A little Halloween music for you to set the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QS0XfAQKM I can't believe this video is now ten years old. I keep meaning to make more like it, but don't find the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urajx_xCu8U The Jason Voorhees theme song, courtesy of the one and only Alice Cooper. (and all I'll say is that time … Continue reading Halloween Music
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Friday Flotsam: 5th Century Italy, Manga, and Election Songs
1. Lately I've been learning some about the 5th-7th century in Italy, which is really a criminally under-discussed time period. Most popular histories more or less just jump from "sack of Rome" to "Dark Ages," as if nothing happened in between. But boy, did it ever! Like how we have a rare instance of one … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: 5th Century Italy, Manga, and Election Songs
Friday Flotsam: Melancholy and Random Thoughts
1. I had my first teacher meetings this week. Next week starts classes, though with shortened days. 2. In a rather melancholy mood for one reason or another. 3. Reading Dickens, I occasionally stumble across moments that show how masterfully understated he could be, when he took the trouble. Most of the time, when he … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Melancholy and Random Thoughts
Friday Flotsam: ‘Short Circuit’, Sick, More Economics, and Lent
1. My tastes have been skewed in a 1980s direction lately. This week's movie night was Short Circuit (at least most of it; the copy I watched had a section missing that I couldn't find elsewhere, between when the jerk boyfriend shows up and the fight with the other three drones), about a military robot … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: ‘Short Circuit’, Sick, More Economics, and Lent
Poem – “Piano Man”
It's nine o'clock on a SaturdayThe regular crowd shuffles inThere's an old man sittin' next to meMakin' love to his tonic and gin He says, "Son can you play me a memory?I'm not really sure how it goesBut it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it completeWhen I wore a younger man's clothes" La, … Continue reading Poem – “Piano Man”
Poem – “No Way to Stop It”
Elsa:You dear, attractive, dewy-eyed idealist—Today you have to learn to be a realist! Max:You may be bent on doing deeds of derring-do,But up against a shark what can a herring do? Elsa:Be wise, compromise! Captain:Compromise and be wise. Elsa:Let them think you’re on their side,Be noncommital. Captain:I will not bow my head to the men … Continue reading Poem – “No Way to Stop It”
In Flanders Fields
For Armistice Day / Veterans Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmMqZlLFVc
Disney Columbus: “How Far I’ll Go”
Something I've had an idea for for a while: a version of How Far I'll Go from Moana, but sung by Christopher Columbus: I’ve been staringAt the edge of the waterLong as I can rememberNever really knowing why. I seeThe whole world begin to totterBut I come back to the waterNo matter what else I … Continue reading Disney Columbus: “How Far I’ll Go”
Columbus Day Post
Once again, behold the Admiral's response to his critics And some suitable music (I haven't heard anything good about the film itself, but the music is great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26dlYEzOtog&t=929s
“When You’re Overqualified for the Job”
I started laughing about halfway through this and couldn't stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg "Can anyone here play the drums? I mean, someone good!" Apparently (such is the grapevine of the internet), the gentleman inside the costume is named Nyango Star, and, as a matter of fact, doing...what he does here is precisely his specialty. I love niche … Continue reading “When You’re Overqualified for the Job”
Serpent's Den 