book Reviews Leave a comment February 2, 2022February 9, 2022 11 Minutes

Lost in the Valley of Death: Book Review

Book Review Harley Rustad’s , “Lost in the Valley of Death.” Justin Alexander Shetler disappeared in India in 2016 while on a spiritual quest.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews Leave a comment January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 2 Minutes

Juana Leno Pig Acoma Pottery

Juana Leno was born and lived in Acoma Pueblo where she was a respected pottery master. Did she make this pig?

Laurel Zito Art and Craft Leave a comment November 25, 2021November 27, 2021 1 Minute

Like his namesake Mr. Gone is Gone

What happened to the actor who played Mr. Gone in the animated series The Maxx by Sam Kieth. What does The Maxx have in common with The Prisoner?

Laurel Zito TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment November 8, 2021November 20, 2022 4 Minutes

Caffeine

I love the feeling of drinking coffee or tea but ultimately there is a price to pay.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Burroughs and Friends Leave a comment July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 2 Minutes

Malibu P.J.

Repo Malibu P.J. has been released but do I want to buy her?

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment July 15, 2021November 8, 2021 1 Minute

Oblivion Book Review

I found an essay by author Andrew Altschul on the story “The Suffering Channel” from the Book Oblivion by David Foster Wallace and it inspired me to take the essay a little bit farther with extrapolation.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, David Foster Wallace, Literature, Writers who committed suicide Leave a comment July 1, 2021July 2, 2021 6 Minutes

Bose Hearphones

Why did they stop making Bose Hearphones? They were better than hearing aids.

Laurel Zito Blogging Leave a comment June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 2 Minutes

Parodies Can Exceed The Original Song

These songs are not really song parodies., They were imitations which exceeded the singer’s original material. The song are “Long Cool Woman” and “Stuck In The Middle.”

Laurel Zito music Leave a comment June 19, 2021June 19, 2021 3 Minutes

Why did Brad Delp Commit Suicide?

We look at the cause of Brad Delp’s suicide and consider the words in his note.

Laurel Zito music, Twin Peaks Leave a comment June 9, 2021 1 Minute

Audible Returns

Today I got banned from Audible Returns for 6 months in spite of being promised unlimited reviews book younger then one year. Audible invented this return policy and now they blame me for using it. How much time does one have to read and listen to books anyway in the modern age?

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, Literature Leave a comment May 26, 2021November 20, 2022 7 Minutes

Buttercup Ivy

We consider how difficult it is grow buttercup ivy because it can not take the cold.

Laurel Zito Gardening Leave a comment May 23, 2021June 10, 2021 1 Minute

Composting with Coffee Grounds

In 2015 Starbucks was giving away coffee grounds. They stopped because of Covid. Hopefully they will start up again. How to keep composting without coffee grounds.

Laurel Zito Gardening, Internet Culture Leave a comment May 22, 2021May 28, 2021 3 Minutes

Track Listing for Untitled

Track Listing for Woodleaf’s latest musical creation.

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories Leave a comment May 6, 2021July 10, 2021 1 Minute

Hunter Toys

Not much is known about the Hunter Doll Company. This is what I have on them.

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment April 19, 2021 1 Minute

Integrity Fashion Dolls

Integrity Fashion Dolls. There is no good explanation of these dolls anywhere online, so I had to make up these ideas by looking at the lines of dolls.

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment April 9, 2021June 10, 2022 10 Minutes

Warhol by Blake Gopnik

My thoughts on the Andy Warhol Biography by Blake Gopnik titled "Warhol".

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature, Modern Art Leave a comment April 1, 2021April 14, 2021 6 Minutes

Dedo Sutton Doll

These early Blythe type dolls are from the 50s and feature moving eyes.

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment March 20, 2021March 20, 2021 1 Minute

Dime Store Dolls

Dime Store Dolls vs. Dress Me Dolls how are they different? What are Souvenir Dolls? What about Pee Wees and Trolls?

Laurel Zito Art and Craft, dolls, The 70s Leave a comment March 17, 2021April 9, 2021 3 Minutes

Erin Moran Death Mystery

Erin Moran was a 70’s TV Star on the Show Happy Days which I watched as a child in afternoon reruns. But what was her cause of death?

Laurel Zito Blogging, Internet Culture, The 70s, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment March 6, 2021April 24, 2021 4 Minutes

Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean considered what they were and what they could have been. Jan and Dan as the Monkees? Jan and Dean as The Beatles? Psychedelic Jan and Dean?

Laurel Zito music, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment February 28, 2021March 1, 2021 8 Minutes

Shannen Doherty Badass Book Review

Shannen Doherty Book Badass is a Self Help Book published in 2010 and this is my review of it. Doherty played the iconic role of Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment February 25, 2021May 1, 2022 3 Minutes

Living In The Past

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s Book Review

Laurel Zito Art and Craft, Book Reviews, Literature, The 70s Leave a comment February 21, 2021March 11, 2021 4 Minutes

Argument Against Tourism

I love to see new places. I wish to see as many places as possible before I die. But there is an argument against tourism.

Laurel Zito Blogging, history 1 Comment February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 1 Minute

Worse Plastic Surgery List

My list of the worse plastic surgeries undergone by celebrities.

Laurel Zito Blogging Leave a comment February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 2 Minutes

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