Every year I've always gotten one of the advent calendars for my kids so they can do their own counting down till Christmas, now your pets can too.Doggie Treat Christmas Advent CalendarHRTJ8XARU955 Read Full Story

Widower and undertaker 41-year-old Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has seven children. He loves his children very much, but spends little time with them, unable to handle raising them all on his own. The children have had a series of seventeen nannies, whom they systematically drive out; it is a point of pride for them to get rid of each nanny as fast as possible.  Desperate to find another nanny, Cedric heeds the advice of a mysterious voice from the house, which says, "the person you need i... Read Full Story

Batman is a Comic Book Superhero who was introduced in 1939 by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, over the years they also added a few different Batman characters to assist him in his crime fighting along with all the Batman villains who kept them on their toes.  Then in 1943 and 1949,  Colombia Pictures decided to make a television series out of Batman and Robin.  Ever since then there's been numerous animated Batman versions,  as well as the 1966 Adam West/Burt Ward version. ... Read Full Story

Catching Santa right on camera in your very own home might be the perfect gift for any child.  Might also be the perfect way to make sure they behave themself in order to stay on Santa's "good list", well at least until Christmas at least.  Imagine the look of shock on your child's face when you show them how you got a picture of Santa putting the gifts under the tree or him going back up the chimney or him eating the cookies and drinking the milk that they left out for hi... Read Full Story

Christmas is just around the corner and you want your house to look like a Winter Wonderland.  How do you get started with the outdoor Christmas decorations?  By devising a plan first.  Picture in your mind what it is you want people to see as they pass by your home.  Where do you want to put the lights?  What type of light do you want to use?  How many bushes do you have and which ones do you want to put Christmas lights on?  Do you want to use the string l... Read Full Story

Precisely when the first snow globe, also called a waterglobe or snowdome, was made remains unclear, but they appear to date from France during the early 1800s. They may have appeared as a successor to the glass paperweight, which became popular a few years earlier. Snow globes appeared at the Paris Universal Expo in 1878, and by 1879, at least five companies were producing snow globes and selling them throughout Europe. In 1889, a snow globe containing a model of the newly built Eiffel Tower... Read Full Story

In 1956, Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff decided Batman and Robin both needed female counterparts in order to stave off the gay rumors about these characters and voila Batwoman appeared, aka Kathy Kane (issue #233 in Detective Comics) for Batman and then in 1961 Batgirl, aka Betty Kane (issue #139 in the Batman comics) appeared as a sidekick for Batwoman. When Julius Swartz took over as editor both of these Batwoman and Batgirl characters were taken out and were replaced in 1967 by the Barbara G... Read Full Story

The character is often depicted as wearing a domino mask either with a green suit and bowler hat, or a green jumpsuit. A black or purple question mark serves as his visual motif. Since the animated series and the film Batman Forever, Riddler often carries a trick "question mark" cane. Unlike most of the other prominent members of Batman's rogues gallery, the Riddler is not a psychopathic murderer; a large portion of Riddler's crimes are non-violent in nature. Batman's direct conflicts with th... Read Full Story

The Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl made regular appearances in DC comics from 1967 to 1988. The official retirement of Batgirl took place in Batgirl Special #1 (June 1988), which was published a few months after Barbara Gordon's shooting by The Joker in the graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke (March 1988). Editor Kim Yale and comic book author John Ostrander later reinvented Barbara Gordon as Oracle, the premier information broker of the DC Comics Universe and leader of the Birds of Pre... Read Full Story

So you want something new to watch?  Try watching up in the sky maybe.  Last Saturday night (October 17) apparently a number of people saw some unexplainable lights over the falls.   Read more on my lens Travel and Tourism in Niagara Falls. Read Full Story